Technical characteristics of the smartphone no longer matter: software solves everything
Devices / / December 19, 2019
It's time to admit that if the smartphone is worth $ 99, does not make him automatically a bad thing. As the price of $ 700 does not guarantee that the gadget will surely be good.
"Stuffing" is important smartphone: this would argue no. But the capabilities of the device is determined not only by its specifications. According to CPU speed, RAM size, the number of cores in the smartphone and today megapixel camera is quite difficult to determine how well a gadget will work. The claimed high performance are often abstract, but because of their importance is exaggerated.
If we trace the evolution of, for example, Android-gadgets that every new phone after the Motorola Droid I had a slightly higher clock frequency or a little larger memory than predecessor. These smartphones have started to advertise specifications as the features of a particular model. And over time, consumers have begun to track performance.
But do you know which processor is in your smartphone? What's his clock frequency? How important to you these figures?
In fact, the producers reached an important milestone - the point of diminishing returns on most specifications. Can you say what will be the difference between 270 ppi (pixels per inch - the number of pixels per inch, screen resolution) and 440 ppi on the phone? Is it possible to see the difference in the photographs taken by 13-megapixel camera and 22-megapixel? There is a much more important characteristic: for example, a display manufacturing technology, capabilities of the camera sensor.
Most of the differences are subjective between phones.
The users of the same smartphone can like and dislike he made the photo. Some will talk about its operational work, while others - argue that inhibits the gadget.
So what makes one phone is better than the other? Today, on the first place software. For example, in recent years, the Android team has put a lot of effort to make the work of smartphones (including the lowest performance) with this operating system more productive.
Each manufacturer (Samsung, LG, and so on), as well as software developers add their own features and applications. Some of them work on Android is worse, some - better. And this shows the difference in the smartphone.
Manufacturers decide what makes them unique and allows the device to select it from a large number of offerings on the market. If you need a waterproof phone, you are sure to choose one of the models of Samsung. Do you want a gadget on which you will be guaranteed to receive OS updates over the coming years? You may prefer Pixel from Google.
What is important is that the majority of budget smartphones today bring much more profit than the premium model, although there are at least half as much. Competing brands - who is found under the hood of iron more well-known manufacturer - still ongoing. But this struggle is gradually coming to an end.