Does the extra GB of RAM on the 1020 really make any difference in performance over the 1GB on the 925? Or is that extra GB really reserved for just the camera>?
Does the extra GB of RAM on the 1020 really make any difference in performance over the 1GB on the 925? Or is that extra GB really reserved for just the camera>?
A 2gb device will heat up less.
Not necessarily. The 1020 and 920 utilize practically the same chipset. That is, same CPU/GPU combo. This means that apart from optimization, you have near zero difference between the two phones, since they share nearly the same design and screen resolution.You won't notice any difference unless you play graphic intensive games like GTA San Andreas. A 2gb device will heat up less.
Not necessarily. The 1020 and 920 utilize practically the same chipset. That is, same CPU/GPU combo. This means that apart from optimization, you have near zero difference between the two phones, since they share nearly the same design and screen resolution.
Well thanks for the input! I just can't get past the terrible battery life by 1020 had been getting. I love the 1520 but I'm afraid I'll get it and hate it because...well its enormous.
I read something related to ram, saying that WP8, has a limitation for apps not being able to use more than 130mb of ram/ per app. Which lead to getting the resume more frequently, as apps had to be frozen outside of ram. Now this limitation changed, creating something called dynamic ram or something like that, giving 1 gb devices an upper limit of 260mb, and 2gb devices, 520mb which will make apps faster.
Now I didn't grasp the concept correctly, I'm not a programmer and have very little understanding of such things, I just wrote the above to remind you guys about the subject, would like to get the right idea from someone who actually knows what he is saying unlike me.
You are correct that WP8 apps are limited to a specific RAM quotas. This is also true of WP8 apps running under WP8.1. This is what MS has to say on the issue:
App memory limits for Windows Phone 8
The rest is incorrect however. The quota's were MS' way of "determining" how much RAM an app can use, without actually knowing. That is completely unrelated to the necessity to unload apps from RAM (you called this freezing, which is better suited as an analogy for CPU rather than RAM related behaviour). Ultimately, every OS must unload apps from RAM when there simply isn't enough to load the next app. That is true whether a quota system is used or not.
WP8.1 no longer uses a quota based system. WP8.1 employs a far more sophisticated memory management system than what WP8.0 had, but is even harder to explain. It definitely would require a lot more text than what I'm willing to write here. If enough people are interested however, we could maybe open a separate thread on the issue.
I hate it when my phone is using either 3G or 4G it gets hot. and That annoys me. It might damage my phone internal or melt something inside. LOL. .
Thanks for the elaboration, I guess there is a 1 hour video on how apps work that Channel 9 released, I think its this one, I hope I'm right because I can't watch it to check it right now.
The New Windows Phone Application Model | Build 2014 | Channel 9