What's there to think about? It runs fine on my iphone 5 and from other reports it runs fine on the 4S and iPad Mini as well.
This isn't Android where you need the latest/greatest hardware to run their latest software revision.
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iOS 7 much smoother on iPhone 5S due to 64 bit processing
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What's there to think about? It runs fine on my iphone 5 and from other reports it runs fine on the 4S and iPad Mini as well.
This isn't Android where you need the latest/greatest hardware to run their latest software revision.
There's no reason for you to doubt. It will most likely get iOS 8. Apple has never stopped updating 2 generations of the iDevices at the same time, and considering iPhone 4s is twice as fast in CPU and 7x in GPU (compared to 4), it means it will have enough to run iOS 8 (how it will run it is a different thing).
There's no reason for you to doubt. It will most likely get iOS 8. Apple has never stopped updating 2 generations of the iDevices at the same time, and considering iPhone 4s is twice as fast in CPU and 7x in GPU (compared to 4), it means it will have enough to run iOS 8 (how it will run it is a different thing).
Yeah it's going to be like the 3GS due to its internals, at least 4 iOS software updates before Apple ditches it. The reason it'll be ditch would be the lack of lightning connector and screen size. (One of the reason Apple stopped supporting 3GS is the not retina screen though I'm not too sure it would run ios 7 nicely anyway)
I would assume they stopped updating the 3GS due to it's limited RAM (only 256 mb)
That's another reason, but having a HVGA screen and not retina, 256 MB isn't too little compared to the 4th Gen iPod Touch which showed that 256 MB is barely enough to push retina and the operating system.
But iOS 7 is more resource hungry. 256MB definitely not going to cut. Even with 512MB, Safari frequently reloading pages.
if ios 7 runs slow on my iphone 5 that will be the end of apple products for me. Not gonna be suckered into that.
Technology moves on and people have to move with it or stay behind. As a matter of fact, Apple supporting a 3 year old phone with a new OS is impressive. Just have a look around and see how often the other phone brands/models get the latest OS.
although the animations and graphics would be much smoother on the 5S but it doesnt mean that the iphone 5 (and below) dont run it well enough. they run it flawlessly, havent found any lags, low-quality graphics.
I'm using my 4S and if I remember correctly I didn't reload pages frequently, either on iOS 6 and 7 (on the first 3 betas there were problems with Safari, contantly refreshing and slow, after beta 4 it became a lot better)
I think iPhone 5 will be pretty future proof. It is the only iPhone so far that got a significant CPU and GPU upgrade combined with upgraded RAM (4s only got faster CPU/GPU but retained 512 mb of RAM, and the 4 only got upgraded RAM, with CPU and GPU staying identical to 3GS (only 200 MHz bump to CPU, and slight bump to GPU).
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64 /= Smoother O/S. An architectural change will bring bandwidth benefits, but for O/S animations, noope! Already been proven that iOS:7 will look and feel great on an iPhone 5.
Secondly, I don't expect Apple to make animations appear smoother on the new iPhone compared to the 5. E.g. the opening and closing apps will look the same as on iPhone 5.
What I would suspect will be that the 5s will be in a usable state faster than the 5 after an animation. But this won't be because of an architectural change.
Either way, the 5s will be overall faster and nippy device.
64 /= Smoother O/S. An architectural change will bring bandwidth benefits, but for O/S animations, noope! Already been proven that iOS:7 will look and feel great on an iPhone 5.
Secondly, I don't expect Apple to make animations appear smoother on the new iPhone compared to the 5. E.g. the opening and closing apps will look the same as on iPhone 5.
What I would suspect will be that the 5s will be in a usable state faster than the 5 after an animation. But this won't be because of an architectural change.
Either way, the 5s will be overall faster and nippy device.
Wouldn't updating to the new 64-bit architecture require developers to overhaul their apps to support it? I am by no means a architecture expert, but it seems like there would be a significant gap between the current 32-bit apps vs. the potential for new ones.
That's what I said
. I own it too, and judging by some YouTube reviews of the 5 running iOS 7 beta it appears it is faster on 7 (beta) than on 6.For ex. Sun spider scores are better, and web pages load faster. (And it beats all the competition there with 2013 hardware
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Why do people continuously propagate this when it's entirely untrue. 64-bit has a huge array of capabilities that 32-bit does not.
Please provide sources of this, I'd like to understand why because this is the first time I've ever heard of this.
64-bit ARMv8 chips are going to be faster than 32-bit ARMv7 chips at the same clock speed and also more power efficient because one, the overhauled/simplified instruction set that they're doing for ARMv8, in addition to more specialized hardware registers for hardware-accelerated tasks.
The simpler the instruction set, the quicker it can process stuff per clock.
That's what I said
For ex. Sun spider scores are better, and web pages load faster. (And it beats all the competition there with 2013 hardware
it beats all the competition there with 2013 hardware? really? wow
Nice! I can totally understand people who are choosing to stick with their 5s but I've had my iPhone 4 for the past two years and it's feeling so old now. That's why I'll be first in line for a 5S. I'll probably go for the 6 as well when that comes out because it'd be another big upgrade.