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iPhone 14 Pro Rumored to Feature 8GB RAM, Matching Galaxy S22
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iPhone 13s should have had 6GB and the 13 Pros should have had 8GB with the camera changes. I’ll still hold on to my 13 Pro until the next year as the 14 Pro seems by all rumors to be really minor outside of notchless design.
iPhone 13s should have had 6GB and the 13 Pros should have had 8GB with the camera changes. I’ll still hold on to my 13 Pro until the next year as the 14 Pro seems by all rumors to be really minor outside of notchless design.
I wish they would take a year off on their march of obsolescence. Give us a year off...
When I had the XR I’d watch a YouTube video, leave YouTube to respond to a message on Signal and one on iMessage, maybe pop into Safari to scroll a MacRumors thread, then return to YouTube only for it to need to reload the app. It didn’t happen all the time, but extra RAM would have been useful in that relatively normal situation.
I’d prefer further optimization on the part of Apple & developers over ever increasing specs (I’m certain they artificially limit features & claim an older device isn’t powerful enough) but some games, video and audio capabilities definitely benefit from the extra horsepower.
The killer spec in my eyes is battery life.
Side note: the more I see renders with the stupid sideways “i” camera, the less repulsive it looks, & the more i question why Face ID isn’t on a single Mac.
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8 GB iPhone is a harbinger for what’s coming down the pipeline in iOS 16 and beyond.
iPhones may not need 8 GB now with iOS 15 and below, but you can bet your iCloud monthly fee that future versions of iOS will demand it.
iPhones may not need 8 GB now with iOS 15 and below, but you can bet your iCloud monthly fee that future versions of iOS will demand it.
Samsung and Apple on the same level of ram?!
I thought Samsung take your eyes on the raw specs....shame Samsung !
In general when the iphone had 2gb ram, Samsung had 4...iphone 4 - samsung 8 and so on...
Now Samsung is laggin behind? if iphones will have 8, samsung needs to offer 16
I thought Samsung take your eyes on the raw specs....shame Samsung !
In general when the iphone had 2gb ram, Samsung had 4...iphone 4 - samsung 8 and so on...
Now Samsung is laggin behind? if iphones will have 8, samsung needs to offer 16
There are some 3d models of apps that can take advantage of your full amount of ram you can give
And lets not talk about tabs auto-refresh
) i heard some people, or a lot of people have in the background 30-40-50 tabs open....8gb ram for this is definitely a must have
I'd hope so.
I love iPhone with all my life ans I'll stay loyal to it, but I can't deny the competition has gone quite forward these days.
The iPhone 14 has to be MORE than "just" the next iteration of the iPhone.
I love iPhone with all my life ans I'll stay loyal to it, but I can't deny the competition has gone quite forward these days.
The iPhone 14 has to be MORE than "just" the next iteration of the iPhone.
There are some 3d models of apps that can take advantage of your full amount of ram you can give
And lets not talk about tabs auto-refresh
I thought 10 to 12 was excessive. Wow... But on the mac, I often have 20 tabs open, and sometimes more than one window. *shrug*
Whatever they did for the iPhone 13 is vastly better than the PWM used on the 12. I don't know that they need to do anything more, as the number of complaints have significantly dropped.
yep, me too...on the mac its almost impossible not to have 10-20 tabs open...but on a phone...
This explains why Android needs more RAM. It is quite interesting.
People: I never had any need for more RAM in my iPhone.
iPhone: When in the history of me did you have the need for more RAM, watching x-rated movies and taking those stupid *ss selfies?
iPhone: When in the history of me did you have the need for more RAM, watching x-rated movies and taking those stupid *ss selfies?
Samsung and the other Android manufacturers have been chasing Apple for a long time. This has been well known for years.
So you will be disappointed?
I hope Apple is able to avoid the current flash idea: 'Foldable'. Have they will run into a wall on 'innovation'. They did make them larger. 'Evolution' They added better cameras. 'Evolution' Aside from adding more sensors for other fairly nebulous things, what else can they do to radically change the iPhone and not have it be 'just another iPhone update'. They even tried to make them smaller too!
My point is that *ALL* of the updates have been evolutionary and not so much innovation.
Would love to see mobile phones utilize all this power and turn them into dockable PCs
The move to 8GB of RAM might be linked to the supply chain. 8GB modules are now so commonplace that it would make little sense to try and stick to 6GB. It might actually be more expensive to buy 6GB modules than 8GB.
The iPhone 14 Pro will feature 8GB of RAM, the most memory ever offered in an iPhone, according to an unverified but plausible report coming out of Asia.
According to a post from the account "yeux1122" on the Korean blog Naver, the iPhone 14 Pro will contain 8GB of RAM. Citing supply chain sources, the post claims that the iPhone 14 Pro's memory components have now been confirmed, and added that the schedule for mass production appears to be accelerating.
The account previously said that Apple was planning to launch a new iPad mini model with an 8.7-inch display and a chassis that has an increased width and reduced height compared to the fifth-generation iPad mini in the second half of 2021. While the display size claim was inaccurate, with the sixth-generation iPad mini actually featuring an 8.3-inch display, the chassis rumor and launch timeframe proved to be correct.
A report from Haitong International Securities analyst Jeff Pu late last year similarly claimed that the 6.1-inch iPhone 14 Pro and 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Pro Max models will be equipped with 8GB of memory. This would be a significant increase from the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro's 6GB of memory, which currently stands as the most memory ever offered in an iPhone.
The non-Pro iPhone models tend to have less memory, so it seems likely that the 6.1-inch iPhone 14 and 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Max will have less than 8GB. Even with the iPhone 14 Pro taking iPhone memory to the next level, the device still has some way to go before reaching the levels of memory offered in the iPad Pro, which introduced a 16GB memory option in early 2021 based on storage capacity.
The iPhone 13 is already significantly faster than Samsung's latest Galaxy S22 models, but lags behind in terms of memory. Galaxy devices have had 8GB of memory since the launch of the S10 in 2019. 8GB of RAM would therefore bring the iPhone 14 Pro models to parity with the memory offered in the latest rival devices from Samsung.
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I end up w/ lots of tabs open when I start a search of the web from the Home Screen instead of going into an existing tab. Partway through the day I’ll check my tabs & it’s up to 20 or so I close most of them out. If I reuse open tabs this isn’t an issue.
Just thought I’d point out how that might happen for others.
Interesting take and probably a good point. I think Apple (or any manufacturer) would take a small hit in price to have better supply.
Wouldn't kick it outta bed but can't say I'm bothered with the current amount of RAM. I don't have issues with apps reloading or run into other RAM-limited behaviors.
Out of topic but I just hope that they finally use the vapor chamber cooling tech it would really help out with gaming without the screen brightness dimming like crazy
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8GB would be really great to have on an iPhone, I'd really welcome that. Remember back in 2014 we had the iPhone 6 with only 1GB and that was... not good.
Now that's not to say the 12 or 13 Pro models aren't sufficient as is but the general rule of thumb is that the more RAM you have the better off you are.
Now that's not to say the 12 or 13 Pro models aren't sufficient as is but the general rule of thumb is that the more RAM you have the better off you are.
What do you mean? I thought they still don't. It's just other people digging into benchmarks and amount of RAM etc. Unless you are referring to something I missed.
I just checked. On their web site under tech specs, Apple still does not list the amount of RAM on their iPhones or the mhz of their chips in Mac, iPhone, and iPad.