It also faces stiff competition from one of the most popular phone-makers, Apple, and its iPhone 11. While the phone has notable updates compared with its predecessor, the Pixel 4, Google anticipates lower-than-usual Pixel 5 phone sales due to the coronavirus pandemic and is planning to produce only 800,000 units this year. The phone is currently on sale for $649, and it launched alongside the midtier Pixel 4A 5G, which costs $499 (£499, AU$799).
He also argues that the change in iOS 11.2.0 has ensured a slower performance for iPhone 7 as well. However, Poole is arguing that the performance drop for iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, and also iPhone 7 is deliberate and will lead many users to wrongly believe this is due to slow down in CPU performance, instead of battery issues.
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For those who remember, Apple had announced a battery replacement programme for some of the iPhone 6s series devices because the battery in these phones was not up to standard and likely to degrade faster, though the company had said it did not cause any safety issues. The reason why Apple might have done is based on the Reddit post, where a user argued that the company did this because many iPhone 6s phones were shutting down unexpectedly, despite battery replacement. The other issue, according to Poole is iOS and he writes, “ the difference between 10.2.0 and 10.2.1 is too abrupt to be just a function of battery condition.” He argues that Apple has “introduced a change to limit performance when battery condition decreases past a certain point.” The graph shared by Poole, shows that under iOS 11 this fluctuation in scores is much more pronounced.Īccording to Poole’s post, the problem gets worse for users as the phones and batteries age, which to be fair is expected in any smartphone as it gets older. In case of the iPhone 6s, which launched originally in September 2015, it looks like the phones running on iOS 10.2.0 appear more or less uniform in terms of scores, but for the same phone running on iOS 10.2.1 and iOS 11.2.0, there is one large peak in scores and smaller peaks around lower scores. Poole has shown on graphs the Geekbench 4 single-core scores for the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 7 running different versions of iOS.
According to Poole’s post for GeekBench, users with older iPhones saw the performance increase drastically as well as scores on GeekBench after they replaced batteries. The Reddit post has seen over a thousand comments, with the main post arguing that Apple tends to slow down iPhones with low capacity batteries, especially devices like the iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, etc. The GeekBenchpost draws from a Reddit post, which hinted that the iPhone performance was linked to the battery age.
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