Comments on: Memory on the iPhone 3GS – Up To 10 Times Better Performance Than The 3G?

By: patrickj

patrickj — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:12:26 +0000

In reply to Navec245. I'm pretty certain that's a jailbreak app, as in it requires your iPhone to be jailbroken to run it and it is not an app that would be allowed in the App Store. I'm not currently running my phone jailbroken, so that one is not for me right now.

By: Navec245

Navec245 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:43:05 +0000

I suppose if you tried out this program I have heard of called "Backgrounder" you could do some testing and let us know!

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:14:42 +0000

In reply to Anthony.

I wasn't actually meaning battery performance there; was more thinking of how well / smoothly the OS runs – lack of lag, speed etc. – but the battery hit is a good point to mention. Again, I'm hoping the 3GS could still cope well, and I would certainly trade some shutting down of push notifications for some real background apps if it came down to it.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:47:15 +0000

"I know that it’s always been said that Apple doesn’t want to allow background apps because it potentially does serious damage to the overall smooth user experience, particularly for novice users"

By that I take it you mean battery performance. The same hit on the battery would apply to both 3G and 3GS.

But yes this all makes sense. It's the same on the desktop. If you double the RAM, you get more than double the memory for apps. Because if for example the OS is using 50% of the memory before, then after the upgrade the apps get three times as much ram to play with rather than double.