It's not the % of increase it's how those %'s are used. Apple has been the best at getting more performance over what others are doing with the same tech. I wouldn't be worried about apple's 50%, they'll do just fine.
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A7 Processor to Be 31% Faster and 64-Bit, iPhone 5S to Support Motion Tracking?
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It's not the % of increase it's how those %'s are used. Apple has been the best at getting more performance over what others are doing with the same tech. I wouldn't be worried about apple's 50%, they'll do just fine.
Perhaps the ~30% speed increase comes with some substantial drops in power consumption?
Like Intel's Haswell CPU lineup, maybe performance gains have come secondary to dropping power consumption. I'm sure everyone would appreciate a decent increase in iPhone battery life.
Maybe Apple COULD have had a 2x speed improvement but only at the sake of NO battery life improvement or maybe a regression in battery life?
To be honest, I have never felt that my iPhone 5 needed more speed from a CPU standpoint. I could certainly benefit from more battery life, and perhaps a modest upgrade in GPU performance.
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Like Intel's Haswell CPU lineup, maybe performance gains have come secondary to dropping power consumption. I'm sure everyone would appreciate a decent increase in iPhone battery life.
Maybe Apple COULD have had a 2x speed improvement but only at the sake of NO battery life improvement or maybe a regression in battery life?
To be honest, I have never felt that my iPhone 5 needed more speed from a CPU standpoint. I could certainly benefit from more battery life, and perhaps a modest upgrade in GPU performance.
Scottie
The number "31" as opposed to "30" makes it sound authentic but "31%" is an entirely useless number. It could be the jump in clockspeed, instructions per second(IPC) performance, a benchmark according to a certain program at a certain clockspeed, or the GPU FLOPs number, etc. The only thing it tells us is the new chip will be faster than the old one.
In other words it gets the clicks to the site and some attention to the person who tweeted it, but doesn't give us any idea on the actual performance of the A7 chip. We don't know what kind of improvements Apple made to the chip or even how many cores it'll have. Not to mention the GPU is probably just as important but there's no information on it either.
My guess is that since the number is so specific, it's probably the boost in the CPU clockspeed of the chip.
You suspect wrong. I was like the biggest apple fanboy ever lol.
And I'm too deep entrenched in ios to ever move out of the platform.
The fact is, apple hasn't dont anything big with iphone since 2010.
It just hasn't.
And it looks like this year is not going to change that.
I'm disappointed in the progress in this platform. Defend it all you want but you cannot deny the stagnation.
Uh, many snapdragons and exynix (the samsung ones, however they're spelled) only got a 10-25% speed increase generation to generation. INTEL's chips only did roughly 15-20% with Haswell. How exactly do you think this kind of thing works?
Source? Exynos 5 vs exynos 4 is 2x faster
Exactly. My 4S was a significant upgrade over my 3GS. I'm sure this upgrade will be the same.
Clayton is legit. You can not believe it because of who signs his paychecks if you want, but that's pretty silly. You do know that All Things D and The Wall Street Journal are also owned by News Corp., right?
I think I can speak for a lot of people when I say the fingerprint scanner won't be a hit. The possibility that an intruder can steal my fingerprint is too risky. You can change a password, but not your fingerprint.
p.s. I think a slight screen bump would be great.
What exactly would a thief do with a copy of ur fingerprint?!?...Answer: NOTHING. BUT, if said thief did find a use for my fingerprint, he could get it off my car, doorknob, coffee cup, and just about everything else I've touched in and around my home or office. So if ur speaking for a lot of people, I am not one of them.
Google Now comes right to mind. iOS's "Today" is a very poor attempt at answering Google Now.
Don't bother with saying it is also available of iOS. The version on iOS is barely a shadow of the integrated version on an Android phone.
No, but with your fingerprint they would be part way there to fooling a fingerprint sensor into thinking they're you.
Just because Intel x64 processors could run 32-bit x86 code doesn't mean that 64-bit ARM processors can easily run 32-bit and 64-bit apps side by side.
Thus just confirms suspicions that iOS 7 is a transitional release into into 64-bit ARM "double digit" A-series processors.
Like how it was done in the Burlesque days. First, put new dresses and make up on the old girls. Second, introduce younger and leaner new girls with the same new dresses and make up. Third, have them perform side but side and clean out the dressing rooms of the old cast. The audience rarely notices.
Thus, I bet the big kahuna is iOS 8 (or whatever else they call it, frankly love to see something like "iOS 7 Big Sur") with a 64-bit third party API.
Then a few of us start to play the thunking game all over again as did the transition from 16-bit to 32-bit killed many an assembly desktop app suite.
Like how it was done in the Burlesque days. First, put new dresses and make up on the old girls. Second, introduce younger and leaner new girls with the same new dresses and make up. Third, have them perform side but side and clean out the dressing rooms of the old cast. The audience rarely notices.
Thus, I bet the big kahuna is iOS 8 (or whatever else they call it, frankly love to see something like "iOS 7 Big Sur") with a 64-bit third party API.
Then a few of us start to play the thunking game all over again as did the transition from 16-bit to 32-bit killed many an assembly desktop app suite.
They are designed to run 32-bit apps side by side with 64-bit ones. It's even backwards compatible to ARMv7. The OS still needs to be changed for AArch64 but that's besides the point.
I don't know if this is what Authentec is doing, but I would guess that in between the input and output of this sensor there will be some kind of "one way encryption" process.
It means that you couldn't recreate the necessary input using just the output data.
GCD already exists on iOS. Unfortunately people really don't use multithreading for grunt processing or background processing or even network connections. It's frustrating knowing this (I love using threading and I notice everywhere it's not used). The concept around multithreading and protecting data is completely foreign to many developers.
Who Cares!
Well, I'm going for the 5S come renewal time this November, that''s for sure! I'm still using the iPhone4 from July 2010. Still serves me well. I don't really much care whats rumoured or whats not. Fanboy nonsense really.
All I know is, as with apple products, it will hopefully be very good and very well built as it has been in the past. It will definitely best what I currently have, that's a given. That's all that really matters!
So, here's looking forward to another great 3 years with a new 5S come November.
Well, I'm going for the 5S come renewal time this November, that''s for sure! I'm still using the iPhone4 from July 2010. Still serves me well
. I don't really much care whats rumoured or whats not. Fanboy nonsense really. All I know is, as with apple products, it will hopefully be very good and very well built as it has been in the past. It will definitely best what I currently have, that's a given. That's all that really matters!
So, here's looking forward to another great 3 years with a new 5S come November.
+1. there is no doubt in my mind that this is the correct explanation. I mean, what else could it be?
As Apple has been at pains to tell us, the overall phone speed depends on a lot more things than just CPU not the least of which is GPU (which isn't even mentioned here).
This rumor mentions CPU only. this is clearly just the CPU clock speed.
sounds good. but i'm not sure motion tracking is what apple needs right now. unless they can do it in a much better way than samsung, it'll just look like they are copying them
How would people know that they want a fingerprint scanner when basically no phone has one?
As for screen size, I wish I could keep my 3.5" iPhone 4 forever because it's the perfect size for me. If Apple ever releases a 5" iPhone I certainly hope they'll keep the 4" models for people who want a device that fits in their pocket.