Smartphones News and Discussions

[Tadasuke]

As we know, smartphones are being gradually designed, engineered and produced to be faster and faster. ........ Real-world performance is a resultant of CPU speed, storage speed, memory speed, GPU speed, ASIC speed and all the latencies combined (bottlenecks are the worst).

My observation is that smartphones from a given price category usually have a similar performance to 10 years old desktop PCs from a corresponding price category (typically treat desktop prices as 2x smartphone prices):

2009 top smartphone CPU (HTC HD2) = 1999 PC CPU like Athlon K7 500 (500 MHz)
2011 top smartphone CPU (Galaxy Note) = 2001 PC CPU like Athlon XP K7 1900+ 1600 MHz
2014 top smartphone CPU (Galaxy Note 4) = 2004 PC CPU like Athlon 64 K8 3500+ 2.4 GHz
2016 top smartphone CPU = 2006 PC CPU like Core2Duo 2.6 GHz or Athlon 64 X2 K8 2.9 GHz
2019 top smartphone CPU = 2009 PC CPU like 1st-gen i7 4/8 3.2 GHz or AMD Phenom II X6 K10 3 GHz
2023 top smartphone CPU = 2013 PC CPU like i7-4960X 4 GHz (equivalent to Ryzen 3 3300X 4.5 GHz or i5-10400F 3.5 GHz, which are ~10x faster than the aforementioned C2D 2.6 or A64X2 2.9)
2023 top smartphone GPU is probably about as fast as the 2013 Radeon 270X (Radeon HD 7870). However, you need to take into consideration the probability of throttling due to thermals.

I guess that 2030 top smartphone CPU will be about 4x faster than 2023 top smartphone CPU. Hopefully, cache, storage and RAM will be able to keep up. I guess they will be able to. It would be nice to get better (solid-state) cooling solutions and much longer lasting batteries by that time. Perhaps cooling is going to be about 65% better by 2030 and batteries 45% better than today.

[Tadasuke]

Here is my current virtual touchscreen keyboard choice (Gboard) for my Android smartphone:



It will probably be different in a few months.
I type this using voice. Most of this text is recognized incorrectly.

[weatheriscool]

T-Mobile to acquire most of U.S. Cellular in $4.4 billion deal

Source: CNBC

Published Tue, May 28 2024 7:37 AM EDT Updated 6 Min Ago

T-Mobile announced Tuesday that it plans to acquire most of U.S. Cellular, including stores, some of the wireless operator’s spectrum and its customers, in a deal worth $4.4 billion. The deal includes cash and up to $2 billion of debt.

Up to $100 million of the deal’s cash portion depends on certain financial and operating metrics being met between its signing and closing. Shares of U.S. Cellular jumped more than 10% in premarket trading. T-Mobile shares were flat.

T-Mobile will acquire about 30% of U.S. Cellular’s wireless spectrum as part of the deal. It plans to use that to improve coverage in rural areas while offering better connectivity to U.S. Cellular customers around the United States. The company said it will allow U.S. Cellular customers to keep their current plans or switch to a T-Mobile plan.

U.S. Cellular will retain 70% of its wireless spectrum and towers and will lease space on at least 2,100 additional towers to T-Mobile.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/28/t-mobil ... -deal.html