by Donnelly John
Nowadays, it is almost impossible to imagine life without cell phones yet it was not so long ago that the people who owned them were relatively few.
The first cellular phone became publicly available around the mid 1980s but it was not until 1997 that Nokia released their famous near-indestructible phone, the Nokia 6110, popularly known here as ‘Blue-Soap,’ which introduced a new pastime built into its software called ‘Snake’. Everyone remembers that, right? Don’t try to deny it, you too tried to beat your classmates/friends/siblings’ high score.
As technology advanced, so did cell phone hardware which took a huge leap in its processing power.
Today your cell phone is at least 1000 times faster than the New Millennium’s trendy Samsung Blue. Since then manufacturers have continuously tried to add a bit of curb appeal to their handsets to increase their entertainment value and productivity, and to drive up sales.
Kudos to you if you’ are a gamer or you’ve played a casual mobile game such as Flappy Bird or dare I say … Candy Crush. However, if you are planning on doing some serious gaming on a mobile phone, then Android or iOS devices are the way to go. The fact is there are hundreds of Android and iOS devices and they each offer their own type of experience .To illustrate, let’s start breaking things down to the CPU speeds.
The iPhone is quite straight forward. The current generation of iPhones (iPhone 4S & 5) are easily capable of handling the most graphically demanding tasks with their standard Q5 & Q6, each with dual and tri-core processor chips respectively. The beautiful thing about it is that the CPU in each of these phones can handle logical and video processing all in one chipset smaller than the thumbnail of a newborn baby. So playing Asphalt 8 or Modern Combat 4 will be a walk in the park.
My personal pet peeve about the IPhone for a long time has been the screen size (only 4 inches). This can be cumbersome for gaming as on-screen buttons already take up 15 percent of the screen’s real estate.
The flagship Android handsets not only boast speed in their quad and octa core processors but also have the most ideal screen sizes for enjoying games at high-quality settings. Since there are dozens of different Android processors and hundreds of Android handsets, I would recommend the major players: Samsung S4 & S5, Note 3, LG Optimus G2 and Motorola RAZR HD.
These are arguably just a handful of devices and by the time you are done reading this article another Android phone will be on the market that tops all of those I have mentioned above.
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And remember, keep on gaming 😀
