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MagStar said

I do fairly ‘heavy’ work on my laptop. I have yet to see any smartphone that offers quick accessibility to 500 MB files. In fact, compared to a desktop computer, my laptop is lacking enough.

 

What are they most processor/memory reliant applications or activities that you do on your smartphone? Do they handle high def video fluidly? Would I be correct to assume that iPhones are the best for streaming and gaming?

500mb files on any modern smartphone or even tablet within the snapdragon 600+ chipset could easily chew it up and spit it out, these things are designed to play movies in at 1080p which clock in at around 30 frames per second if not higher in some cases and the average size of those files (at full 1080p) is around 1.2 – 1.3 GB per file, take into account that android/iOS is decoding the audio and video while powering all those pixels – so it’s perfectly doable.

In terms of a work system this is the year to look into one more so if your in the states, companies like Samsung and Sony are now following Apple by placing Sim card slots on there tablet models so the Sony Xperia Ultra or the brand new Sony 12″ pro (a HUGE tablet!) are now web capable without wifi (LTE/3g) coupled in with google drive or dropbox and maybe a micro SD (depends on model, iphones, no) and you have a pretty sweep setup.

The problem is mobile technology right now simply cannot do complex computing, full studio style editing of a video for example using some of the stuff you see in Motion or Final Cut pro you just could not do on a tablet, it’s one of the reasons I have and still maintain a laptop now – I cannot find a suitable Git (development) platform for a mobile device and these things are heavy on a desktop setup.

If I was to say anything to those that want the tablet yet need a laptop look at something like the surface pro which has a detachable keyboard, runs Windows RT so all your applications (photoshop, icad) etc will function on it just fine, when you need a tablet it’s capable of such – my big turn off with it would be it’s made my microsoft themselves so i personally wouldnt touch it but windows fanboys swear by them.

In terms of is the iPhone best for media/gaming – depends on your perspective on paper, no far from it – they have a lower PPI than most other android flagships from the android world so any modern flagship from samsung, lg, sony or even oppo would make the iphone look below par -but depends where your focus lies. It’s largely thought and understood that apples application frameworks are more mature than the ones provided by Google for android i.e games are far more stable, bigger market place – android is catching up and device wise it has in many cases the better specs the Nexus 5 for example rocks an Adreno 330 a beast of a GPU .. my advice to anyone goto the store, hold the phone – does it feel good to use, test youtube, test video playback, music, connectivty how does it sound look at the HTC one for example probably the best smartphone of 2013 and one of the first flagships released however it fails in two key areas.

1. battery life sucks
2. camera is as bad they come on a flagship

The lack of good camera would put me off it alone despite all it’s other positives – for me right now the best gaming/multimedia device is the LG G2 – great specs, great design, fantastic camera and little known fact – LG supply apple with most the screens used on the iPhone so they know how to make a kickass screen!