I'll be disappointed if the 6S only has 1GB of RAM. Really disappointed.
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Apple Launching iPhone 6s and 6s Plus With 3D Touch, 12MP Camera and A9 Chip on September 25
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I'll be disappointed if the 6S only has 1GB of RAM. Really disappointed.
Easy, you upgrade to 4X the storage for $100 more. You remember it used to be $100 more for 2X the storage right?
And yes I realize this is their way of making more money off us. SO what, its a much better deal.
And yes I realize this is their way of making more money off us. SO what, its a much better deal.
Its true, and its almost painful to watch the release of an 'S' version when you know the next gen is going to be something exciting. Like a teaser.
I'm still contemplating upgrading though.... decisions decisions
Unless its in the defective batch (check your serial number and get it replaced free), it's you're hands that are defective. For everone else, the 6+ has great pictures.
Shouldn't they have realized by now that specs don't always equate to the best performance and it's more about the hardware + engineering + specs + Apple's DNA that makes their phones perform well?
I do not see anything that is super mind blowing here. And I continue to be surprised that they just totally abandoned the smaller form factors and the c line. I will give my wife (current owner of a 5c) my 6 and get the new 6s, but if we both had 6's, we would not be upgrading.
Not me. I'll stick with my iPhone 5s then if it has no 2 gb of ram atleast.
3D Touch - Looks promising but not necessary yet. Similar to touch-id, I will use it when I get it but I won't rush out to get it.
12MP Camera - Meh. More digital zoom I suppose?
4k Video - Sounds cool, but I wonder how it is encoded. Does it support HDR? Either way, not very useful until the phones have 4k screens, or there are more cheaper 4k TVs.
Live photos - A think I will turn off immediately. This is a good way to double or triple the size of each photo for no reason. Sure it's cure with a baby photo sometimes, but 95% of the time it will just be a video of your friends saying "hurry up and take the damn photo!" or "aahh the sun is my eyes." Nope nope nope.
I'll upgrade to this if my iPhone6 breaks.
12MP Camera - Meh. More digital zoom I suppose?
4k Video - Sounds cool, but I wonder how it is encoded. Does it support HDR? Either way, not very useful until the phones have 4k screens, or there are more cheaper 4k TVs.
Live photos - A think I will turn off immediately. This is a good way to double or triple the size of each photo for no reason. Sure it's cure with a baby photo sometimes, but 95% of the time it will just be a video of your friends saying "hurry up and take the damn photo!" or "aahh the sun is my eyes." Nope nope nope.
I'll upgrade to this if my iPhone6 breaks.
While I agree with what you are saying here, I am someone who always buys the 16gb model as I rarely take video with my phone (work as a videographer so have cameras for this) and don't download music or anything that takes up space. So I almost always have 4-6gb left on my phone. So I don't mind this cheaper or base model.
These kinds of posts always amaze me: of course you're keeping the 6 Plus! If after just one year, they came out with a new version of anything that was so much better than the previous version that many people wanted to upgrade there would be screams from the masses. People would claim that they had the ability to produce the better version last year, but designed immediate obsolescence.
The fact is that you can't expect technology to improve so drastically in so short a time frame, especially now that we've come to the end of Moore's law for important parts of the computer.
Of course specs plays a role in performance and yet the quality as whole do play crucial role as well. However, if you have the spec of iPhone 3gs with iOS 9 and using apps requiring high amount of spec...you would need that as well. Good spec is part of having a good experience.
As others have said, they never mention RAM in tech specs. I bet it's 2GB.
So I have never purchased an iPhone at launch.
I assume that the pre-orders go live at 3:00 am EST for us in the US?
Can anyone confirm 2gb of RAM? That's a huge selling point for me because upgrading to a 6S+ from the 6+ isn't a huge upgrade unless the experience will be smoother, less buggy, less laggy, and more dynamic. I was hoping for that killer "S" feature. I guess that's 3D Touch/Force Touch?
My MBP has force touch, but it just adds gestures. When I saw photos of force touch on the MR blog, I saw it as if the screen dims the background and gives new options. Seems like Samsung has that? Or is the concept is different? Is it similar to Hepatic Feedback too?
I assume that the pre-orders go live at 3:00 am EST for us in the US?
Can anyone confirm 2gb of RAM? That's a huge selling point for me because upgrading to a 6S+ from the 6+ isn't a huge upgrade unless the experience will be smoother, less buggy, less laggy, and more dynamic. I was hoping for that killer "S" feature. I guess that's 3D Touch/Force Touch?
My MBP has force touch, but it just adds gestures. When I saw photos of force touch on the MR blog, I saw it as if the screen dims the background and gives new options. Seems like Samsung has that? Or is the concept is different? Is it similar to Hepatic Feedback too?
Really??? You think that some significant percentage of people buying phones give a crap about the amount of RAM they have? I'd be surprised if more than 5% even know what RAM is! Try to remember that you and everyone you know, or have ever talked to for more than a few seconds is still just a tiny fraction of a percentage of the numbers of people buying these things. You cannot rely on your "techie" experience in this.