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The best in what category? iPhones?
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Here is why the iPhone 6/6 Plus didn't get more RAM.
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http://www.phonearena.com/news/Our-...s-are-done-both-trail-the-competition_id60920
The best in what category? iPhones?
Multitasking is generally what causes the Safari reload issue on iPhone and iPad. Enough programs eating memory, coming back to Safari and the pages have to reload because that memory has been given to something else. Another part is that Safari does seem more prone to reloading tabs even on the desktop, that's just one of the reasons why I don't use it and prefer Chrome or Firefox instead.
I'm guessing Apple's thinking is that they want to deliver the latest version of the page (instead of using a possibly out of date cached version) but didn't account for filled input fields or slow connections making the process really aggravating.
For the record web browsers are serious memory hogs in general. Right now I see a few Chrome processes eating a few hundered megabytes in Windows 7 and several more using anything from 6-50 MB. Consider a similar situation on a mobile device and you can see that there can be quite significant memory use there as well.
I wasn't making any connections between RAM and battery life.
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Go check reviews from places that aren't on Samsung's friends list like C|Net, The Verge, Engagdet, etc.
PhoneArena has a poor testing procedure; they fail to standardize the nit levels across all phones, which heavily skews results in favor of lower brightness displays.
Anandtech has a more thorough and comprehensive test so it's better to wait for them. Their preliminary results show iPhone is going to be at the top of the pack.
So maybe CNet, The Verge and etc are on Apple friends list?
iPhones always had high WiFi browsing time, however talk time and standby were the weakness.I have 5S and i'm not impressed by battery life which gsmarena and phonearena also confirms. It is ok if you surf the net via WiFi but when I start using 3G or 4G full reception battery dies so fast...
I do understand well that iPhones doesn't high capacity battery but saying that it has best battery life among other flagmans is a joke.
So maybe CNet, The Verge and etc are on Apple friends list?
I have 5S and i'm not impressed by battery life which gsmarena and phonearena also confirms. It is ok if you surf the net via WiFi but when I start using 3G or 4G full reception battery dies so fast...
I do understand well that iPhones doesn't high capacity battery but saying that it has battery life is a joke.
It's just after 1am my time, and I've had my 6+ off charger since 9am. The battery is currently at 27% after 16 hours. My 5s couldn't last that long even with a Mophie case. So having battery life is an observable fact, not a joke.
I don't care who started what. It is no excuse to retaliated how it was being done. And not just here, it is cross posts. It is all so childish.
According to Apple battery life tests 5S vs 6 no huge improvements. Maybe in real life it will be better
Here is why the iPhone 6/6 Plus didn't get more RAM.
Blimey, this is getting worse then the conflict in the Middle East. Honestly i don't think it was in the same constant level as what this vga dude is forcing down the threads. Just my view and reaction to a particular post that was way ott in my opinion.
Btw I'm not picking on anyone.
Blimey, this is getting worse then the conflict in the Middle East. Honestly i don't think it was in the same constant level as what this vga dude is forcing down the threads. Just my view and reaction to a particular post that was way ott in my opinion.
Btw I'm not picking on anyone.
I agree with Techgod...if you want to be the internet police, you need to pay a bit more attention and hand out your slaps on the hand to the party that instigated or both.
Who are you trying to convince, because no one asked for clarification.
I'm perfectly fine with subpar specs and the ability to only have 1/4 of 1 tab open in safari.
I have no problem scrolling through thousands of low memory crash logs.
So, you're not here to convince me. I content with mediocrity.
I'm also no internet police. Jeez what is up with people. I saw as post I didn't like the sound off and thought was in appropriate and voiced my opinion. Nothing more and nothing less. Not picking on people, no policing of the forums or anything.
To me I did not see another post that made me feel compelled to express my opinion. If you disagree, then fine why don't you express your opinion on that post instead of elevating me to some kind of important heights.
All this; but he said this first, or he looked funny at me first is such childish playground stuff.
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According to Apple battery life tests 5S vs 6 no huge improvements. Maybe in real life it will be better
6 no. 6 plus there is a huge difference. And as technically proven through the strip down the capacity is much larger so no great surprise.
I'm getting the same thing on my iPad Air. http://youtu.be/ZWf9vCWvE4k
It's gotten to the point that I almost can't visit The Verge site anymore. Not sure if the problem is resources on the iPad, or if it's some bad code on The Verge, but it sucks either.
Yeah, if the iPad Air 2 has 2GB of RAM I'm probably pulling the trigger and my wife will get my old Mini 2. If the extra RAM doesn't fix the problem, well then shame on Apple, lol.
In my experience, iOS uses about 800MBs RAM when Safari isn't running. So Safari really doesn't have a whole lot of RAM to work with.
These are the speeds I get on my 128GB iPhone 6+. This is faster than most platter based hard drives
Memory usage in Apple OS's is not clear cut like that. If 800mb is used it doesn't mean that it is being "used", but reserved. The RAM handling is dynamic. Lots of preloading and cacheing of apps in order to save time and also memory writes in and out and hence battery.
They come in 1, 2, 3, 4 GB Drams for the same size and design for a smartphone. Apple is just to cheap to pay additional cost for the upgrade!
I'd love 2GB of RAM and whenever possible I like to double up on RAM, when building PC's I've been known to ram as much RAM (pun intended) as possible...maybe in a simple minded effort to just make things "better" but I've been using my rMBP which I only got 8GB of RAM for and compared to the 16GB RAM models its not insanely different...only difference is when I start doing INSANE things in video editing, I'm not talking about transcoding high res video I'm talking about doing some crazy ****** in After Effects and making the computer hot enough to cook breakfast, lunch and dinner....I don't think their is a whole lot on the iPhone 6 you can do that can push the RAM to the limit....I mean yeah opening a zillion tabs (which I am notorious for, I always have max tabs open) is one thing but I still find my phone to respond very well...
Apple is not simple minded... Merely ramming **** together and hoping it works better.
What's the point of this thread? Some people don't need more than 1gb of ram so that justifies to them why 1gb is ok in the iphone and others need more than 1gb which justifies why 1gb is not enough....
Apple came to a compromise on the engineering side and the business side. Most regular iphone users don't need or even know what 1gb of ram means so why put more in there? Being business savvy their going to cater to the majority who make them their money.
Apple came to a compromise on the engineering side and the business side. Most regular iphone users don't need or even know what 1gb of ram means so why put more in there? Being business savvy their going to cater to the majority who make them their money.