Sieghard, THanks for sharing the article and it was pretty interesting. I do not know either about the ram beyond what has ben said, but even the normally reliable sources are not Apple, so correct that we do not know until the horse speaks. I really believe it matters little about how many cores at the end of the day. Because if the software is not leveraging those extra cores it will be of little benefit in the end. What does matter as the article points out is the size of the chip and so forth. I'd rather have longer battery life than speed. I believe there is a balance where you can achieve good battery life and still retain good performance. Obviously the other factor is how well the OS has been optimized to leverage the architecture of the hardware. I really have no complaints about the performance of my 4S and find few occasions where it bogs down. What I'm more interested in is the overall battery life and if there is a marketable increase or about the same and the level of overall performance. However, what is more interesting to me is the increased audio quality from the internal speaker, not that I have any complaints about the 4S. Now that aluminum case sounds nice and how the whole package is assembled is something I do want to check out. I get the impression that how the phone itself is manufactured is pretty impressive including how the screen is constructed.
Scott On Sep 14, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > From all I read and heard the A6 is not a Quad Core and may not even have a > Quad Core GPU (graphics processing unit) as is the case with the A5X which > is in the new iPad. Here is a link to an article, it's a bit technical, but > it makes it clear that we don't know exactly yet what the specs are until > one of those places that takes things apart really takes a closer look. > Apple certainly did not say at their event, they did not even say or > emphasize that the iPhone 5 has 1 Gig of RAM, I think most people expect it > does, but Apple to my knowledge has not confirmed this. The article makes it > clear that the number of Cores, and Neil pointed this out already, is > definitely not the only benchmark for getting better overall performance and > also that battery life is a big factor when it comes to decisions on which > CPU is chosen. The size and architecture of the CPU apparently are even more > important than how many Cores it has and apparently the iPhoen 4S, for > example, runs only at about 800 Mhz clock speed with its A5 CPU and yet it's > considered to be one of the faster phones out there, it's very snappy and > responsive. Just as an example, I once tested an LG phone 3 years ago which > had a 1 Ghz Snapdragon CPU with Windows Mobile 6.5 and MobileSpeak, it was a > touch screen phone with slide-out keyboard and it was unbelieveably > sluggish. OK, Here is that link: > > http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/what-do-we-know-about-apples-new-a6-pro > cessor/ > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
