Have Windows Phone updates improved or degraded performance?

[salmanahmad]

Hi, everyone. To those of you who have used the Windows Phone platform for a long time, I would like asking a few things. Moving up from one Windows Phone to another did you over the years see performance improvements or no?The question popped up into my mind when I compared the scrolling performance on a few apps. The Kik Messenger app that was never optimized for Windows Phone 8, may lack a lot of functionality however if you scroll up and down the messages that you have sent they scroll smoothly, very smoothly. And I would believe that the Kik Messenger app doesn't even take advantage of more than one core(because WP7 didn't support multi-core) yet the app is so smooth.However in Whatsapp for Windows Phone 8.1 if you scroll too fast your messages disappear, this issue wasn't present in the Windows Phone 8 version of Whatsapp.I could also point out the Music and Video apps that have become slower since the arrival of Windows Phone 8.1, but then again there are apps that have become faster like the Facebook BETA and the arrival of the amazing of OneMusic app that is so fast.So have Windows Phone updates made it faster or slower, or it depends on the optimization of applications?

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[Keith Brooks]

I haven't been using Windows Phone long. However, I have been using pc's long. It all boils down to your phones hardware and if the apps you use are optimized for it. For instance my pc has a 8 core cpu, 16 GBs. of ram and 2 Nvidia GeForce GTX 760's in sli. The only software that really takes advantage of this is Windows 8.1, video conversion software and games.It truly boils down to how the software developers write and code their software.

 

[salmanahmad]

I haven't been using Windows Phone long. However, I have been using pc's long. It all boils down to your phones hardware and if the apps you use are optimized for it. For instance my pc has a 8 core cpu, 16 GBs. of ram and 2 Nvidia GeForce GTX 760's in sli. The only software that really takes advantage of this is Windows 8.1, video conversion software and games.It truly boils down to how the software developers write and code their software.

I know but if an operating system puts in place restrictions for the app developer, there is no way for him to make it faster.

However optimization does play a key role, for example since all PS3s have same/similar hardware developers have been able to run Watch Dogs on it's 512 MB RAM, however because of the diversity of hardware and software on PCs Watch Dogs doesn't run on PCs with 4GB of RAM.

But daamn Kik is so well optimized even today, if only they supported WP even today. Shame.

 

[xandros9]

I found my performance to go down slightly overall, but it is well worth the features obtained.

 

[Abdul Rahman Noor]

I don't know if it's just me, but I've found that moving from WP8 to 8.1 Dev Preview dramatically slowed down Nokia Camera - it now takes more than 4-5 full seconds before the app launches.

Apart from that, everything has been positive in general.

 

[pankaj981]

Cyan should fix or atleast improve overall performance comparable enough to WP 8