Thread: Sailfish on Turing Phones?
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JulmaHerra is offline JulmaHerra
2016-04-08 , 12:07
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#378
Originally Posted by nthn View Post
I wouldn't really enjoy having to wait multiple seconds for the keyboard to open. I get frustrated when this sometimes happens on my Jolla phone for whatever reason, not really because I'm in such a hurry but because a phone shouldn't struggle with one of the only two things it's supposed to do right.
True, however it's not uncommon when some app is launched for the first time. In that video there was noticeable delay when keyboard was opened for the first time after reboot and opening messages. After that it was noticeably faster and in general the device is quite usable. Jolla struggles with these things when OOM-killer kicks in after some heavy usage and it can be very frustrating at times. Reboot helps, usually I reboot after one or two weeks uptime.

The keyboard and the messaging application should probably be held in memory at all times, like the calling application. Of course, with only 1GB RAM, this wouldn't leave a lot of options for other applications to run concurrently. Looking it up, the iPhone 4S apparently only had 512 MB RAM, so it does seem to work alright.
iPhone 5S with 1GB RAM works very fast and is pleasant to use in that regard. Having decent performance with slower SoC and 512MB RAM is not bad at all, using up to date software. In that regard it looks like there's still much to optimize in Sailfish. Anyway, it will be interesting to see how Sailfish works with better SoC and increased RAM.
 

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