I’d really rather have an iPhone 16 minus. Smaller – ‘mini,’ if you will, and less camera nonsense.
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Early iOS 18 Code Reveals Four New iPhone Models With A18 Chip
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Very cool findings! Consecutive DRAM increase on iPhone has occurred before. In 2014, iPhone 6 shipped with 1GB. The following year iPhone 6s doubled it with 2GB. One year after, iPhone 7 Plus had 3GB.
Nah, you can’t actually compare the plus models with dual camera with the regular ones, and for that matter, the regular iPhone 7 and 8 remained at the same 2GB of RAM.
Do you (all) think this memory bump to 10GB will only happen with the Pro models? I know it’s the most likely move from Apple, but if both phones carry the same SoC for economy of scale, the sensible move would be to include the same RAM.
I may be in the minority but, I care more about what the OS will bring.
This leak is the first big letdown, with no ULTRA mentioned in the source code. Next years iphones may be another s year.
The iphone is long due for a design overhaul. Having waited for long I may as well hold onto my current iphone, until the iphone 17 pro max with the rumoured circular cutout like andriod phones is released.
The iphone is long due for a design overhaul. Having waited for long I may as well hold onto my current iphone, until the iphone 17 pro max with the rumoured circular cutout like andriod phones is released.
I’m surprised, and disappointed that they are keeping the poorly selling Plus around another year instead of bringing back a nice mini for those who are now looking at a three- or four-generation gap since they got their mini.
IMO iPhones work very well for a billion users and are not "long due for a design overhaul."
Maybe they couldn’t produce enough to support four different models at the same time? The pandemic and supply issues may have also had an impact? The N3E process (A18) could just be a “return to normal” for Apple and TSMC. The next Apple TV 4K and 7th generation iPad mini will probably get the A18 as well.
Does it mean 10GB of RAM for the 16 pros and 8GB for the base models? If true this is great news for normal users.
or maybe the 10GB is for the rumored Ultra?
I am guessing it's a combination of the plus iPhone still selling better than the mini iPhone, as well as the former having a higher profit margin (Apple is able to charge a higher price by virtue of it having a larger display).
I will not buy the next iPhone unless there will be an AI iPhone. I'm bored of seeing always the same iterations.... it's time to change
They only did that for two generations of phones, 14 and 15 lines. They should get back to using the same generation chips for the entire lineup like they have been for years.
Well look at it this way, we've had the so called pro analysts get some things VERY wrong this year, and last year too, and let's not forget that Apple Watch Series 7 total redesign they all promised. So Apple must be keeping some things under wraps? Not many though. I await to see how much they say will be true of the next Apple Watch.
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Apple chips are already so advanced for what they do, that I doubt this will have any noticeable benefit for an average user.
As Apple appear to have a creative pause with their iPhone hardware design since iPhone 12 (and no, removing SIM trays and adding extra buttons on the side do not count 😉), I would much rather prefer they surprise us with something big and fresh with iOS 18.
As Apple appear to have a creative pause with their iPhone hardware design since iPhone 12 (and no, removing SIM trays and adding extra buttons on the side do not count 😉), I would much rather prefer they surprise us with something big and fresh with iOS 18.
I also think that iOS 18 will be a bigger release (like iOS 5 and 8 were) to accompany the iPhone 16. In 2022-2023 Apple definitely prioritised development of visionOS and Vision Pro.
That sounds right.
Given that most smartphone brands are wary of producing smaller phones, it seems that people who demand a mini are a vocal minority.
(There are social factors to this. For example, I imagine minis are only interesting to men, because women wouldn't have sufficient pants/dress pockets regardless. They use a purse either way. So that advantage of the mini already goes away for ~half the population.
Then there's the app UI factor, which is a chicken and egg problem: if few people buy minis and few smartphone brands offer minis, few app developers bother targeting a mini's screen estate.)