I saw there is indeed another thread about the new A7 processor on the iPhone 5S, but I was just wondering about the future of hardware and software of phones in general. How much can hardware progress? The A6 chip is already extremely fast on the iPhone 5 running iOS 7, Im assuming the A7 chip will provide almost unnoticeable improvements in terms of speed and performance. But still, I haven't had a hands on the iPhone 5S myself.
Perhaps Safari will load pages 1 second, a hair quicker, apps will launch maybe 3 seconds faster.
I know people hate this, but I was wondering what is in store instead for the A8 chip in next year's iPhone? Or even the A9, the A10? To emphasize, this is not a speculation thread about what does the iPhone 6 has, but generally processors in general. In my opinion, its time phone manufacturers, not just Apple, should start focusing more extesively on power consumption (Which is what Apple does do, in almost every chip upgrade) as well as battery life.
To be honest, I would scoff when Android manufactures start to boast about how many cores the processor in their phones have, how much clock speed each core can run. To me, those are moot if the software isn't optimized. I own an iPhone 5 and a Galaxy S4, and cue those Galaxy S4 owners who say their devices are FASTER than the iPhone 5, I can honestly say both are on par. The difference between them in terms of real world performance is almost identical. To be biased, shame on the S4 for having a processor which is almost twice as fast as the A6.
Here's the real question: what exactly is the bottleneck to real world performance now? Why is benchmarks improving by heaps and bounds, x2, x4, or even x6, but yet real world performance in terms of app loading so on and forth not improving linearly parallel to that of benchmarks?
Perhaps Safari will load pages 1 second, a hair quicker, apps will launch maybe 3 seconds faster.
I know people hate this, but I was wondering what is in store instead for the A8 chip in next year's iPhone? Or even the A9, the A10? To emphasize, this is not a speculation thread about what does the iPhone 6 has, but generally processors in general. In my opinion, its time phone manufacturers, not just Apple, should start focusing more extesively on power consumption (Which is what Apple does do, in almost every chip upgrade) as well as battery life.
To be honest, I would scoff when Android manufactures start to boast about how many cores the processor in their phones have, how much clock speed each core can run. To me, those are moot if the software isn't optimized. I own an iPhone 5 and a Galaxy S4, and cue those Galaxy S4 owners who say their devices are FASTER than the iPhone 5, I can honestly say both are on par. The difference between them in terms of real world performance is almost identical. To be biased, shame on the S4 for having a processor which is almost twice as fast as the A6.
Here's the real question: what exactly is the bottleneck to real world performance now? Why is benchmarks improving by heaps and bounds, x2, x4, or even x6, but yet real world performance in terms of app loading so on and forth not improving linearly parallel to that of benchmarks?