> I struggle to recall the last time an app jerked and juddered into life.
I get jerks and judders all the time, but it's 100% the fault of the software.
Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
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Re: Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It’s just that over time my phone just slowed down iPhone? They throttle the CPU to make the battery look like it's not dying.
The reason for throttling after battery health dips below a certain point is to prevent the SoC from creating spikes in power demand that the battery is unable to service (which becomes progressively more likely as the battery degrades) so the phone doesn’t crash at inopportune times. Back in the mid-2010s when I was broke and getting by on a worn out hand-me-down iPhone I would’ve loved to have that feature. It real…
Any idea why it only happens to iPhones? I don't think I've noticed this on Androids, where the only impact of longevity is the lack of updates from the manufacturers and then Google Play Services starts to fill up the storage with updates.
Re: Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
#93> When was the last time you felt your smartphone really couldn’t cope? Every day since a couple years now. > I struggle to recall the last time an app jerked and juddered into life. I don’t. But here’s the thing: it wasn’t that way at first. It’s just that over time my phone just slowed down. Purging it of its data and unused software did nothing, I just had less and less available memory over time, and maps grew sl…
> It’s just that over time my phone just slowed down iPhone? They throttle the CPU to make the battery look like it's not dying.
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Re: Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
The reason for throttling after battery health dips below a certain point is to prevent the SoC from creating spikes in power demand that the battery is unable to service (which becomes progressively more likely as the battery degrades) so the phone doesn’t crash at inopportune times. Back in the mid-2010s when I was broke and getting by on a worn out hand-me-down iPhone I would’ve loved to have that feature. It real…
Any idea why it only happens to iPhones? I don't think I've noticed this on Androids, where the only impact of longevity is the lack of updates from the manufacturers and then Google Play Services starts to fill up the storage with updates.
It does happen to androids (at least my old Xperia xz2)
Re: Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
#95Does postmarketOS have something like Samsung Dex? It shouldn't be very resource intensive to run few TUI applications on external monitor.
https://liliputing.com/postmarketos-update-brings-hdmi-suppo...
Looks like it... exists. And not much more. I doubt it's a high priority for PMOS devs given that lot of internal hardware is still only partially working or not at all.
I really wish there was some startup that made a relatively affordable Linux phone that is competitive with modern phones in performance, stability, and support.
Re: Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
#96This keeps being postponed. For some reason Chrome OS isn’t being ported to Android devices. Motorola tried their take. Microsoft tried the windows phone thingy. Nokia had the N900 Linux phones. Even Android was supposed to run a Windows 11 VM just fine. Microsoft killed the Surface Neo. There was a phone shaped Windows PC called the Emporium or something, killed too.
This whole space has been cursed. You can hack some old Nokias or Androids to run windows on arm and have driver issues. You can use a handheld pc console like the GPD Win and get the LTE addon. But there’s no “this phone is a PC“ offering that is really viable.
I suppose having a Pinephone and running Linux is the best option right now.
I used a lap dock for a while (UPERFECT) which allowed me to plug a device via usb c and it would turn the phone into a basic laptop.
I wish there were serious efforts.
Re: Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about security updates?
As long as apps are kept up to date, I'm not sure that OS-level security updates make much of a difference. Most breaches happen due to malicious apps. I haven't heard of any cases where somebody cracked the OS security and accessed user data. Most of the world is not using the latest version of Android, and you don't really hear about viruses/malware like we used to with Windows machines in the '90s and '00s.
> I haven't heard of any cases where somebody cracked the OS security and accessed user data.
https://www.spiceworks.com/it-security/endpoint-security/new...
Re: Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't remember what the project was called, but many years ago I remember seeing a concept for a Linux phone that also doubled as your desktop when plugged into a hub.
You're probably thinking of https://www.cnet.com/reviews/motorola-laptop-dock-review/ or https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/6/9464639/microsoft-windows...
Nope, it was a Linux project.
Re: Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
#99> When was the last time you felt your smartphone really couldn’t cope? Every day since a couple years now. > I struggle to recall the last time an app jerked and juddered into life. I don’t. But here’s the thing: it wasn’t that way at first. It’s just that over time my phone just slowed down. Purging it of its data and unused software did nothing, I just had less and less available memory over time, and maps grew sl…
Not experienced this at all. Spare storage space (different from RAM, which is not where data is stored long term) should not impact performance. Perhaps you have malware installed on your device?
Then the malware is hiding in the system space, which for some reason takes over 70% of all my available memory.
I’ve heard that as systems update, they keep the old stuff around until you run out of memory. I haven’t checked, and I have yet to reset my phone to factory setting, but if that’s what’s really happening, that’s still unacceptable.
One reason for low memory being responsible for slow loading times, is on the fly (de)compression, to save what little memory the phone has left.
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#100The irony is that an iPhone is more a Personal Computer than any PC ever was.
What does this mean? With a personal computer I can do anything I want, for my own benefit. With an iPhone I can do what Apple gives me permission to do, subject to what benefits them.
Simply put, your iPhone contains your life. Whereas a PC is often just a tool, which can be used by multiple people in principle.