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A7 Processor to Be 31% Faster and 64-Bit, iPhone 5S to Support Motion Tracking?
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A7 Processor to Be 31% Faster and 64-Bit, iPhone 5S to Support Motion Tracking?
Also, HSPA+ is 3G, despite what that icon in your system bar says....but I don't feel like quoting more articles, so we'll let that go.
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So you admit I'm correct, no LTE. Fantastic. That's all I wanted.
Also, HSPA+ is 3G, despite what that icon in your system bar says....but I don't feel like quoting more articles, so we'll let that go.
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I'd gladly take a slightly larger device for longer battery life, I hope they do more that just bump the size to maintain current run times.
Motion tracking? I wonder what all the people who made fun of Samsung's S4 will say if apple try the same thing...?
I already learned not to upgrade to the latest iOS revision the hard way. My iPad 1 was perfect until iOS 5 :-( Therefore I get this year iPad 5. I will upgrade my iPhone 5 only up to iOS 8. I hope it will manage that fine. Keep my fingers crossed.
A7 Processor to Be 31% Faster and 64-Bit, iPhone 5S to Support Motion Tracking?
Apple has lost it's footing on innovation, but they've mastered refinement.
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All that translucency, more apps running in the background...something is going to stutter.
Apple will probably put thought into it. TouchWiz looks like it was designed by a color blind 5 year old. And those functions don't always work properly.
Apple has lost it's footing on innovation, but they've mastered refinement.
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I don't plan on moving my iPhone off jailbroken iOS 6.1.2 until I see some speed tests. I haven't seen anything in iOS 7 that my phone doesn't do right now. And there are no hiccups.
All that translucency, more apps running in the background...something is going to stutter.
A7 Processor to Be 31% Faster and 64-Bit, iPhone 5S to Support Motion Tracking?
Also, bleeding market share to larger screen devices would be a good indicator, too.
Whatever they add, I just hope it's not visible in the digitizer.
A good place to start would be a quick poll on what percent of people actually password protect their phone and would benefit from a 'faster' finger scan.
Also, bleeding market share to larger screen devices would be a good indicator, too.
Whatever they add, I just hope it's not visible in the digitizer.
Not really. I don't password protect my phone because it's annoying. I would start protecting my phone more with a fingerprint reader, assuming it worked quickly and consistently.
Am sure Apple will make it (if they do it at all) funcional and useful and not like Samsung for one of lifetime use (just like their ad where the persons eats ribs and wants to respond a call). If people dont use it like the windows tablets 5 years ago, then its like it never existed. The true innovation is when you make a technology useful for the user. If its not useful, its just technology, not innovation. After the maps app fiasco, Apple will be rly careful before releasing a new tech, hardware or software.
A7 Processor to Be 31% Faster and 64-Bit, iPhone 5S to Support Motion Tracking?
Just polishing up my Mission:Impossible spy kit, can't wait to start lifting fingerprints and unlocking phones
I plan to clog up the lockscreen with useful items via IntelliScreen for jailbroken iOS7...so it'll be useless to me.
Just polishing up my Mission:Impossible spy kit, can't wait to start lifting fingerprints and unlocking phones
For me it would not be about locking and unlocking.
Each time an App would ask for a password, you could simply touch the sensor to authenticate.
No fiddling with AppStore passwords, web site logins and so forth.
That's only for the purpose of maximum memory address space, not actual integer instructions. The instruction set itself is truly 64bit, but the maximum amount of physical RAM that is addressable by the chip is not 16 exabytes (2^64), but instead is 1 TB (2^40).
Every single person I know has password. Except me, I hate to type codes just to unlock my phone.
I hear you but I think your missing my point Apple would never use an A15 core as its to much of a power hog as its used today. Secondly the A6 processor is based off of Armv7 instruction set its not an exact duplicate as Apple has modified the cores.
Quad core configuration in a mobile Soc is not as efficient as it seems yes it has processing power but there's a lot more to it than that. Raw processing power will only get you so far, Apples way if controlling the OS while developing the software in tandem can reap just as powerful a combination not on paper but in the end result.
It's the great car vs the great driver argument, you can build the fastest car in the world but a great driver in a slightly less powerful car can still win the race because he has better tactics and experience.
With 32-Bit software (and almost everything still is 32-Bit software), it actually burns twice the bandwidth at zero benefit, because all those registers have to be filled with zeros.
There are only very few applications that actually benefit from or require 64-Bit hardware.
Also, addressing more than 4 GB RAM can easily be done with PAE ("Physical Address Extension"), which is something that all 32-Bit Linux kernels support.
Basically, history currently repeats itself once more. I remember the time when 32-Bit software was actually slower than 16-Bit software and when 4 GB RAM in a desktop computer were still something out of a Science Fiction movie...
So you admit I'm correct, no LTE. Fantastic. That's all I wanted.
Also, HSPA+ is 3G, despite what that icon in your system bar says....but I don't feel like quoting more articles, so we'll let that go.
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I'd gladly take a slightly larger device for longer battery life, I hope they do more that just bump the size to maintain current run times.
I agree with you on the battery size. I'm curios how ios 7s new true multitasking will be on battery life.
31% does matter. Because of all the stuff you (developer) don't do now, because of how 'sluggish' it feels when you try to implement it.
64bit will make it 2-4x faster at moving stuff around (most important, since VM stuff is pretty small value on a limited memory system), AND you can do a lot of things in memory stuff faster (e.g. encryption). And more accurate (where they have been using 32bit because of the bandwidth limitation)
iOS/iDevices leadership in 'response' is a key differentiator. As we move to 'motion detection' and 'facial recognition' and 'voice control' moving from 32 bit to 64 bit is more than 2X as fast in doing compute intensive stuff as you not only calculate and move 2X faster, you also remove a lot of assembly/disassembly of the payload).
We think a 0.1sec delay in screen changes as 'slow' (see amazon's study on that) and show 10% decrease in satisfaction. And that's just page turns for text/pictures.
We need a consistent 0.01-.05sec response to feel 'comfortable' in how a virtual device responds to our actions. I'm old enough to remember pinball machines I'd avoid because the paddles didn't respond accurately.
So... 64Bit is a big thing.
Depends on if it works or not. The problem with Samsung was adding 4 or 5 new features but none of them working very well. That's how they got the gimmick tag.
You should really think about what a person can do with your phone if they find it or steal it.
Look at the bigger picture.
- Get a 64-bit processor into the iOS devices running iOS apps better than ever.
- "Secretly" work on getting OS X to run natively on the ARM processor.
- Update Xcode to create universal binaries.
- Update MacBook Air with ARM processors leaving MacBook Pro with Intel processors.