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Jens Andersson
Personal blog · collectingsmiles.comhardwareprogramming
Jens Andersson writes Collecting Smiles, a personal blog at collectingsmiles.com about hardware and programming. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Touch input to screen latency - game devices vs. smartphones”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Jens Andersson's posts on measuring touchscreen input latency with a 240fps camera, comparing devices such as the iPhone 5, Galaxy S3 and Nintendo 3DS.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Touch input to screen latency - game devices vs. smartphones3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-03-25
What Hacker News says?
The creators of the drawing app "Colors!" for 3DS and iOS also tested their app's latency across a wide range of devices, and they achieved a 9ms latency in 2004's Nintendo DS: http://www.collectingsmiles.com/news/measuring-latency-in-co... Nintendo 3DS – 23 ms PlayStation Vita – 49 ms Surface Pro – 100 ms iPhone 5 – 81 ms Galaxy Note – 71 ms Galaxy S3 – 104 ms & Nexus 10 – 99 ms Galaxy Note 2 – 132 ms Wii U GamePad…
Comment linking /news/measuring-latency-in-colors-why-game-devices-are-better-for-games-than-smart-phones-2/
on “Penny Arcade – Surface Pro 3 update”Submitted Touch input to screen latency - game devices vs. smartphones as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor comparison, here's another set of benchmarks from a guy who appears to use the same methodology (240fps camera, count frames between input and screen response in custom lightweight apps). http://www.collectingsmiles.com/news/measuring-latency-in-co... iPhone 5: 81 ms Galaxy S3: 104 ms Galaxy Note: 71 ms Nintendo 3DS: 23 ms PS Vita: 49 ms And, to add a tv game console into the mix, apparently the latency between…
Comment linking /news/measuring-latency-in-colors-why-game-devices-are-better-for-games-than-smart-phones-2/
on “Apple’s iPhone 5 touchscreen is 2.5 times faster than Android devices”