Again, so?
It is you who is out of touch. First, I get parallel computing and distributed CPU architecture. Long gone are the days of *My CPU is more powerful than yours*. Now it is about new features in a phone.
You are still not getting it though. To draw an analogy - A shorter route from A to B does not necessarily mean it is the fastest route and vice versa the fastest route may not be the quickest route. Here's another, higher Internet bandwidth does not mean faster throughput/connections.
Apple/Samsung have been criticized for lack of innovation of late, and no one is interested in parted their money for a faster CPU, more memory etc. Consumers want more features (for me the Physical Keyboard is a must feature). Hence CPU/RAM specs are mostly meaningless for the consumer in the West because we have been subjected to consumerism for the past 70 odd years, been there, done that, but in India I can understand, where consumerism is in its infancy, and having a top of the range phone is considered a status symbol hence why the arguments of my screen is bigger than yours, my CPU is faster than yours, my RAM is larger than yours etc in the playgrounds.
I suggest you look up on the architecture of different types of CPU. 9nm is about the physical limit, any smaller and electrons could jump from one track to another. The speed and number of the CPUs is no longer an argument, and neither are number of cores, it’s all down to efficient programming and software. Read up on CISC vs RISC if you want to understand CPU efficiency; small instruction set vs large instruction set.
As for the security patch from DEC 2018, oh my! You really do need to play catch up. Do you even know why BB is the most secure phone on the planet? Security is BAKED into the hardware – read this again – baked into the hardware – ALL of it. The software side is an extra layer, and when changing this layer any update must confirm to stringent testing anyway. Why do you think there are less security updates for a BB Android device compared with Samsung/Apple or any other manufacture? Because barring BB, other brands rely on security provided by the software.
By the way, BB might be a dead brand in the traditional sense, but so was Apple, so not sure what your point is. BB is leading the way in the Automobile and Robotics industry by providing Blackberry architecture to run automation software. Secure, reliable, and robust.
Now you can compare the K2 to other phones in terms of specs/power/cost etc, but 2 aspects which BB offers that no other does, Physical Keyboard and baked in security. For me it primarily about the features. So if you want to discuss features then sure, but I am not here to argue the BB is the most powerful phone on the market. :thumb:
What phone do you use?
