Smartphones News and Discussions

[firestar464]

no lol

I am not giving into the consumerism

[Powers]

Just why? Aren't these cumbersome enough? If I wanted a big display I'd buy a tablet.

[wjfox]

[Tadasuke]

Quick comparison of highest performance in (frames per second) in the 4K Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen benchmark of Samsung Galaxy S flagship smartphones between 2015 and 2024:

• Galaxy S6 - 1.4 fps

• Galaxy S7 - 2.6 fps

• Galaxy S8 - 4.2 fps

• Galaxy S9 - 6.0 fps

• Galaxy S10 - 7.6 fps

• Galaxy S20 - 9.5 fps

• Galaxy S21 - 8.6 fps

• Galaxy S22 - 14.3 fps

• Galaxy S23 - 24.1 fps

• Galaxy S24 - 30.2 fps

30.2 fps divided by 1.4 fps equals 21.57, so there seems to be a significant improvement in that area over the last 9 years, but smaller than between 2006 and 2015.

[wjfox]

[Tadasuke]

Smartphones have had a similar user experience for many years now. It's basically a rectangular computer with a touchscreen, microphones, cameras and other sensors.

There is no large improvement in day-to-day user experience. Just advertisements pretending this or that.

Faster processing, slightly better cameras, maybe very slightly bigger screen. Boring!

I don't want to use such devices, even if they had 100 exaflops of processing speed. They don't feel futuristic at all to me, to be honest. Even 15 years ago I was already thinking about AR glasses and BCIs. I feel like we are stuck. And those "AIs" are still awfully stupid, and nearly everybody outside futurology/singularity circles thinks so too. Literally the only places I get downvoted for saying current AI is dumb and useless are futurism and singularity places. Everywhere else people agree.

[Yuli Ban]

And those "AIs" are still awfully stupid, and nearly everybody outside futurology/singularity circles thinks so too. Literally the only places I get downvoted for saying current AI is dumb and useless are futurism and singularity places. Everywhere else people agree.

There's a reason why contemporary AI is so stupid, and it's rather frustrating to see it in practice. The AIs aren't actually stupid; we're just using them stupidly.