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iPhone 4S users, will you update to iOS 8?
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This goes both ways because I do not agree with you? We have 4S,5 and 5S in our household (the 4s is used by the 12 years old daughter which probably puts the phone thru higher pace than both myself and my wife) and I never heard her complaining about her phone. It just works like Apple wanted it. Yes, both of our newer phones are faster, but so what? A half second delay here or there is not really taking away from the overall usability and experience. The iPhone 4S is still perfectly usable and fine phone with iOS7 and I am hoping it still will be on iOS8 as I am planning to upgrade it on day 1.
Yep. Nothing to do with increased functionality taking up more RAM and CPU cycles or anything like that.
Face it, mobile technology is moving fast. As new hardware gets more powerful, new software is written and old software is updated to take advantage of it. Apple isn't going out of their way to provide a bad experience on older hardware, but they're also not going to go out of their way to make it run as smooth as possible. There's only so much you can do with an A5 and 512 MB of RAM in 2014- and anyways, I suspect that the 4S is going to handle iOS 8 better than the 4 handles iOS 7.
This is smart if your usage scenario involves using your device like a mini computer, keeping the most apps open at once. Keeping the device on the iOS it came with gives you the best UI speed and free RAM to hold the most apps in memory. It also gives your device longevity because it prevents new iOS versions from slowing down your device. This keeps your phone performing at its best throughout its life, without performance degradation.
Not really for the 5, it still works perfectly smooth on iOS 8 and you get all the new features. Not to mention the security issue on iOS 6.
Each iPhone seems to get better and better support with its second and third version of iOS as time goes by.
I'm going to wait for some apps to be updated (for example some games will break when updated) before updating.
Since iOS 8 beta 5 is certainly slower than 7.1, iOS 8.0 GM will probably still be a bit slower than 7.1. I plan to wait and see how iOS 8 and future updates run on other folks' phones.
Beta performance can and usually is different than final so comparing against betas doesn't really provide good information.
Why iPhone 4S did receive an upgrade of the A5 45nm to 32nm like iPad 2 and iPad mini ?
It would have longer battery life and less heat !! My iPhone 4S battery goes up to more than 35 degrees Celsius when I use Internet. Very hot in my hand... And poor compare to iPhone 4S...
But iPhone 4S will have hand free control of Siri ? And handoff or SMS relay ?
It would have longer battery life and less heat !! My iPhone 4S battery goes up to more than 35 degrees Celsius when I use Internet. Very hot in my hand... And poor compare to iPhone 4S...
But iPhone 4S will have hand free control of Siri ? And handoff or SMS relay ?
It's a three year old phone...I would be amazingly impressed with Apple if it wasn't completely slow.
I swear, you people whine at Apple when they leave out features in new iOS versions for old phones because it will slow the phone down, and then you whine when the new OS is slowed down by all the other new features and animations.
Yes! I don't have a ton of money, and use a Sprint 4S on FreedomPop.
So, it's probably the last iOS it'll get
, but I know Apple is good at optimizing for older hardware, and they won't purposefully make it run slow. At this point, anyone holding onto a 4S isn't doing it because they think it's fast enough, it's because they have a good reason
So, it's probably the last iOS it'll get
, but I know Apple is good at optimizing for older hardware, and they won't purposefully make it run slow. At this point, anyone holding onto a 4S isn't doing it because they think it's fast enough, it's because they have a good reason Yeah. Sure. NO LAGS. NEVER. Pretty good is far far far away from being what it is supposed to be. iPad Air FLIES compared to my iPhone 4s. It's doing a pretty good job, but that's just about it. 4S saved it's ass only because it was the first dual core iPhone. Also, iTunes match is SUCH A PAIN, although i don't know how the music app as a whole works on 5s.
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You will be able to call and sms on your mac with an iPhone 4s. You just need a bluetooth 4.0 Mac.
I have a 4S bought new 3 years ago on Sprint which I now use on Ting. Any phone that I would get in the future would have to be flat out amazing for me to change from a $20 phone bill every month. Money talks in this instance, and the 4S has the basics down pretty well.
All this being said, iOS8 seems like it works well enough to me.
All this being said, iOS8 seems like it works well enough to me.
You are saying that mobile tablet hardware that is 2 years newer is great while 2 years older mobile phone hardware is just good and that's some sort of a major issue that is unacceptable? Seriously?
No. My issue with that statement was that it sounded like it was still perfect, no lags whatsoever, super fast etc etc. which is CLEARLY not the case. it's ACCEPTABLE at best.
Clearly it said a pretty good job, as you yourself pointed out, which isn't perfect (otherwise perfect would have been used in place of pretty good job).