Anyone skipping iPhone 6 due to 1GB RAM?

[Givmeabrek]

dipstick,
Sounds like Android may be in your future. Apple devices are made for users that want a stable, functional device. Not really for tinkerers and experimenters like yourself. That's after you get a new keyboard to fix the Shift and Apostrophe problem....

 

[TacticalDesire]

The phone itself will run fine (dialer, texting, email etc.) even most general apps like twitter, instagram etc. But once you start web browsing or using an application heaver than a social networking service and apps and tabs will refresh because they can't stay in memory. Or worst case, they crash. Something EASILY and cheaply fixed with 2gb of RAM.

And to the people that say 1gb is fine. Great, maybe for you. But you are not everyone. And I'm tired of explaining to my mother why she keeps losing everything she is doing when she switches tabs. Something her 4 year old, $300 black Friday special laptop never did.

 

[Mindbender14]

I don't know if I'm skipping yet. This may be my first iphone BUT I'm waiting until after 9/9 to see what the reality of this phone is...

 

[juanrp]

Why would I skip because of RAM? That's like the dumbest reason ever. I don't even notice and difference in RAM when I use my 3 apple devices, which have different amounts of RAM.

It's like saying that you are skipping a phone due to the gold not being gold enough, or the silver being too silver.
Those are things that you barely notice.

 

[Dreday24]

Yes

 

[nfl46]

Lol. No, I'm not skipping it over that. It's not that big of a deal to me.

 

[thetechfixer]

No, I am still going to purchase it

 

[mwhals]

Anyone skipping iPhone 6 due to 1GB RAM?

I am skipping the iPhone 6, because I don't want a bigger screen than my iPhone 5s. The RAM is not an issue for me. My iPhone 5s is the size I want for a cell phone. Didn't we already evolve from bigger cell phones??? Now we are going back to them.

 

[NZfly]

2 gb would be nice but the main reason I may skip is just there's not much reason to upgrade form my 5s it works well has a good camera and I think we've evolved to a point where the iPhone is fast enough. Saying that though if I do skip the 6 I'll definitely be getting the 6S

 

[eoblaed]

hey all. first time poster, long time lurker. excuse my lack of shift key and apostrophes... and spelling. please let me know if talking about jailbreaking is against "things not to do" #8.

i really want the phone, but after dealing with a jailbroken iphone4 since release, i cant just blindly get this phone if it only has 1 gig of ram. Im honestly not a fanboy one way or the other. I dont mind learning new devices/operating environments. unless apple lets me change my default app for maps, and edit my own gestures, i am going to jailbreak, and if i jailbreak, 1 gig of ram is not enough. that is how i sum up my position.

First of all, if a person changes a phone away from the software (or hardware) as it was designed to run with, and it performs sub-optimally, that's the fault of the person making the changes, not the phone.

But more importantly, I'm confused by your position. You say you won't get a 6 if it only has 1GB of RAM because that's not enough to jailbreak, but you're happy with a jailbroken 4 that has half that much RAM? A phone that has twice as much RAM as a phone you're already used to using in a jailbroken configuration won't be able to run jailbroken to your satisfaction? As I said, I'm confused.

 

[lordofthereef]

I will buy it, use safari extensively and see how "bad" it is, and sell it if it's worse than the current phone; I will most definitely make money on the deal lol. Safari now is subpar for my use. But I do more surfing on my phone than any other platform

 

[makerleone]

No way, I have iPhone 5s and Samsung Galaxy Note 3 both, iPhone have only 1GB ram and Note have 3GB ram but when i really need Note 3 the ram displays almost full every time even clearing the ram and close unused application. but the ram of iPhone 5s is never full and my device is never hanged. so in short i not a full and i dont want to ignore iPhone 6 due to 1GB ram, because 1GB is really enough for me.

 

[cababah]

Here's to hoping that the 5.5" version comes with 2GB...

 

[Preed08]

Yeah. I dont approve of paying that price for hardware that does not match. The OS will be nice, but 3rd party apps will have no room to grow.

 

[recoil80]

RAM could be one of the reasons why I may wait iPhone 6S, but not the only reason.
I'd really like to have more real estate on the display, so I'm looking forward to buying next iPhone just to get it.
However, if it'll have only 1GB of RAM, no significant camera improvement and no improvements in battery life I may skip this update.
iOS 8 will run fine on my iPhone 5, so I will upgrade my phone at full price ( 700 euro so about 900$) only if it will be absolutely worthwhile.

 

[bhags8]

If it only has 1gb of RAM I will buy another android phone. If it has 2 I will buy it.
Not trying to start a war or anything, just telling the truth.

 

[dipstik]

First of all, if a person changes a phone away from the software (or hardware) as it was designed to run with, and it performs sub-optimally, that's the fault of the person making the changes, not the phone.

