American troops change to iPhone 6s as "Android performance is low"

ByKārlis Dambrāns

Small phones, which can be said as small computers, are spreading not only in the lives of the general people but also in the military sites where advanced performance is required. Even in the US military unit, Android smartphone is introduced as one of the equipment to carry out the strategy, but in reality it is likely that the performance of the terminal is low, it will affect the strategy, switch to iPhone 6s It is reported that work is proceeding.

Army SOF to Trade in Its Androids for iPhones | DoD Buzz
http://www.dodbuzz.com/2016/07/15/army-sof-to-trade-in-its-androids-for-iphones/


U.S. Army switching from Android to the iPhone 6s due to poor performance | 9to5Mac
http://9to5mac.com/2016/07/18/us-army-switching-from-android-to-iphone-6s/

The one reported to be transferring from Android to iPhone 6s is unified command of the special operation troops of the US militaryUS Special Operation Armyis. In the same army, an Android terminal which installed a dedicated application "Android Tactical Assault Kit"To the soldiers to use it for the execution of the strategy, but it seems that a big problem also occurred in the actual operation aspect.

The Android Tactical Assault Kit used by the unit is believed to be based on Samsung's Galaxy Note. During operation, the route on which the ground troops advance and the unmanned aerial vehicles in the sky (UAS) At the same time on the split screen to make it useful for the execution of the strategy, but in fact the motion gets frozen and falls into a state that it will not be refreshed properly even after rebooting There seemed to be many. As a result, we wereted valuable time during the operation of the military, so we are considering reviewing the equipment.


The terminal which emerged as an alternative is iPhone 6s. According to the military officials, the iPhone seems to be "operating fast, smooth, Android will settled" as actual operation experiment using iPhone 6s is also started. Also regarding the playback of images sent from the UAS, it is reported that the motion is seamless and graphics are beautiful on the iPhone, it is unbelievable.

According to 9to5Mac reporting this matter, the point is what generation model is the Galaxy Note. If it is an early model that appeared in 2010, it can be said that processing speed is inferior, but when it comes to a model that appeared in the past few years, the performance difference seems to be quite interesting .