Big GUI Speed Difference between iPhone 4 and 4S?

[Wolfpup]

It comes down to reasonable threat--it doesn't really exist to be reasonable enough to just say it's plain unsafe and that's that. One extreme isn't better than the other--can't say it's completely safe, but it's not doing much good to say it's just unsafe (and imply it's basically essentially useless in that respect because of it).

It's dangerous, period. It's irresponsible to tell others to use it.

As for 3GS and 4, the 3GS uses a 600 MHz Cortex-A8 (perhaps downclocked from 800 MHz, while a 4 uses 1 GHz Apple A4 (even it might be downclocked to 800 MHz or slightly lower). Although Apple A4 is based on Cortex-A8 it's still not the same thing.

They both use A8s, one's 600Mhz, the other's 800Mhz, as I recall.

 

[C DM]

It's dangerous, period. It's irresponsible to tell others to use it.




They both use A8s, one's 600Mhz, the other's 800Mhz, as I recall.

So, just to make sure and clarify, no one should be using an older version of an OS or even app at all? As an example, when Apple didn't provide an iOS update for the original iPad users who basically couldn't go beyond iOS 5.1.1 at that point, as soon as iOS 6 came out, the only rational/reasonable/responsible thing to do for all those people with that device was to stop using it and essentially probably even dispose of it (so that no one else could use it either)?

As for the CPUs, also just to make sure and clarify, one is Cortex-A8 the other is Apple A4 (that uses Cortex-A8), but there's more than just a name change there. And even just on MHz, a 200 MHz jump in these kind of numbers is not something that is basically the same. Again, as far as hardware overall, which includes much more than the CPU and GPU, the phones are not basically the same, especially to an end user.

 

[Wolfpup]

So, just to make sure and clarify, no one should be using an older version of an OS or even app at all?

Like I said, it's probably fine to use it for things that only connect with known safe servers...Nook, Netflix, calendar, 'apps' like that. Anything that might be connecting anywhere though is a security vulnerability. The only "protection" is just if bad guys don't bother exploiting it.

As for the CPUs, also just to make sure and clarify, one is Cortex-A8 the other is Apple A4 (that uses Cortex-A8), but there's more than just a name change there.

Not in terms of the CPU/GPU.

Again, as far as hardware overall, which includes much more than the CPU and GPU, the phones are not basically the same, especially to an end user.

Compared with most of Apple's updates they're practically the same. 3GS was a huge upgrade. 4S was a huge upgrade. 5 and 5s are huge...3g and 4 not so much.

 

[RoboWarriorSr]

Like I said, it's probably fine to use it for things that only connect with known safe servers...Nook, Netflix, calendar, 'apps' like that. Anything that might be connecting anywhere though is a security vulnerability. The only "protection" is just if bad guys don't bother exploiting it.







Not in terms of the CPU/GPU.







Compared with most of Apple's updates they're practically the same. 3GS was a huge upgrade. 4S was a huge upgrade. 5 and 5s are huge...3g and 4 not so much.

The 4 was a "huge" upgrade depending on how you see it, it had the first major redesign since Apple went polycarbonate on the 3G.

 

[Xenomorph]

The 4 was a "huge" upgrade depending on how you see it, it had the first major redesign since Apple went polycarbonate on the 3G.

The iPhone 4 was the slowest upgrade with any new hardware bump.

Yeah, it had stuff like high-res screen and camera flash, but the guts were very much an overclocked iPhone 3GS.

3G to 3GS and 4 to 4S were bigger jumps (internally and performance-wise) than the 3GS to 4.

Benchmarks ran by 3rd-party groups (AnandTech, etc) and even Apple's own graph showed that there wasn't a big jump from 3GS to 4 (~33% speed bump, expected from pushing the clock from 600MHz to 800MHz).

(No change from the original iPhone (2007) to iPhone 3G, as the internal hardware was nearly identical.)


That being said, to the OP, go with the iPhone 4S all the way.

Compared to the iPhone 4, the 4S has:

* much faster CPU and faster memory
* better camera
* twice as fast cellular downloads
* no grip of death on the GSM version (see: antennagate)
* 7 times faster GPU
* Siri!
* turn by turn navigation
* bluetooth low-power

and so on...

 

[RoboWarriorSr]

The iPhone 4 was the slowest upgrade with any new hardware bump.

Yeah, it had stuff like high-res screen and camera flash, but the guts were very much an overclocked iPhone 3GS.

3G to 3GS and 4 to 4S were bigger jumps (internally and performance-wise) than the 3GS to 4.

Benchmarks ran by 3rd-party groups (AnandTech, etc) and even Apple's own graph showed that there wasn't a big jump from 3GS to 4 (~33% speed bump, expected from pushing the clock from 600MHz to 800MHz).

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(No change from the original iPhone (2007) to iPhone 3G, as the internal hardware was nearly identical.)


That being said, to the OP, go with the iPhone 4S all the way.

Compared to the iPhone 4, the 4S has:

* much faster CPU and faster memory
* better camera
* twice as fast cellular downloads
* no grip of death on the GSM version (see: antennagate)
* 7 times faster GPU
* Siri!
* turn by turn navigation
* bluetooth low-power

and so on...

Yeah I know that, that's why I have the 4S. To the majority of people, they see a new design and think "radically different!" as evidenced by most reviews of the 4s calling it "the same old thing". And the upgrade from the iPhone to the iPhone 3G was even slower since the July difference between the original and 3G was 3G. At least the 4's SOC was over clocked.

 

[Merkie]

I think the 4S is the biggest upgrade of all iPhones, hardware-wise. It's the first iPhone that had a top-notch CPU/GPU and could be classified as "fast".