But these devices aren’t ‘phones’ any more are they? That’s disingenuous.
They’re hugely powerful general purpose computing devices - many people’s primary computing device if you go outside the tech bubble. They do compute intensive tasks like photo manipulation, on-line video editing, grading, and compression, they do face detection, depth estimation, etc etc.
I don’t know why people still say ‘wow all this for a telephone’ like all it does is make analog phone calls.
its a shame we can't 'dock' em to a larger monitor to do desktop work yet. There are attempts by few players, but if Apple can do that it would be another revolution..
I was pretty excited about Linux on DeX for Samsung devices since it had a capable CPU but unfortunately they discontinued it when Android 10 was released.
Right - 'one of the most powerful CPUs ever created was for a phone' sounds funny, so to get your head around it think instead 'one of the most powerful CPUs ever created was for a miniaturised 4k on-line editing suite and live broadcast system' and it doesn't sound so absurd anymore does it?
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But these devices aren’t ‘phones’ any more are they? That’s disingenuous.
They’re hugely powerful general purpose computing devices - many people’s primary computing device if you go outside the tech bubble. They do compute intensive tasks like photo manipulation, on-line video editing, grading, and compression, they do face detection, depth estimation, etc etc.
I don’t know why people still say ‘wow all this for a telephone’ like all it does is make analog phone calls.
its a shame we can't 'dock' em to a larger monitor to do desktop work yet. There are attempts by few players, but if Apple can do that it would be another revolution..
I was pretty excited about Linux on DeX for Samsung devices since it had a capable CPU but unfortunately they discontinued it when Android 10 was released.
The standard dex is also quite capable. You can install terminals which have all the standard utils. I was even able to run vs code.
Because it fits in your hand and runs on a battery and is called a phone.
iPhone
As an aside, I was wondering what things does the iPhone 12 do that can even begin to tax all this horespower?
Right - 'one of the most powerful CPUs ever created was for a phone' sounds funny, so to get your head around it think instead 'one of the most powerful CPUs ever created was for a miniaturised 4k on-line editing suite and live broadcast system' and it doesn't sound so absurd anymore does it?
I assume there are some games that can utilize the power.