Wow... it is REALLY nice to use a 5S again...
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duffman9000
macrumors 68020
I believe it. My wife's 6 ran iOS 8 much better than my 6+ for a long time. I haven't compared the two recently.
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I owned both when iOS 8 was released. The 5S smoked my 6+. The 6+ was laggy and stuttered often using the same content as the 5S. Sometimes I thought I'd even see hitching in the downscaling. As in content seemed to pop into place at the very last second.
iOS 8.3 runs much better. This is how the phone should have shipped.
skywalkerr69
macrumors 6502a
My Fiance's iPhone 5S was horrible running 8.3. She had nothing but problems with it. She went through 4 replacement phones. Had to contact their executive customer support or escalations technical department. She had to install software and do a log every time there was an error or something went wrong so Apple could figure it out and document it. We tried clean install, re install, install from iCloud. Everything.
Errors ranging from on all 4 phones
Phone randomly calling someone
wouldn't hang up
freezing all the time
unable to open apps and when they did they wouldn't close (initially Apple blamed the developers but then we tried the Apple apps and it still did it)
unable to make a call
among others
It was a really bad experience that soured her for apple products lol. She ended up getting a Samsung Note 4 and she enjoys it.
I haven't had any real issues running 8.3 on my iPhone 6+. Waiting .0002 seconds for a Safari to reload a page doesn't bother me. I use a 5S running 8.3 for work and it lags non stop, sometimes doesn't even load the Apple apps lol. It was brand new out of the box. Funny how people have such different experiences.
Errors ranging from on all 4 phones
Phone randomly calling someone
wouldn't hang up
freezing all the time
unable to open apps and when they did they wouldn't close (initially Apple blamed the developers but then we tried the Apple apps and it still did it)
unable to make a call
among others
It was a really bad experience that soured her for apple products lol. She ended up getting a Samsung Note 4 and she enjoys it.
I haven't had any real issues running 8.3 on my iPhone 6+. Waiting .0002 seconds for a Safari to reload a page doesn't bother me. I use a 5S running 8.3 for work and it lags non stop, sometimes doesn't even load the Apple apps lol. It was brand new out of the box. Funny how people have such different experiences.
Sounds more like bad installs (or restores from backups) or just bad hardware in some sense.
skywalkerr69
macrumors 6502a
Yeah it's possible. When it got real bad Apple sent us the 4th phone and we did a fresh install (on all the phones) with the tech on the phone and they verified it through our desktop. Still had issues. Maybe she's cursed. Oh well, just glad it's gone and I don't have to hear the complaining.
kargurin
macrumors 6502a
Really isn't in the overall smartphone picture. I posted a poll the other day where only 3pct. prefer a 4 inch screen phone. I don't know anyone who owns one. I think it's a tight niche.
mmartinezs
macrumors regular
Great phone one of my favorites iphones
teknikal90
macrumors 68040
I've learnt to not trust 'business insider'
They're just a bunch of college co-op students blogging
BMcCoy
macrumors 68000
PPI is not resolution (and thus total number of pixels).
BMcCoy
macrumors 68000
And when the term "higher resolution" is used, it is colloquially understood to be referring to Pixel density NOT a bigger display at the same density.
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So if you read that an uncoming device had a "higher resolution" screen, in your mind you'd be expecting it to be just bigger, with exactly the same pixel density??
As i understand it, 'image resolution' is the detail within an image.
'pixel resolution' is the count of pixels.
'Spatial resolution' is the pixel density.
..and when ppl refer to higher resolution displays, they are generally referring to higher spatial resoltuion, rather than any other type of resolution.
But i dont mind if you only use the term higher resolution in terms of pixel count.
Resolution refers to resolution, while pixel density refers to pixel density. Separate items. One isn't attached to the other in some way.
It's like speed and distance traveled--you can be going 100 miles per hour, but you can travel 100 miles (in an hour) or 1000 miles (in 10 hours). So when someone talks about just the distance no particular implication is made about the speed or vice versa.
BMcCoy
macrumors 68000
Indeed, 'pixel resolution' and 'spatial resolution' are different.
When you use just the term "resolution", that is insufficiently precise to clearly define what you ar talking about.
The word is linked to our visual processing, or the 'resolving power' of the eye, which does actally refer more to the density of an image than its overall size.
When you use just the term "resolution", that is insufficiently precise to clearly define what you ar talking about.
The word is linked to our visual processing, or the 'resolving power' of the eye, which does actally refer more to the density of an image than its overall size.
Regardless he was clearly talking about resolution when it comes to processing power. And in that case the 6 has a higher resolution then the 5S.
Resolution has a well set meaning when it comes to use related to consumer electronics. It's been used for years when it comes to monitors and TVs and laptop screens and more recently phone screens--in all these cases it's what you seem to refer to as the "pixel resolution" even though it's normally just referred to as resolution and has been for years.
You can certainly try splitting hairs about technical details and differences about different aspects of what's related, but the word has had a fairly established public definition that has been in use and understood by people for a good amount of time now.
Zaft
macrumors 601
Its not about PPI, higher resolution is more taxing on the gpu.
Keep in mind that the 6/6 Plus only has a 25% performance gain over the 5s in benchmark tests. The larger screens and higher resolution absorbed most of the efficiency and computing improvements for the newer models.
Also, the 5s already went through most of its growing pains with iOS 7, largely due to the transition to the 64-bit platform. Under the early versions of iOS 7, my 5s had a lot of instability issues.
But, with iOS 8, it has been very solid since version 8.0.2, and the performance with 8.3 is at least at the level of 7.1.2. Only one lockup under all versions of iOS 8, zero Safari crashes, and only one currently installed app that has had any recent crashes.
Depending on what iOS 9 brings to the table, I am tempted to simply leave things at iOS 8 until much later. And at this point, I am also likely to keep my 5s for a while, since I prefer the 4" screen size (easy to pocket, easy to use with one hand).
Also, the 5s already went through most of its growing pains with iOS 7, largely due to the transition to the 64-bit platform. Under the early versions of iOS 7, my 5s had a lot of instability issues.
But, with iOS 8, it has been very solid since version 8.0.2, and the performance with 8.3 is at least at the level of 7.1.2. Only one lockup under all versions of iOS 8, zero Safari crashes, and only one currently installed app that has had any recent crashes.
Depending on what iOS 9 brings to the table, I am tempted to simply leave things at iOS 8 until much later. And at this point, I am also likely to keep my 5s for a while, since I prefer the 4" screen size (easy to pocket, easy to use with one hand).
What I do like better on the 6 design is the curved glass edges so you feel smoothness for every swipe whereas the 5s had the abrupt drop off to the sharp chamfered edge.
Plus the screen on the 6s are closer to your finger than the 5s depth wise. I know Apple worked hard to make this subtle but noticeable add happen.
Plus the screen on the 6s are closer to your finger than the 5s depth wise. I know Apple worked hard to make this subtle but noticeable add happen.