It is great that devices are getting faster. In fact the speeds double every year or two. But are we putting the great speeds to good use? Let us analyse that for a few seconds. The great speeds enable us to open apps and games faster and in most speed comparisons you will notice that on the two devices being compared the reviewers try to open different apps to determine which one is faster. So apart from opening apps and games how else is a speed increase better? Well, RAM improvement also comes in for better multitasking and to enable things such as multi window on Galaxy devices. GPU improvements help with smoother gaming. Basically specification improvements only help to better what is already there.
I will always refer to the older Nokia devices. Phones such as Nokia N95, N82 only had a 300MHz processor and 64MB and 128MB RAM respectively but they could do so much. The E series could also do much more. Those good old symbian days it was never about the specifications but what the phone could do. Apple is selling the same concept. Their devices are known to be user friendly and they just work. The apps make up for lack of features hence what’s running under the hood has never been a big deal.
The reason why NFC has not really been successful is because we still focus on apps. NFC compatible accessories should be mainstream by now.
Water resistant devices from Sony are a great idea and other manufacturers should join in.
The FM transmitter common in symbian devices died with the OS but I would like to see it make a comeback on windows phone.
It is those simple differentiating features that count. The Operating Systems are more or less the same across platforms and the apps and games the same. So if you want to stand out don’t just put the fastest and the latest processor but think of a feature you could add since everyone else uses the same hardware.
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