To anyone reading this and getting ready to reply: please notice that this thread was decided four days ago when OP bought a G3. Somehow yesterday someone successfully trolled with some bait posts and received some responses.
Come on guys, you know not to feed these things.
Howso? All you've done is demonstrate your habit of fixation on one aspect of the design and geeking out on it.
You've proved my point perfectly, do you really not understand that I never even knew that issue existed until I read it here. I have yet to even encounter the "issue"
Unlike iphone, androids issues are much much deeper than a lack of RAM. Your operating system needs to be secured first and foremost. It's unsafe.
Wow Troll comes out, to call people trolls?
Do you have anything to contribute to the convo apart from obvious lack of reading comprehension?
I am the first person to contribute to this thread, scroll all the way up.
Now how about you? Have you contributed at all to OP's question?
I prefer iPhone 6 Plus, it is the best phone according to your demand.
To anyone reading this and getting ready to reply: please notice that this thread was decided four days ago when OP bought a G3. Somehow yesterday someone successfully trolled with some bait posts and received some responses.
Come on guys, you know not to feed these things.
I do not debate vague generalities like you seem content to. I chose to highlight a quantifiable issue and that issue was not enough memory to use more than 1 app on iphones.
Now that issue is settled. I'm happy to move on. I've highlighted other platform strengths of Android already. Superior screens, battery life and hot swappable batteries - - which is huge for people that have professional lives and a social life at night.
The only reason you haven't "encountered this issue" (which you already stated you did with a certain amount of tabs open) is because you've never ever used a phone that doesn't have that limitation. I didn't realize what it was like having my app stay open in memory to go back to until I got a phone with enough RAM.
Please backup your statement about Android security. The most secure phones in the world use Android.
Yeah sorry about that. I figured the dude was a shill but got caught trying to reason with him anyways. Glad OP got the G3.. Excellent phone!
I think I've educated a lot of hearts and minds. OPs question is thread title, just because you disagree with my (obviously correct) assessment of best 2014 smartphone doesn't mean you can come i here and call me names!
The problem is, OP's question is not simply the thread title. As a summary: he was trying to decide between the G3, S5, and Z3, and asked if there are any other higher-end specced phones from 2014 out there that he might be interested in. And yes, some people already mentioned the iPhone 6 and 6+, and guess what, the OP didn't even acknowledge them at all. Maybe because he's not interested? Regardless, he decided to get the G3 and seemed to be happy with it. The end.
That was me helping you summarizing the thread, because apparently it was you who are having a problem in reading comprehension, or maybe you just never bothered to read the thread and just simply read the topic, skim through and got hot because the iPhone isn't even in consideration, and started typing. But now you know what this thread is *really* about. You're welcome!
Now, if it wasn't clear to you, I wasn't calling you out because of your list (which I admit is a little weird because there are phones clearly not from 2014 there, but hey, it's your list), but what you did before that. There was zero reason to bring Android vs iPhone to this thread. People were having a regular discussion, until suddenly you came in here and drop your bait. This is what I consider a classic troll bait. So I just called it as I see it.
You are picking the best time to troll though, so until the mods come in and clean things up tomorrow, have fun!
The 6 also doesn't throttle! In 3dmark after running for 20 minutes every android phone is down to 10fps, while the iPhone 6 plus hasn't lost any performance!!
iOS is far better than android at handling memory. 1GB in the 5s will be more useful than 3GB in the note 4.
You were doing pretty good. You almost convinced me. Problem is even the biggest Apple fanboys can admit 1gb of ram is crap in 2014. There is a reason people are flipping out about the iPad maybe having having 2gb. No matter how you spin it all these 1gb iOS devices aren't good enough for anyone that actually pushes a computer.
I can easily make that 3GB ram more useful-just load up tabs in the browser. Of course I am sure using more than one tab in a browser is just something us dumb Android people do. Apple can load that one tab better than anyone, no one ever needs more than that!!!
I agree apple should've put 2GB. They def screwed that up, but I'm ok with 1GB.
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We can play benchmarks if you want.
Really?
Where can I buy that Korean LTE-A device ? Korea?
Funny android has to go around the world to find benchmarks you don't lose at. Would you like me to start quoting G3 vs Iphone 6 GPU benchmarks? Or any single thread or browser benchmark?
This could get ugly for you guys... Android hasn't won the benchmark war overall since like 2012.
Could you run sun spider and get back to us? Then run Kraken and Octane, and we will average those THREE benchmarks and see which is faster, the 2013 iPhone 5s or your 2014 S5 that they only sell on obscure islandsThat's my phone, from my carrier EE (although I bought it contract free), in my country (the UK).
The OP chose the G3. This is the problem with you android guys, you cant decide which phone to use because they all have HUGE weaknesses.Why would you quote a G3 benchmark at me? Neither of us has a G3.
It's won the one I posted, the one that you brought up first.
Could you run sun spider and get back to us? Then run Kraken and Octane, and we will average those THREE benchmarks and see which is faster, the 2013 iPhone 5s or your 2014 S5 that they only sell on obscure islands
The OP chose the G3. This is the problem with you android guys, you cant decide which phone to use because they all have HUGE weaknesses.
And?
The truth is now that SOCs are so powerful, 98% of what most users do with their phones have no discernible difference.
Even in gaming, we'll have to compare the on-screen results of S805 1080p phones (not the 2 Samsung QHD phoens) to see if there really is much difference since off-screen results are very close according to Anandtech's review.
That's the truth.
My S805 1080p phone is so overpowered for what I use it for. Battery life is pretty good though so I don't really mind the excessive hardware.
If you want any done I'll be off work later in the week, there's a couple of benchmarks in a thread here as well.Yeah I wish your market 1080p version had been fully benchmarked. The S5 LTE-A version tested by Anandtech is QHD and off-screen benches surprisingly close to the iPhone 6. I do expect on-screen performance to be competitive to the 6 Plus, but not up to the 6 due to the much lower resolution.
It would have been interesting to see an S805 Z3 Compact but alas.