I played with my friends 6 today. There is no doubt about it, the 6 performs better than the 6+. it was very smooth and exhibited no lag that the 6+ had. I was also able to keep at least 6 programs in multitasking. When I had the 6+, 2-3 was the most I would get along with 2-3 Safari tabs.
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iPhone 6+ Lag
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I know but you have to admit that downsampling gets rarely done on computer or tv screens with retina level ppi (actually there are almost none). So one can argue if downsampling is a good idea on retina screens.
Actually, when comparing the iphone 6 to the 6 plus screen, the iphone 6 was even sharper on some occasions. Take a look at the photo app icon on the 6 and the 6 plus. You can clearly see that the 6 icon is sharper and the 6 plus icon is softer due to downsampling.
Do you guys get an accelerometer lag/stuck when taking photos or switching between apps? I constantly have to turn the phone the other way for it to finally get the correct orientation.
Screen rotation issues is are the only thing I've noticed as problematic with my 6+, especially with photos. Sometimes it seems like the Photos app thinks you were holding the phone in the opposite orientation than you actually were.
Other than that I experience no perceptible lag or other glitches.
EDIT: just thinking out loud, I wonder if folks with 16GB phones are more prone to lags than those with larger memory, owed to less overhead for virtual memory?
I can confirm the issue on the iPad rMini which leads me to believe it's an iOS 8 optimization issue very similar to the early months of the original rMBP. Yes, one year from now the 6S will not likely have this issue. The 6+ however, will also have drastically improved.
Micro stuttering is a good description. I also hear people describe it as dropping frames.
That's exactly what it is. This is the same issue that has ailed Android for years. Apple has gotten it right for every device except this one (and iPad 3 of course).
Downscaling is a hack. They should have waited to get the resolution panels they wanted. That's what Tim Cook says Apple supposedly does. Only release when it's ready.
I'd agree that there is some stuttering, my 6 plus seems to scroll badly, stuttering in safari in fact much worse than my worn out galaxy s3 did, not what I was really expecting moving to the iPhone and its making me undecided at the moment if I'll end up keeping the phone long term as I'm considering giving it a month or so to see if a software update helps and If not I may end up selling and getting a Sony z3.
The Z3 looks like it's a great phone (I'm in the U.S. so I have yet to be able to try one) with fantastic battery life, but in theory the A8 has much better performance than the Snapdragon 801 in the Z3, so ultimately I'd expect the 6 Plus to outperform it once Apple optimizes iOS 8.
Let's hope so as there is a lot I like about the iPhone and really don't want to switch, loving the slo mo video!
Your comment is making me wonder whether the 6 Plus chews up more RAM during normal usage than the 6. I monitor wired & active RAM usage with an app called system status. If you have access to it, could you comment on what usage is looking like after opening a routine set of apps (safari, email, etc)?
Because of how aggressively iOS caches apps that aren't on the screen, I'm not really finding any issues with lots of app reloading or tab reloading on the regular 6, provided I re-open the tab within half a day or do.
That's an interesting theory, particularly considering this tidbit about the insane sequential read (and write) speed of the NAND in iPhone 6 and 6 Plus from Anandtech's review (see graph below). Aggressive caching might be a sufficient substitute for holding apps in RAM when the NAND is this fast. Obviously not as fast as RAM, but fast enough to hold inactive apps for quick recall.
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It probably does. Maybe the desktop scaler is chewing up a slice of RAM to downscale. I returned my 6+, so I can't run the program.
It's not a sufficient substitute at all. Never has been. Instead of "obviously not as fast as RAM" you should be saying "obviously still not even remotely close to being as fast as ram"
I'm in a similar boat. Have you decided about switching? I'm also beginning to think of it like you're saying...I need that extra battery life but am I willing to accept the trade off when it comes to buttery smoothness?
Your post is unnecessarily belligerent and quite ignorant. The exact degree to which NAND is slower than LPDDR3 is inconsequential when the NAND isn't being used to run an active program. If its purpose is merely to store and recall inactive apps to RAM, then 250 MB/sec of sequential read is sufficient to pull most apps back into RAM in a fraction of a second.
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I haven't decided. The ability to comfortably put the 6 Plus with a silicone case on it in my front jeans pocket is actually a bigger concern to me than potential lag issues. For suit pants it's no issue, but I still like boot cut jeans.