![]() ![]() The smartphone was previously mentioned in a colouring book sent to Pixel Superfans in January. The listing tips the processor, RAM, and operating system expected on the upcoming smartphone. The purported successor to the Pixel 5a was spotted on benchmarking website Geekbench. Benchmarks have their uses, but too often the focus is on "it has to be the fastest" or "I want it now!!!", rather than taking a more holistic approach around the product lifecycle and user experience.Google Pixel 6a specifications have surfaced online. The overall user experience is more important, and to me, that makes benchmarks pretty much irrelevant. What puzzles me is why there is such a difference in experiences and such visceral reactions to something like the charging time and benchmarks.On the subject of benchmarks – I gave up looking at benchmarks for PCs many years ago and never took any notice of them for mobile phones or tablets. It is fast, with a great screen, great camera, etc, and I, like many others, have had none of the issues raised on these pages. I am more than happy with a 2 hour charging time and a battery that has a longer life – I intend to keep this mobile phone a long time and do not have the incredible luxury of getting the latest and greatest every year. The phones in the test were: Apple iPhone 13 Pro max, Asus Zenfone 8, Google Pixel 6 Pro, OnePlus 9 Pro, Realme GT 5G, Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, Sony Xperia Pro-I and Xiaomi 11T Pro. Would it have made more sense to test it internally, with employees, until they had a competitive product? Will it hurt the Pixel’s reputation? (Does it still have much of a reputation outside of die-hard Google fans any more, anyway?) It is a first generation product from Google, but even so, if it compares so poorly to the SoCs it is trying to replace (Qualcomm Snapdragon and Samsung Exynos), should Google have held it back another generation, or do they really need the real-world feedback on its daily performance? This seems to indicate that the Google Tensor SoC really isn’t ready for primetime at the moment. It came bottom in every test, usually by a very wide margin (all the other Android phones were within rounding errors of each other on performance). If we ignore the Apple results, it is a totally different processor running a different OS, so there are too many factors to make a 100% accurate comparison and is not why I was surprised by the results, the real surprise is just how poorly the Google flagship performs, compared to its rivals using the same platform. The multicore test, the Pixel managed 2505, the other Androids all between 34 points (the iPhone walked away, again, with 4717).ģDMark Wild Life, the Pixel waddled across the line with 4311 points, the Android rivals with 5700-5800 points (the iPhone, again, with 9737). On Geekbench 5 single core, the Pixel managed 928 points, with all the other Androids around the 1100 point mark (the iPhone was the leader at 4717). It also reflected Paul’s experience, with charging, coming bottom of the pack by a margin of over 30 minutes! It came bottom in every performance test, by a big margin, and it only beat the Sony Xperia Pro-I on YouTube playback time (13.9 hours as opposed to 9.3, but the rest were all over 15 hours, with the Apple and Samsung pushing the 20 hour mark). What was a shock was just how badly the Pixel did. The only real weakness was in 3D gaming, where most of the competition beat it for playing time (only 11.8 hours, compared to 12-15.8 hours for the others, with the Galaxy winning that round. (Geekbench 5, it was over 60% faster than the other phones). There was no real surprise that the A15 ran rings around the Qualcomm and Samsung chips. They also included 3 phones which had their own custom designed CPUs, the iPhone, with its Apple A15 Bionic, the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, with its Samsung Exynos 2100 and the Pixel 6 Pro, with the Google Tensor SoC. high end processors, not just high end prices, the cheapest was the 400€ Realme GT 5G, which still has the high end Qualcomm chip. They compared the “highend” smartphones – i.e. (Available in German, behind the heise+ paywall: ) They did a head-to-head between the top Android handsets and the iPhone 13 Pro Max in the latest issue. I was reading an article in the current c’t magazine. ![]()
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