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Apple iPhone 7 Plus Packs 3GB RAM, Early A10 Fusion Benchmarks Look Very Strong (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes from a report via HotHardware: Apple's A10 Fusion processor, paired with the iPhone 7, is already making its mark on benchmark circuit. Although you may or may not be impressed with Apple's new handset, as usual, Cupertino's latest smartphone is looking very strong performance-wise. According to Geekbench numbers, which showcase the iPhone 7 Plus running iOS 10.0.1 (Golden Master), the 5.5-inch smartphone has 3GB of RAM onboard (the iPhone 7 reportedly contains 2GB RAM). Compared to the previous generation iPhone 6s Plus, this is an increase of 1GB. Compared to Android flagships, which come with 4GB or even 6GB of RAM, 3GB might seem paltry. However, benchmarks show time and time again that Apple's SoCs are among the fastest in the industry and simply do more with less resources. Apple says that the advances it has made with the A10 allow the processor to be twice as fast as the A8 in the iPhone 6 Plus and 40 percent faster than the A9 in the iPhone 6s Plus. The iPhone 7 Plus received a Geekbench single-core score of 3233, while its multi-core score comes in at 5363. For comparison, the beefy A9X processor in the iPad Pro -- also paired with 3GB of RAM -- puts up scores of 3009 and 4881 respectively. Likewise, these numbers far outpace those of the iPhone 6s Plus, which delivers 2407 and 4046 respectively.
I'm with you on this one and have been using bluetooth headphones every day for several years now. I find it interesting to see how many people walk around holding their phone in their hand, wires danging.
Why not just bluetooth to the phone, put the phone away in your backpack and not have to worry about wires being caught on things?
Of course they are not "white ear-buds" so everyone knows i have an iphone (i dont actually have an iphone either).
To those who say bluetooth audio sucks:
You do realise i am using headphones on a busy train using compressed MP3s on a phone... Not in a studio using high quality equipment right?
Yes, i have to charge them, the ones i have last 5 hours (consistently) and i charge them every few days (i charge the phone more often then this and the headset charges in like 30 mins max).
not having to have my phone in my hand and still being able to can change songs, adjust the volume, etc is a huge added bonus (pause, previous, next, mute, and answer are all buttons on the bluetooth headset which are easy to access).
Then again, if you are a hipster you need to be seen walking around with the newest iphone in your hand, how else do others know you have it?
"The processor benchmarks are pointless...Having a dual core CPU probably doesn't help either."
That really sets the tone.
"...what matters is how fast stuff actually happens and Android is generally faster at opening the same app etc."
Considering how much more Android has to do, that seems unlikely. It is also historically never been the case.
"Probably because Samsung flash memory is quicker or something,..."
Yeah that's probably it. No one has access to fast flash except Android.
"...or maybe it's just the massive amount of RAM in high end models....The 3GB of RAM is welcome, but I wonder if iOS can make optimal use of it."
Yes, perhaps Android is faster because it has more memory, but if iPhone gets more memory it can't make "optimal use of it".
"My GF has an iPhone 6 with a rather pathetic 1GB of RAM, and she is constantly "cleaning" by closing apps manually to avoid it getting slow."
No she's not. This does not benefit phone performance in any way.
"Considering everyone else's flagships are moving to 4GB and 6GB now, 3GB is still rather low for such an expensive device."
iOS requires less memory than Android because its applications are native. iPhones have always had less processor and memory but outrun Andoid anyway.
"It's going to be hard not to laugh the first time I see someone with that setup."
You won't because such setups aren't needed. First off, iPhone users will migrate away from headphones that require dongles and, second, phones don't commonly need to be plugged in to listen to music. When they need charging you stop listening.
You are a moron with an agenda.