nikp
Headphoneus Supremus
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No it's being replaced for me. I'm possibly replacing my 4G Touch with a 4GS.
Oh the iPhone 4S.. I thought there's a new ipod touch called the 4GS. My bad..
No it's being replaced for me. I'm possibly replacing my 4G Touch with a 4GS.
The Touch 4G is my DAP of choice (though it's being replaced by a 4GS soon), but the 3GS is simply better sound-wise imo. The Touch tends to color the sound in the mids and rolls off the treble, 3GS simply has a more reference sort of quality and easily stays on par with a DAP like the J3 whereas the Touch doesn't. The 3GS doesn't have treble roll-off, if nitpicking the region that has roll-off is the treble but not to the extent of the Touch. Cowon and Samsung players have bass roll-offs.
Conducting those sort of test is tricky as you somehow have to find a way to perfectly match them first, the output requirements are quite different on both.
I did feel the 3GS had better mids even though the bass disappeared under 40hz, which might be down to the internal amp rather than DAC? It's annoying. How does the Touch 3G fare? I'm been browsing the Refurb store and the 64GB ones pop up occasionally, would save me some money, although the form factor of the 4G does cut down on the overall size of the brick once you add the CLAS+amp.
Mine should be delivered while I'm at work... I'll have my hands on it later though.
Regarding the RAM... the 4S steams through all sorts of benchmarks and in real world use (which is what matters most) it's fast. It 'only' has an underclocked A5 yet it runs quicker than the current Android phones at stock. If the end user experience was being affected by the current amount of RAM then they'd have upped it, but evidently it isn't. For things like multi-tasking it doesn't need more RAM like Android because apps don't really run fully in the background bar the odd thing like Tom-Tom.
I think we'll see 1GB on the next one because it'll be the start of a new tick-tock cycle and they'll be things that will require more RAM, although I've got no idea what they might be.
Yah, I've only seen 2 bench marks where the iPhone 4s topped the Galaxy S2. 1 was a javascript bench mark and the other was graphics 3D benchmark.
Making fan boy comments that the A5 crushes everything is wrong! It certainly has a more powerful graphics chip but that's it.
the A5 is just an underclocked Exynos with a better graphics chip.
what I'm looking forward to the most is the the purported SGS3 specs sourced from the same person that leaked the Prime (which looks pretty accurate to me, look at the leaked video of the actually Prime)
http://www.gsmarena.com/purported_samsung_galaxy_s_iii_specs_revealed-news-3149.php