Hopefully I'll be on a Nexus before it happens. This is the biggest mistake I've ever purchased. Camera is total crap. Always had been. Then I'll put a bullet thru this overpriced POS.
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and the battery life is poo
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well, the Snapdragon 810 is a power-hungry, intermediate step to the Snapdragon 820, "Kryo architecture",
for Sony or Qualcomm it's one of the first ARM64 (64bit) processors,
also it seems that the mixed ARM64, ARM (32bit + 64bit) Android experience is far from optimized.
Hopefully this changes with e.g. Nougat
You get more power compared to e.g. ARM Cortex A15 (Snapdragon 800, 801),
however the efficiency is around 15-25% worse at least for Cortex A53 (little cores), under heavy load, the Cortex A57 cores should be more efficient,
to
really get the most out of it (not only focusing on e-peen comparisons of e.g. Antutu Benchmarks) in terms of Battery runtime,
you could do some "weird" modifications, which I'm sure not everyone would be happy with:
e.g. overclocking the A53 cores way more (depending of cores if the SoC can take it), and limiting big cores (A57) to e.g. only 2 and slightly underclocking it (similar to Snapdragon 808),
then doing several modifications to the HMP scheduling algorithm to aggregate apps more aggressively on already running cores, etc. etc.