the transitions to the sections of the Zen Garden has some hiccups. the actual animations of the sections (leafs blowing, fish, etc.) ran good. it was only the transitions that were stuttering.
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Why I sold my iPhone 6 Plus
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the transitions to the sections of the Zen Garden has some hiccups. the actual animations of the sections (leafs blowing, fish, etc.) ran good. it was only the transitions that were stuttering.
I'm starting to think this person traded their phone in, not fully understanding what the issue actually was. Haha.
Unfortunately, that's the nature of things when someone passes away. Their opinions up to or at the time of their death are considered as eternal, and we never get to see how they would have evolved and changed over time.
In regards to anyone selling this, how do we even know that the issues with Zen Garden with the Plus
aren't because of software optimization hiccups? Even if it exists solely on one phone or the other, it doesn't mean they don't have issues with the scaler on the 6 Plus.
Even on the 6, if you trace some sand in Zen Garden, it doesn't feel like its real time like tracing in a paint program.
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Everyone has there own opinions. All of us respect yours. I personally don't have the issues you do. I just turned on my iPhone 5 yesterday as now it's my iPod. I do notice lag but didn't before and largely because of how smooth my 6 Plus runs. Battery life is the best of any smart phone I have ever had.
Best of luck on your new device.
Best of luck on your new device.
its not a dealbreaker for me its just very noticeable especially when comparing my 5 next to the my Plus. Things like sliding up and down on the notification center or control center just feels better on the smaller 5. Like i said, the Plus isnt a snail by any means its just when comparing it to its smaller counterparts its just not as nearly as buttery smooth.
I have found that I bend the phone slightly it will fit my hand better and will not slip out
It just begs the question whether an update can fix it or not.
I did notice swiping pages had lag at times on the Plus I tried, but that doesn't seem to be an intensive GPU task, and neither is pulling down a notification bar.
I'm not claiming to know this for fact obviously, as I'm not a software techie or knowledgeable on coding.
For me, it was between the Note 4 or the 6 Plus. I was coming from a 5S and the 6 really underwhelmed me. I just need a bigger screen though, so I bit the bullet and ordered a 6 Plus. The fact that my iPhone and my rMBP sync so perfectly made the decision a lot easier.
The 6 is already a large phone for me....it does not have the comfort of being able to reach whatever I want on the screen like the iPhone 4 once did...even the iPhone 5 was a slight stretch for me but the 6 was more siginificant. I still really love my 6 though and there are more benefits than downsides for me...however the 6+ would be far too much phone for me...I think I might have been able to get used to a 6+ but I just made things easier on myself and got a 6.
For those actually noticing the slight lag the 6 Plus produces in animations and such, i just messed around with my 6 Plus settings and i turned ON "Reduce Transparency" and switched the Display Mode from "Standard" to "Zoomed" and the flow of the whole phone from transitions to animations is such an immense difference. I know its been concluded since iOS 7 that the "transparency" feature takes a lot of resources out of the phone which is why there has always been a slight lag with transitions such as sliding up and down notification center and control center on the lock screen but it definitely shows there is a scaling issue and hopefully this can be fixed VIA a software update. My 6 Plus now operates as fluid as the regular 6 in terms of animations and transitions.
I can. The original iPhone was just as slippery. It's the curved edges and smooth surfaces.
On comments made by others on Jobs, I have to agree that it's a mistake to over burnish his image now that he's gone. Jobs had plenty of high profile failures in his time at Apple going all the way back to the Lisa. Let's not forget the heinous E-Mac, the "puck" mouse, the super ugly "bondi-blue" iMac, the lamp-arm iMac, the square iPod mini and so forth. It was never all wine and roses with him. As with all visionaries he hit some out of the park and wiffed others badly.
Zen Garden on the 6+ seems like a joke. It crawls through area transitions. I can't believe this is the one that was chosen to show off the power of the phone and "fps speed". To respond to the rest of the thread, the 6+ does lag, considerably. My iPhone 5 running iOS 7 and my 5s running iOS 8 are both faster opening and working in native apps as well as navigating into and out of 3rd party apps. Safari runs slower and the opening of new tabs and apps lags behind the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s. I know many are saying "it's working just fine for me". I guess it depends on your idea of "working fine". Is it something that is going to be detrimental to our everyday lives? No. But should Apple's most expensive, top of the line phone costing close to $1,000 run undoubtedly slower than their own phones made 1 and 2 years ago? No, it really shouldn't. The specs should have been beefed up. Simple as that
I've definitely experienced the mag and app crashes. The app crashing I am sure is a result of no optimization for the new devices. I remember it happened a lot when we got retina displays with the 4. Crossing my fingers that the ui lag can be fixed with an update. There were claims when 8.1 was still beta that it fixed it. Nope. Not for me anyway (though in some instances like going from portrait to landscape while in a video it's better).
You'll see people chime in here saying: "I see no lag". These people are either lying or simply don't notice the lag.
This is because lag is objective, not subjective. Speed can be measured and it's somewhat easy for people to notice when a computer is slow or slower than what they're used to.
I started a poll about iPhone 6 Plus Lag literally days after the new iPhones launched (linked to below). I was hoping that iOS 8.1 would fix it and it doesn't. The lag is as present as ever. One major pattern I notice with people complaining about lag is transition effects. For instance, switching between Apps. Or opening an App (e.g., calculator). There's a longer delay I find for things like drawing up the UI of an App, particularly when it hasn't been opened. Try opening the calculator App on an iPhone 5S and then on the 6 Plus to see an example of lag drawing up the UI.
Also, pressing the home bottom to be taken home often results in a longer delay before anything happens than my 5S. There's lots of other examples.
The iPhone 6 Plus feels exactly as the iPad 3 did. It's annoying as hell but I've decided to stay with the 6 Plus. I'm at a point where I don't think the iPhone is that much better than an Android smartphone like a Note 4 or Sony Z3. The lag is part of this reason.
I also agree with you about the slippery construction and awkwardness. The top and bottom bezels are bloody huge. They need to make this thing less tall physically. That would be a start in helping with the size.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1791582/
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Dude the reduce transparency won't really change anything. I've had that setting in place since day one and it's lagville.
You're experiencing the placebo effect.
You sound like me.
I had a 6 plus, then a 6, then another 6 plus, and now a note 4.
And Im having iphone withdrawals big time.
Fml.
Try it along "zoomed" display and simple transitions such as swiping Notification Center are much faster. There's actually a "bounce" now to my notification shade when it hits the bottom of the screen. I also notice how much faster the animations for the predictive text above the keyboard are . It's definitely not placebo cause reverting back to default I notice have much more laggy these simple animations and transitions are.
After the wifey let me use her 6+ one or twice
Good shout, saw some guy with it in his shirt pocket last night - stuck out at least 1 1/2" above pocket line. Begging to fall out
You must live in a parallel dimension
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8554/the-iphone-6-review/6
Iphone 6+ is consistently better than 6 in almost all the GPU benchmarks. There are just a couple where its higher resolution results in a slightly lower score than the iPhone 6, but they basically are the best on the market.
Call the iPhone 6 or 6+ GPU as "inferior" tell me a lot about how much do you understand on the matter.....
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Maybe he has a defective iPhone.... When I read his comment about the "inferior GPU" I just rolled on the floor....