iDevice.ro review: iPhone 3GS vs iPhone 4 vs iPhone 4S

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  The iPhone 3GS has been available on the market for over 2 years and unfortunately the new iOS 5 is starting to show the limits of the hardware of the old terminal of the Cupertino company. The iPhone 4S is much faster than the iPhone 3GS in all aspects: browsing the web, opening applications, taking pictures, playing games, and we are talking about two terminals that do not have a jailbreak. I think that at the moment any owner of an iPhone 3GS can seriously think about upgrading to an iPhone 4 or an iPhone 4S because as new versions of iOS 5 are released, more functions will be implemented and the differences in in terms of performance, they will increase considerably.

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    In the case of the iPhone 4, the differences in terms of performance are smaller, but they exist. In the menus, you will notice the smallest differences between the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S terminal, but when it comes to loading web pages, things change. Pages with a lot of graphic elements will load much harder on the iPhone 4 and navigating through them is more difficult, but in simple web pages the differences will be minor. The iPhone 4S loads web pages faster thanks to its new processor, but even in applications we will see the content displayed faster than on the iPhone 4 terminal. In applications such as the App Store or iTunes Music Store, the iPhone 4S does not have the same lag as the iPhone 4 and this is due again the dual-core processor implemented by Apple.

     For now, very few games are compatible with the new iPhone 4S, but you will notice that even the old ones open faster on the new Apple terminal. The games developed after the launch of the iPad 2 seem to benefit the most from the increased performance of the A5 chip and these differences will increase in the future after the developers update their applications for iOS 5 and the new iPhone 4S terminal. If Apple implements more new functions in iOS 5, there is a possibility that the performance differences between the two terminals will increase significantly.

     At the moment, an iPhone 4 owner will probably not feel the need to switch to an iPhone 4S and will wait 1/2/3 seconds longer to open a game/application or 5-10 seconds longer to opening a web page, but in the future there may be many who will want to buy the faster iPhone 4S.

     For the video material, thanks go to Evomag.