Are you upgrading to 8 or keeping old iOS versions on your old phones?

rui no onna said:
The A8 CPU is only up to 25% faster and GPU up to 50% faster than A7. Comparatively speaking, this isn't that big of a jump from the A6 compared to previous generational jumps. It stands to reason Apple wouldn't make iOS 8 significantly harder on resources compared to iOS 7.
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Many people say that they see no difference. Others say new OS on old phone is unusable. In my opinion, the truth is somewhere in the middle. The new OS does not offer anything "must have" on my older hardware anyways. And I don't want to pay that small performance penalty on every app opening, transition and click..

I am typing this on my iPad 3 running iOS 5. Transitions are as smooth as they were on day 1. Another family member upgraded their iPad 3 to iOS 7 and there is a noticeable lag in app opening, screen transitions between the two.
 
Unless you have a phone with iOS 6 on it (or a jailbreak you want to keep intact) I fail to see any logical reason not to upgrade to iOS 8.
 
YES. upgrading to iOS 8 as soon as it releases on Wednesday. I will have that to get used to on my i5 until my i6+ ships
 
Appl3FTW said:
That's because ur iphone 5 cannot support the graphical beast if iOS 7. I don't know what 5s are you referring to but my 5s is a dream.
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I did speed tests of switching apps, with my friend and his 5S. My 5 was quicker.

Apple fixed this a bit by speeding up animations, we'll see with the iPhone 6 & iOS 8. Fingers crossed.
 
Dreamliner330 said:
I did speed tests of switching apps, with my friend and his 5S. My 5 was quicker.

Apple fixed this a bit by speeding up animations, we'll see with the iPhone 6 & iOS 8. Fingers crossed.
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Swirling rumors that Iphone 6 only benchmarked 21k on speed test... Just for reference, 5s is 20k and 5 is 10k. I don't know what the 6+ spec is but it should be an upgrade. Again we don't know if that is a legit test.
 
Appl3FTW said:
Swirling rumors that Iphone 6 only benchmarked 21k on speed test... Just for reference, 5s is 20k and 5 is 10k. I don't know what the 6+ spec is but it should be an upgrade. Again we don't know if that is a legit test.
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You know why I am hoping this isn;t true? because the floods od Android trolls saying the next gen iPhone is just last gen with a bigger screen will need to be sifted through and thrown away. Ugh... :mad:

Honestly, performance increase (except additional ram) was at the bottom of my list of what I was hoping for.
 
mtneer said:
Many people say that they see no difference. Others say new OS on old phone is unusable. In my opinion, the truth is somewhere in the middle. The new OS does not offer anything "must have" on my older hardware anyways. And I don't want to pay that small performance penalty on every app opening, transition and click..

I am typing this on my iPad 3 running iOS 5. Transitions are as smooth as they were on day 1. Another family member upgraded their iPad 3 to iOS 7 and there is a noticeable lag in app opening, screen transitions between the two.
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Iirc, A4 -> A6 and A5 -> A7 were up to 4x speed bump in terms of CPU and GPU. When you've got that big of a performance gap, you can expect that your 2-year old device won't handle the new OS well. This time, though, A6 -> A8 is just 2.5x CPU and 3x GPU at best so things aren't as bad.
 
lordofthereef said:
You know why I am hoping this isn;t true? because the floods od Android trolls saying the next gen iPhone is just last gen with a bigger screen will need to be sifted through and thrown away. Ugh... :mad:

Honestly, performance increase (except additional ram) was at the bottom of my list of what I was hoping for.
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It's okay, I know apple, most of the spec upgrades happen on the s series, we will be blessed with those next year and possibly a full sapphire screen.
 
lordofthereef said:
You know why I am hoping this isn;t true? because the floods od Android trolls saying the next gen iPhone is just last gen with a bigger screen will need to be sifted through and thrown away. Ugh... :mad:

Honestly, performance increase (except additional ram) was at the bottom of my list of what I was hoping for.
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Apple has said A8 was up to 25% faster CPU. Benchmarking wise, if A7 is 20K, then A8 is 25K at best so 21K isn't a big surprise. What they improved on was efficiency and thermals.
 
rui no onna said:
Iirc, A4 -> A6 and A5 -> A7 were up to 4x speed bump in terms of CPU and GPU. When you've got that big of a performance gap, you can expect that your 2-year old device won't handle the new OS well. This time, though, A6 -> A8 is just 2.5x CPU and 3x GPU at best so things aren't as bad.
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Well I sure hope so! But I won't be trying it out first. Someone in my friends and family will upgrade their iPhone 5 to iOS 8. I'll check it out on their set first..
 
rui no onna said:
Apple has said A8 was up to 25% faster CPU. Benchmarking wise, if A7 is 20K, then A8 is 25K at best so 21K isn't a big surprise. What they improved on was efficiency and thermals.
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I understand this. I am simply saying what will happen regarding benchmarks. Can;t site efficiency and thermals because we have Android phones that have incredible battery (not all, some specific models). Just saying it like I see it. People will come and poke fun. And then I will be sifting through those threads instead of the ones about "justifying my iPhone 6 or 6 Plus purchase"
 
Appl3FTW said:
But that should be 25k tho
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Keywords being up to. That doesn't mean in all cases. It could have 25% faster integer performance but only 5% improvement in floating point.

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lordofthereef said:
I understand this. I am simply saying what will happen regarding benchmarks. Can;t site efficiency and thermals because we have Android phones that have incredible battery (not all, some specific models). Just saying it like I see it. People will come and poke fun. And then I will be sifting through those threads instead of the ones about "justifying my iPhone 6 or 6 Plus purchase"
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I tend to just ignore those. Specs aren't everything. I'd much rather have an iPhone 5 running iOS 7 than a Galaxy S5 with TouchWiz. To be honest, I like Android and it's come a long way from Froyo/Gingerbread. However, I still don't get why anything running TouchWiz could be so unresponsive regardless of how fast hardware it has.
 
I agree it's not all about the specs, it's the efficiency in performance... 5s blows everyone out of the water.
 
Appl3FTW said:
I agree it's not all about the specs, it's the efficiency in performance... 5s blows everyone out of the water.
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I've found recent versions of stock Android to be plenty efficient. It's mostly manufacturer skins that tend to make everything so laggy. Use of cheap, slow NAND flash and no TRIM, too.
 
Dreamliner330 said:
Exactly.

How does smoothness & speed compare? Did you notice stutters on iOS7 with your iPhone 5? Better in iOS 8?
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There were issues on the iPad on some of the initial betas. Didn't upgrade the iPhone until the GM. Seems smooth but never noticed any issues with 7 either.

Interesting...I am running Yosemite on my Macbook Air and when my iPhone rings, the call also comes in on my macbook and I can answer it from there.
 
I've been running iOS 8 since it first came out in Beta. I love the step counter in the Health app. I also like the Safari handoff and the predictive test.
 
sracer said:
I kept my iPhone 4 on iOS 5.x for as long as I could before having to upgrade to 7.x. I'll be upgrading it to 8 on day-1.... it is currently a laggy stuttering mess with 7 and I can't imagine it being any worse with 8.
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iPhone 4 won't get iOS 8.

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ZBoater said:
Of course I do. Why wouldn't i? :confused:
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Because it may dramatically decrease the fluidity of your device.
 
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