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Google’s Moat

November 16, 2011 by alistairmilne 0 Comments

Google’s share price has underperformed in recent years. Despite growing strongly, even through the credit crisis, investors appear to have misunderstood Google’s strategy and feared that competitors may steal a march on the search engine giant. Investors instead fell in love with Facebook and Apple, the latter probably completely justified given its enormous profitability. Many [...]

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iPhone 5 is Slower Than Rivals

September 16, 2011 by alistairmilne 0 Comments

Before I get flamed by Apple fanboys, I’ve obviously written a sensationalist headline and made some key assumptions (outlined below)!  I nearly called this article “Your iPhone 5 is Already Obsolete” … but that’s true of every smartphone! However, the odds are that the iPhone 5 will be slower and possibly of a lower specification in general when [...]

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Quad Core Smartphones

September 14, 2011 by alistairmilne 0 Comments

It looks like quad-core tablets will arrive by Christmas this year, and quad-core smartphones will follow on in the first half of 2012. Both Nvidia and Qualcomm have announced that their quad-core processors are on the way, both will use a 28nm die size which will help reduce heat and power consumption. Hopefully we will [...]

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Today’s Fastest Smartphones – September 2011

September 13, 2011 by alistairmilne 0 Comments

The pace of development of smartphones is truly incredible. It seems that every 3 months there is a significant improvement in terms of performance of the top-end handsets. At the time of writing, the fastest smartphones currently available sport a 1.2Ghz dual-core processor around 1Gb of RAM and are around 1/2 the speed of an [...]

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Smartphones, Technology

Smartphone vs PC – Javascript Benchmarks

September 11, 2011 by alistairmilne 0 Comments

I wanted to get a real comparison of where the current fastest smartphones are in terms of performance vs PCs I have available to test. Will update as I receive new figures from friends and/or new phones to test! I found two javascript benchmarks, one called ‘SunSpider‘ from WebKit.org … the other ‘v8‘ from Google. [...]

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