if you want to do useful things you do. And larger screen will cost more ram so a iPhone 6 will be crashing apps more than a 5s
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Alleged iPhone 6 Geekbench Results Reveal 1.4 GHz Dual-Core A8 Chip, 1 GB of RAM
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if you want to do useful things you do. And larger screen will cost more ram so a iPhone 6 will be crashing apps more than a 5s
John Gruber is guessing that both models will have the same hardware outside of battery. I'm not so confident. Apple never talks about RAM on their iOS devices so they could easily slip 2GB in the 5.5" device and not tell anyone.
Of course I wouldn't want Apple to purposely gimp the 5.5" device just so it isn't "better" than the 4.7". But at the same time it will suck if they purposely leave things out of the 4.7" to create artificial differentiation or because they think they need to in order to get people to pay $100 more for the bigger screen. They don't seem to have that problem with iPads so I'm not sure why they would with iPhones.
Ask the developer of whichever browser you're using.
Apple owns the hardware and the software. Microsoft owns the software and has a reasonably solid rein on the OEMs. Which is why they can offer more efficient APIs to their developers, so they get advanced features for free. Garbage-collection, allocation, de-allocation, compression, etc.
Android is everyone for themselves. Perhaps you lucked out.
https://www.google.com/search?q=android+developer+memory+management
Not disputing iOS being efficient, but a 2012 forum isn't the best source for your argument.
We're assuming this is real? I'm still under the assumption the leak was fake. There were so many inconsistencies with the leak and if you pay attention and look close enough you can see that it is indeed fake so the test bench results are fake too. Don't believe everything you read. I much rather trust reputable sources like nowhereesle who debunked this leak already who has credible leaks. I don't know why blogs keeps posting crap from this dude like its real. It's not.
Yeah because those iPad 1 specs were just amazing.
I don't have issues with Safari tabs constantly reloading on my 5s. But on the iPad Safari is a dog. I know I won't be purchasing a new iPad if it's still 1GB RAM.
1G ram SUCKS
I manage to find a solution for the "always tab refresh problem on Safari/Chrome browser"
Baiscally, download the app iCabMobile browser. There is an option to turn off "Unload tabs when memory full", and there is an option to "Show Memory Warnings" , and "Memory Savings Mode". With these 3 options, I was able to run more than 7 tabs at a time (and each tab have a lot of words and many pictures in the page) without the tab refreshing itself due to memory issue.
Give a shot and try. It works for me.
I manage to find a solution for the "always tab refresh problem on Safari/Chrome browser"
Baiscally, download the app iCabMobile browser. There is an option to turn off "Unload tabs when memory full", and there is an option to "Show Memory Warnings" , and "Memory Savings Mode". With these 3 options, I was able to run more than 7 tabs at a time (and each tab have a lot of words and many pictures in the page) without the tab refreshing itself due to memory issue.
Give a shot and try. It works for me.
Keep telling yourself that when your 64bit iPhone 5S/iPad Air start seriously lagging on iOS 9.
No, but you don't recover from inherent design inefficiencies that quickly. And developers don't change their habits that quickly, especially when many devices are still using OSes from exactly that timeframe (the oft-touted Android version fracture): https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html?utm_source=ausdroid.net
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Will see if this pans out to be true. If so it is somewhat dissapointing. While general performance of the iPhone with 1 GB of RAM is good, the limitation comes with gaming. Especially with some of these newer games coming out like Bioshock. It really limits developers for iOS. May stick with my Android devices for my phones....still looking forward to the event though.
The 1 upside I can see for 1GB of Ram in the iPhone 6 is for those who are not going to be upgrading. It means older devices should be ok running newer apps (unless they specifically need some hardware). Devs will have to keep their apps fully optimised. (Tries to look on the bright side )
)Remember.. real use nearly always beats numbers and benchmarks
If the iPhone is tweaked to run super smooth on 1 GB ram, then I don't see a problem
If the iPhone is tweaked to run super smooth on 1 GB ram, then I don't see a problem
You don't know what you're talking about. It's doing better than the g3 in that benchmark. If you're getting caught up in specs, you should move to android. Great phones and they'll satisfy your need to boast about specs
Considering the A7 in my iPad Air returns results of 1480 & 2681, that's not a huge performance leap. Can't see these being real given how Apple loves it's emphasis on "up to 2 times faster" at keynotes.
Im sure no matter what, people will still be queuing for miles for the device and all the worries will be forgotten come the live stream.
Pointless bitching and moaning about it until after Apple announce the iPhone 6, that geekbench score could be a photoshop.
But if it does turn out to be right, it not really much of an upgrade over the 5S is it really spec wise, it obvious the main selling point on the 6 is the screen & maybe the camera oh and NFC.
But on the plus side it bodes well for those planning on keeping their 5S for another year, as it means it isn't a massive leap over what the 5 to the 5S was & the camera is still very much up there with all 2014 smartphones & iOS 8 will add some new features aswell.
I think the 6S will be the one to go for, or if rumors are true then it may not be called the S anymore and jump straight to 7.
But if it does turn out to be right, it not really much of an upgrade over the 5S is it really spec wise, it obvious the main selling point on the 6 is the screen & maybe the camera oh and NFC.
But on the plus side it bodes well for those planning on keeping their 5S for another year, as it means it isn't a massive leap over what the 5 to the 5S was & the camera is still very much up there with all 2014 smartphones & iOS 8 will add some new features aswell.
I think the 6S will be the one to go for, or if rumors are true then it may not be called the S anymore and jump straight to 7.
I'd hate to disappoint you further, but I'm certain the new iPhones will break all smartphone sales records.
The 1 upside I can see for 1GB of Ram in the iPhone 6 is for those who are not going to be upgrading. It means older devices should be ok running newer apps (unless they specifically need some hardware). Devs will have to keep their apps fully optimised. (Tries to look on the bright side
That's right, but next year they'll most likely move to 2GB of RAM, so iPhone 6 will start having memory problems.
The sooner they move to 2GB the better is for customers