14 DAY TRIAL // Software Physics has announced the release of AmpIt! for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, a jailbreak solution that promises to speed up your operations by as much as 50%, while also extending your battery life. [Updated, see below]
Sounds surreal, so don’t take the plunge unless you’re absolutely certain it’s legit. According to the press release, AmpIt! uses “new technologies” to increase the speed of apps on the iPhone and iPad.
At its heart lies “a library which is optimized for various system operations, including graphics, communications, and storage. Once installed, this library takes over many iOS operations and performs them much faster.” As a result, your usage will be speedier and your battery drain less rapid, according to the makers.
Again, take all this with a boulder-sized grain of salt. Not only does the solution require a jailbreak, its developers also force you to pay upfront without the ability to try before buying. The promotional materials on softwarephysics.com look a lot like those found on jailbreak-scam sites, so consider yourself warned if this doesn’t turn out to be what you’d hoped for.
Describing how AmpIt! achieves faster performance on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, Robert Stone at Software Physics says, “The developers of AmpIt! used years of experience in closely-coupled parallel processing for supercomputing on Cray and IBM, and high performance computing for financial market systems, to develop AmpIt!.”
“This means new algorithms that perform the hot paths faster and reduce contention of shared resources, reuse of previous computations and improved cache access of data, new ways to partition the work simultaneously over multiple processors, and even algorithm short circuits that significantly reduce the total concurrent work to less than serialized algorithms resulting in superlinear performance as processors are scaled,” Stone adds.
As our savvier users will notice, this statement doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. The terms thrown in there seem to be really random, and the repetition in the first part of the statement doesn’t help either: “The developers of AmpIt! used years of experience [...] to develop AmpIt!.”
While there is a slim chance this tool does what it promises, we’ve seen this type of advertising before and usually found it to promote a scam. At the end of the day, it’s your decision.
Here’s Software Physics’ site for full documentation. The clip below shows what the tool can do to speed up your device, but it provides little to no evidence whatsoever that it actually works. We’ll gladly update the story with the necessary corrections if we’re proved wrong.
Update: Despite the apparently shady press release (which Software Physics admits may not have been the best idea to approach the market), we're being told that AmpIt! is indeed a legitimate product. Bob Stone contacted us with a lengthy explanation of what AmpIt! does to boost the performance of an iDevice. His plea convinced us to update the story and reflect Software Physics side of the story.