But more importantly, I'm confused by your position. You say you won't get a 6 if it only has 1GB of RAM because that's not enough to jailbreak, but you're happy with a jailbroken 4 that has half that much RAM? A phone that has twice as much RAM as a phone you're already used to using in a jailbroken configuration won't be able to run jailbroken to your satisfaction? As I said, I'm confused.

to your first point, the phone may not be capable of running as i wish it to run, if it only has 1 gig of ram. that is the fault of the designers. if the devs for ios8 apps are able to make google maps the default, and able to reply to sms from the lockscreen etc., then i can live with 1 gig of ram. if i need to redesign the user interface to get the functionality i have on my iphone4, i will need to jailbreak; and i dont trust 1 gig of ram to be enough to support the device as i will use it under such circumstances.

to your second point, i run an older ios. after listening to the horror stories of ios7 on jailbroken iphone4s. If i ran ios7 i would not be comfortable jailbreaking, and since i do not feel comfortable not jailbreaking, given the limits of the ios, i am using 5.1.1. If the iphone4 had a better processor and ram, i would be comfortable running ios7 on the device.

have you tried installing windows 8 on a 286 machine with 8 meg of ram? its like that.

 

[cubbie5150]

Not happy w/ only 1GB for the 6, but I'll be buying anyway. I've had my 5 for almost 2 years, and I've used an iPhone sine the original; nothing else on the market really appeals to me.

 

[cynics]

Not happy w/ only 1GB for the 6, but I'll be buying anyway. I've had my 5 for almost 2 years, and I've used an iPhone sine the original; nothing else on the market really appeals to me.

This is the way I feel. I wish I could be more excited about the next iPhone, however it just disappoints me the least of all the offerings available.

Unless you have a lot of stock in APPL I have yet to hear a good reason why anyone would NOT want more RAM.

 

[Milese3]

First off, we don't know officially the amount of RAM the iPhone 6 will have- you'll have to wait until September 9th for that. Also, does it really matter? Whilst Android devices benefit greatly from a larger quantity of RAM, the iPhone can still perform at the same level with significantly less RAM. RAM isn't an issue on the iPhone 5S, so why upgrade it. Software enhancements in iOS allow for performance like flagship Android phones with much higher specs.

 

[eoblaed]

to your first point, the phone may not be capable of running as i wish it to run, if it only has 1 gig of ram. that is the fault of the designers. if the devs for ios8 apps are able to make google maps the default, and able to reply to sms from the lockscreen etc., then i can live with 1 gig of ram. if i need to redesign the user interface to get the functionality i have on my iphone4, i will need to jailbreak; and i dont trust 1 gig of ram to be enough to support the device as i will use it under such circumstances.

You need more than a gig of RAM to swap out a default app? Or to respond to SMS from the lock screen? I don't buy it. Otherwise, there's a very real problem with the jailbreaking process and how much RAM it consumes. That's abysmal.

to your second point, i run an older ios. after listening to the horror stories of ios7 on jailbroken iphone4s. If i ran ios7 i would not be comfortable jailbreaking, and since i do not feel comfortable not jailbreaking, given the limits of the ios, i am using 5.1.1. If the iphone4 had a better processor and ram, i would be comfortable running ios7 on the device.

have you tried installing windows 8 on a 286 machine with 8 meg of ram? its like that.

Yes. If you were going to try to run iOS 7 on an iPhone4, it would be like running windows 8 on outdated hardware. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about running a modern OS on modern hardware. You seem to think an iPhone 6 is going to be running so close to the edge, performance-wise, that any little bump is going to cause it to grind to a halt. Take a look at the benchmarks for the 5S -- you'll see that's not even remotely close to reality for their current flagship phone, which has 'only' 1 GB of RAM.

I think you'll find that the iPhone 6, regardless of how much RAM it ends up having, will be a performance beast and will be able to handle swapping out a default app or SMS texting, or whatever other pet-tweaks you like.

 

[chupachup]

It will run iOS 8 fine. By the time iOS 10 comes around it will run like iOS 7 on an iPhone 4. Forcing people to upgrade.

Funny. another poster here told me his iPhone 4 runs "better than ever" with ios 7.

 

[Michael Scrip]

You obviously haven't used Safari on an iPad Air with iOS 7. Try to compose a long MacRumors post, switch tabs and then come back and see if your post is still there. 1GB RAM isn't enough for all use cases.

Do we know for a fact that other tablets with 2GB-3GB of RAM don't have this problem?

I'm just curious...

 

[chupachup]

I'm skipping it because my phone now is everything the iPhone 6 will be, plus I have 2GB of ram already.

plus my ambient light sensor actually works, unlike the iPhone where it goes bright and then you have to turn off the screen and back on to make it go down again.

Unbelievable.

Also my battery is twice as big as the iPhone 6.

What can Apple do to make me go back to an iPhone. That should be the question.

 

[mtneer]

I don't think "Android is no better" is a good enough excuse. Apple has never set Android (or anyone else) as its benchmark. Apple did not create the iPad to be just as good or good enough compared to someone else. I hope Apple has its visions set above that.