Moto E is faster than the Galaxy S5

[Dylan522p]

 

Of course the S5 had a far higher resolution screen, but it also has a far more powerful SOC. It's ridiculous that a $120 phone is faster than a $700 phone no matter how you look at it. I mean you can buy 5-6 Moto E's for one S5. This video just showcases how terribly coded touchwiz really is.

[Osmium]

Now that is quite impressive. I never got the whole focus on super hi res on a small screen (although I am not a smartphone user... at all so take my opinion with a grain of salt). To me this is a prime example of the folly of wasting your proccessing power on pixels you don't need when you could just save battery life.

[WunderWuffle]

Woah. This just proved that not everything more expensive is better. 

[terrytek]

Wow. Total MindFuck.

[matin94]

Haha

[Warcony]

The S5 that dude is using is super laggy, I haven't experienced any of that with mine so far.  I have animations turned down so maybe that it's it.

Edit: I am pretty sure he rigged the test in favour of the moto e

[Redheadsrule13]

Nice, seems like the Moto E is going to hit a sweet spot for people who want simple, stock Android along with a functional and snappy phone. I'm going to be going with either the Moto E or G next phone upgrade for sure.

[bcredeur97]

can S5 run other ROM's yet? like can you put stock android on it?

 

 

yes i know this would be inconvenient for the average consumer to have to go and do this, but I'm just curious.

[CtW]

This just confirms that TouchWiz is terrible and is too heavy of a skin over Android. 

[nosirrah123]

Moto X 4 Lyfe

[Misanthrope]

You need to see this LAwLz

[Dylan522p]

can S5 run other ROM's yet? like can you put stock android on it?

 

 

yes i know this would be inconvenient for the average consumer to have to go and do this, but I'm just curious.

Yes, but your warranty is completely void and no way to circumvent them knowing you did it because they put a hardware fuse that blows if you tamper withe boot loader. You phone is great then, but fuck you if your product is defective.

[geforceftw]

This just confirms that TouchWiz is terrible and is too heavy of a skin over Android. 

TouchWiz isn't terrible i had no problem with it, and i actually like it more than htc sense. I'm using cm11 now though. 

[Mauri]

TouchWiz isn't terrible i had no problem with it, and i actually like it more than htc sense. I'm using cm11 now though. 

heathen. repent!

[Misanthrope]

TouchWiz isn't terrible i had no problem with it, and i actually like it more than htc sense. I'm using cm11 now though. 

 

Replay the video: you might have no problem with it, you might prefer it over htc sense, that's all cool, but you can't deny that it IS pretty damn terrible at least for performance.

[ttam]

Well duh to the fact that a stock, non bogged down OS will run faster than a much more feature heavy OS.. Not shocking at all.

 

A single core XP machine with 512mb of ram can still outperform a quad core with 2gb of ram, running win 7 that has a lot of stuff open.. Common sense really.

[hawaiims]

Woah. This just proved that not everything more expensive is better. 

All it proved was that Samsung Touchwiz and the craptastic S-Apps is shit (spoiler alert: they are indeed shit)

[hal9001]

Up your game Samsung!

[StingBull]

Samsung can put an i7 quad core to their next phone, the fucking gallery will still lag.

[mathijs727]

The reason i ditched Samsung.

Used to have a Galaxy S, but it was sooooooo slow and laggy.

Switched to HTC's One X, but in their own apps they had implemented some weird type of scrollig that lagged too (and wifi was buggy which was a manufacturing fault, but i didnt want to send in my phone, wait 3 months, and then probably get fucked over by them saying i have to pay for their problems because of water damage).

Windows phone is smooth (in most apps) but loading times are super high (Lumia 800 and HTC 8x)

 

Im currently using an iPhone 5, and even though its certainly not perfect. I dont get annoyed by lags or frame drops which i thnk is unacceptable from a 600 euro phone from 2014.

[zanduh]

You can have awesome hardware but it doesn't mean much if you have shit like touchwiz slowing everything down

[paras]

That's a lol moment,Moto is better than s5.

[TheGosuStandard]

Would the Moto E be a good starter smartphone for my parents, they have never used a smartphone or ever use text (I think). 

[qwertywarrior]

maybe linus can finally understand why stock is better

[Warcony]

Just because yours performances differently doesn't mean he cheated the tests lol. You turned down the animations, he probably left it on default. I'm sure that would constitute to bad lag when paired with Touchwiz. 

 

That's not the only reason why I think that. For example the gallery on the S5 had a lot more in it on the S5 and the E only had 1 item (looks like the default).  It is pretty easy to rig a test like this and IMO it is.  I haven't heard of anyone else complaining of lag that bad on the S5 or any of the other flagships this year / last year.  Comparing my S5 to my girlfriends G2, I notice no difference in speed, but comparing it to the Moto X, both the G2 and S5 feel sooo much faster and smoother opening anything.