Within a year or two, there will be a significant amount of area on T-Mobile's network that will have expanded coverage due to B71. 4x4 MIMO will help everywhere, due to antenna diversity, and even more in areas that have 4x4 MIMO deployed. The X is fine this year, but a year or two down the road, it will be very long in the tooth on T-Mobile, and it's not even cutting edge on AT&T or Verizon. If I had to buy a new phone today, I'd be OK with the 8 Plus or X on AT&T, but if I was on T-Mobile, I would definitely be looking for either a cheap Android phone I could replace in a year or two like the Moto X4 Amazon Edition, or something that already has B71, i.e. the S7 Active or V30.
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Does the X need more RAM?
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Within a year or two, there will be a significant amount of area on T-Mobile's network that will have expanded coverage due to B71. 4x4 MIMO will help everywhere, due to antenna diversity, and even more in areas that have 4x4 MIMO deployed. The X is fine this year, but a year or two down the road, it will be very long in the tooth on T-Mobile, and it's not even cutting edge on AT&T or Verizon. If I had to buy a new phone today, I'd be OK with the 8 Plus or X on AT&T, but if I was on T-Mobile, I would definitely be looking for either a cheap Android phone I could replace in a year or two like the Moto X4 Amazon Edition, or something that already has B71, i.e. the S7 Active or V30.
That's fine, not inferring anything. But you said multitasking on the iphone, which confused me because you can't multitask on an iphone.
Multitasking doesn't necessarily mean split-screen usage.
Another vid re:RAM management.
Loading Apps faster on the X, but re-loading resulted in many needing to re-start...
Although, many of these apps (games) aren't ones I use, so it shouldn't impact how I use the phone so much...
Loading Apps faster on the X, but re-loading resulted in many needing to re-start...
Although, many of these apps (games) aren't ones I use, so it shouldn't impact how I use the phone so much...
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Anyone know if setting all apps to "Background Refresh" in iOS increases the performance of the reloading in the above tests.
Okay? Believe whatever you want. I didn't have any issues in this regard with my 7 Plus or my iPad Pro either.
I don't think the RAM management on the X is optimized yet. Hopefully, it will be.
Maybe. I can only go by what I see. Just scrolled through 15 apps, all were active.
I have a lot of stuff refreshing. I've seen far better optimized versions of iOS.
I don't think it's an issue with iOS11. I've seen people mentioning that the A11 chip could be the potential culprit. It seems that the newer iPhones are more aggressive in removing apps from the memory. This is the best comparison I've seen thus far:
iPhone 8+ vs iPhone 7+. Both on iOS11. Spoilers: The iPhone 7+ destroys the 8+. The results for the X seems to be about the same as the 8+. Apple needs to improve this in future updates. I think they are overly aggressive in reserving RAM for the A11 chip (maybe for machine learning or whatever). It's ridiculouss
Yep. I can absolutely say that my iPhone X is dumping apps out of memory noticeably more often than my 7 Plus did.
Apps reloading doesn't bother me. It is that most apps don't save and restore their state.
Other than quick-reply and perhaps controlling music, I can't think of any way the iPhone can multitask.
I can't even listen to YouTube in the background.
Thus far I’ve not encountered any performance issues. Quite the opposite truth be told. It’s something of a beast.
Basically performance is about the same as the 8/+. Mine benchmarks higher than the 8 series but in daily use I don’t detect any real difference. Everything happens ridiculously quick.
Basically performance is about the same as the 8/+. Mine benchmarks higher than the 8 series but in daily use I don’t detect any real difference. Everything happens ridiculously quick.
I don’t know. Maybe I am not seeing it? The last fantasty football app goes to reload, but is that a big deal to people? I just took a video but the file is too large to upload? I did see a reload on the last app.
That's why I kept ProTube v2.1. Lets me listen in the background and download locally to my phone.
It's very frustrating when it "reloads" back to an initial state, not where you left off. For example, leaving YouTube for even a few seconds means it will have to rebuffer everything (RIP data) at best, or it loads the app from scratch meaning I have to find that video again and then try to figure out where I was within it.
This is true of web page reloads as well since it's often not where you left off now that many web pages navigate all kinds of content on a single 'page' through some kind of web app(s).
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I wanted to get ProTube but when I was finally going to get it, Apple removed it.
Just wonderful.