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iOS 5 runs smoothly on a 3GS, a phone older than the Nexus One.
by chugger 15y ago
iOS 5 runs smoothly on a 3GS, a phone older than the Nexus One.
- beej71 15y agoBut the last official update for the 3G turned it into a dog. I don't think any company is blameless, here, but I'm far more disappointed to see Google doing it. Linux still runs on a 386, last time I checked.
- chugger 15y agothe 3G is 4 yr old. the Nexus one is only 1.5+ yr old. here are two issues: 1) Android is suffering from feature creep / bloat 2) Unresolved design issues are biting them in the ass
- saturdaysaint 15y agoFWIW, many report that iOS5 actually makes the 3GS faster. Anandtech ran some benchmarks that show the 3GS on 5.0 being faster than the iPhone 4 on 4.3 at many tasks!
- archangel_one 15y agoI'm not convinced that you could run a 3.0 kernel image on a 386 without running out of RAM pretty soon, even if you cut it down to something pretty minimal. I haven't found any sources where anyone's actually installed modern Linux on one - they all seem to have used ancient distros because support actually vanished some time back (see eg. here: http://hackaday.com/2011/08/12/installing-linux-on-a-386-laptop/ http://hackaday.com/2011/08/12/installing-linux-on-a-386-lap...).
- beej71 15y agoI stand corrected, but you have my curiosity up. Nevertheless, the "decline" of hardware in the face of software advancement in phones strikes me as awfully rapid. Is the Nexus One really so underpowered that ICS couldn't be made to accommodate it?