Happy weekend!

There has been a lot of news related to benchmarking lately, including an admission by Google that they blocked Play Store downloads of benchmarking apps during the Pixel 8 review embargo, as well as fresh chips coming down the pipeline by Qualcomm and MediaTek.

Discussion questions:

  • Do smartphone benchmarks matter?
  • Are they still a useful reference and do you consider them when shopping for an upgrade?

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  • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No.

    I use my phone to make calls, text, and read lemmy posts. I could probably get by with an iPhone 3 or a pixel 5 or something equally low powered.