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Which mobile processor should I choose?
I need a new phone and I pay special attention to processors. Performance is important to me, as well as heating. I look towards the Snapdragon 730 and Snapdragon 720G. In AnTuTu 8, the second wins over the first by more than 10 percent, but I know that real tests can be very different from synthetic ones, so I need the opinion of a person who has used both processors. help!
https://nanoreview.net/en/soc-compare/qualcomm-snapdragon-730-vs-qualcomm-snapdragon-720g
Looking at the comparison, I saw that they have almost the same value of gflops, but the frequency of cores is different.
Mobile Professional Reviews--Oppo R5 review
Oppo's R5 is a seriously gorgeous phone. Clad in metal, it's super-thin -- just 4.85mm (0.19 inches) deep, and it weighs a scant 155 grams (5.5 ounces). It's certainly impressive, but this comes at the loss of the 3.5mm audio jack, so you'll have to use Bluetooth headphones if you want to listen to music. For Android fans envious of the iPhone 6 's slim frame, well, look no further. The R5's ultra-slim body beats the iPhone handily, and will draw envious stares from other Android owners as well. But slimness isn't all that great without the performance to back it up, and this is where the phone falters. It's oftentimes sluggish, and the camera takes forever to start up. The phone's thin frame also doesn't help with the heat and it can get uncomfortably hot at times.
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Oppo hasn't yet revealed exact dates for the phone's availability, but the Chinese company intends to sell it globally, either through its online store or working in partnership with local distributors. What I do know is that there will be three versions due to the different LTE bands -- one for the US, one for China and one for the rest of the world.
Price wise, the R5 will be sold at $449, which converts to roughly £310. It will also come unlocked, so you'll be able to use the phone on 3G mostly everywhere.
DesignThe R5 is encased in metal -- with a hand-polished steel frame and, on the back, brushed aluminum. This gives the phone a premium feel that you'd expect from a more expensive device.
The two-tone color scheme (either white and silver or white and gold) at the back does draw comparisons to Apple's iPhone designs, but the shape of the phone is much more angular. Despite being thinner, it doesn't feel as slippery as the iPhone.
One downside to the thin frame of the phone is that the rear 13-megapixel sticks out, much like Apple's iPhone. However, unlike the small bump of the iPhone 6, the R5's rear camera pops out a fair way, enough that it makes the phone uneven when placed on a flat surface.
The R5 sports a 5.2-inch AMOLED display, with a full HD resolution of 1,920x1,080 pixels. The screen is bright and sharp, while colors were vibrant. I do have issues with the auto-brightness settings of the phone -- it can sometimes be too dim.
Like most Chinese-made smartphones, the R5 sports physical home, menu and back keys. I'm not a fan of physical keys since I feel software keys are better to interact with -- you can (depending on the OS) switch the back button to either the left or right position.
The volume and power keys are on the right side, with the micro-USB port at the bottom. As mentioned earlier, there's no 3.5mm audio jack.
Oppo's R5 is powered by an octa-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor, and in theory, should have enough juice to power the phone. But my experience with the device was less than satisfactory: at times the phone would pause between switching apps, for example. I reckon a software update could fix this, and I will update the review if it does.
The phone packs 2GB of RAM, 16GB of onboard storage and a 2,000mAh battery. There's no microSD card slot to expand that storage, which limits the number of apps you can install and the number of tunes and movies you can keep onboard.
The phone is powered by Android 4.4 KitKat -- not the latest 5.0 Lollipop -- with Oppo's custom ColorOS UI on top. The software is very much improved from the company's first version, How to move apps from an old iPhone to a new iPhone though it looks similar. For one, it's much flatter.
LeEco leaps to Top 2 brand with most market attention
The figures from the report show that LeEco secured greater percentage of market attention of 25%, and the ranking has remarkable risen to Top 2, right behind Apple now, from the 4th position back in January. It has well surpassed Samsung and other competitors within no more than four months since its first entrance to the market.
LeEco has grabbed heavy attention and disrupted the Indian smartphone industry with the launch of Le 1s and Le Max, making foray into the Indian market in January this year. It has sold 2 lakhs Superphones within 30 days, receiving overwhelming responses from the public and in the first flash sale, 70,000 units of the flagship killer Le 1s were gone within 2 seconds, breaking three industry records and making it the No.1 best- selling smartphones online in India.
More than that, LeEco has a long-term and highly-anticipated plan for India and is committed to bringing the complete vertically-integrated Ecosystem to India. In order to take the user experience to a new height, LeEco has already signed deals with ErosNow for Video-on-demand (VOD) and with YuppTV for TV content streaming. To facilitate the seamless streaming of high-quality content, LeEco plans to invest 10 million USD to set up in-house Content Delivery Networks (CDN) across 10 cities in India by the end of this year. Besides, it has recently applied for the Foreign Investment Promotion Board’s (FIPB) approval to undertake the single brand retail trading of "Le" branded electronic products both through offline stores and e-commerce platform.
Globally, the disruptive Ecosystem business model has proved to be huge success and continued to transform people’s internet lifestyle with best-in-line ecosystem products and services powered by breakthrough technology and comprehensive ecosystem and disruptive pricing. Meanwhile, LeEco announced the pioneering and jaw-dropping “Free Hardware Day” in 14 April and lead the global industry to a brand new era where users should only pay for high-quality services and content, rather than the premium of hardware and the brand. The powerful and highly connected Ecosystem that LeEco boasts has shown enormous potential and attracted partnerships with various world-renowned companies, including establishing the joint-venture with Aston Martin to develop electric vehicles,
and inking strategic cooperation with Faraday Future.
A week ago on 20 April, LeEco unveiled impressive and long-awaited new range of products in Beijing, being the first internet ecosystem company in the world to release products belonging to distinct industries-electric vehicle, smartphone, TV, and VR. It has wowed the world, showcasing LeSEE’s first self-driving concept car and launching the ground-breaking second generation Superphones-Le 2, Le Max2 and Le 2Pro, the 4th generation Super TVs, LeVR device and the latest eUI 5.8 OS.
As the world’s first phone to come with USB Type-C audio port supported by CDLA (Continual Digital Lossless Audio) technology, the new Superphones have received a historic-high 23 million registrations, and achieved sales of 1.22 billion RMB (188 million USD), with a whopping 1 million units sold out in two hours after its first official sale kicks off across all platforms at 10am, 26 April, 2016. LeEco has broken two industry records as the fastest sales with the largest amount in China, and created a new record on JD. com with the biggest sales amount in a single day. Within 24 hours, the total sales of Superphones mount to 1.61 million units, breaking the sales of more than 1.9 billion RMB (293 million USD), which is unprecedented in the industry.
