Samsung GALAXY S4

[Sushubh]

I would really like it if they migrate to tizen permanently. Would be a good riddance moment for me.

 

[Technoholic]

lol! same feelings!

 

[ashish]

Tizen will no doubt capture more market than Windows phone. Even Bada OS until last year had more usage than WP.
But other phone manufacturers will have to adopt Tizen in order to reach 10 % marketshare
We will be having Firefox & Ubuntu OS in competition to Tizen this year, so it will be not so easy for Tizen to climb up the marketshare

 

[Sushubh]

Samsung alone is good enough If it does not work well in premium devices, they can always use it for budget segment models. They would have complete control over it. They have already created an entire ecosystem of apps and services.
Except for Mapping and Navigation, they have everything. As someone said today... They can collaborate with Microsoft and use Bing and Bing Maps. MIcrosoft would pay good money for the same. ;P

 

[Technoholic]

Tizen will no doubt capture more market than Windows phone. Even Bada OS until last year had more usage than WP.
But other phone manufacturers will have to adopt Tizen in order to reach 10 % marketshare
We will be having Firefox & Ubuntu OS in competition to Tizen this year, so it will be not so easy for Tizen to climb up the marketshare

[color=rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Droid Sans', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;]But Firefox will mostly about low end to midrange phones smartphones. Infact it was believed that Tizen is to cater the same segment.[/color]

 

[Sushubh]

it's getting annoying. Sony is betting on firefox os. samsung is betting on tizen. and then we have ubuntu os. it is getting pretty darn insane. all of them wants the budget market. but at least two of them require specifications that are more like mid-range.

 

[Technoholic]

Samsung alone is good enough If it does not work well in premium devices, they can always use it for budget segment models. They would have complete control over it. They have already created an entire ecosystem of apps and services.
Except for Mapping and Navigation, they have everything. As someone said today... They can collaborate with Microsoft and use Bing and Bing Maps. MIcrosoft would pay good money for the same. ;P

And Nokia is now powering most of MS's mapping business. Nokia has always been smart enough when mapping is concerned. Firefox OS is also powered by Nokia's solutions. As the OS and ecosystem grows, it will only do good for Nokia.

It's true that Samsung is good enough to Tizen. Other manufacturers can jump anytime or can even fork out their own versions. I bet Nokia has plan B with Sailfish/MeeGo OS and not with Android. Well can not be said as plan B but rather simultaneous development when exclusivity with MS ends in 2016. Nokia has been very supportive to Jolla community (ex Nokia employees), Infact its interesting to know that this community was united and founded with Nokia's support.

 

[Technoholic]

it's getting annoying. Sony is betting on firefox os. samsung is betting on tizen. and then we have ubuntu os. it is getting pretty darn insane. all of them wants the budget market. but at least two of them require specifications that are more like mid-range.

I think Ubuntu for smartphone will always have niche share. It requires pretty high resources and hard to bring to lower price point as Canonical's aim is to offer solid desktop and smartphone integration.

 

[Amjath]

I think its not posted here
http://www.gsmarena.com/uk_samsung_galaxy_s4_demand_is_40_more_than_galaxy_s_iiis-news-5713.php

 

[Hardik7]

you are a bit mistaken here. all cores are not in use all the time. they have different cores for different processing. so when you are doing basic tasks, less powerful cores are being used. and so on. so battery life actually gets a boost as there are more options for the software.

No. He's right. It's basically comparable to sports cars. Faster you punch the accelerator, faster you burn the fuel.
In smartphones display, CPU and cell radio takes up most of the battery. By embedding faster CPU we can finish more tasks in a short time. It does so by rendering images smoother, connecting to the internet faster, improvement in FPS. But all these require more juice out of the battery. All core are present but there's a single source of battery.
It's just specs whores. There are currently not more than 10 apps in Play store which take the advantage of quad core, forget the eight core. I maybe exaggerating myself here. Problem is with programming in multithreading. It's tough. There's an intricacy involved in debugging apps in the times of an error.
Apple's no slouch by using customized dual core A6.

I wonder what happens next year..i mean after 1080p what next ? i think we will see some real innovation from mobile manufacturers next year.

Samsung is still using a PenTile display therefore when you take away one third (1/3) of the pixels to match it to an even sub-pixel count it's on par with what Apple has been using in the iPhone since 2010.
The difference is that the color accuracy is still way off. Given the pixel arrangement '441' is not a real PPI. Removal of those 1/3 of pixels gets you around 330 pixels. In reality with Galaxy S IV, first time they are shipping with a 'Retina like' display.