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iPhone 17 Pro: 12GB RAM Rumor Gets Third Confirmation From Analyst

Koni17 said:
I understand why a camera bump exists directly behind the lenses, but as mentioned, I see no reason for the camera bump to be doubled in size, if the camera arrangement of the lenses themselves stay the same. The bump as stated in the past, is to accommodate for the sensor size and lenses - so essentially camera hardware that is directly behind the lenses. To have the bump extend across the whole phone while not changing the arrangement of the lenses, doesn't make much sense to me.
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Again, think about the metaphor: person is a little fat. Go out with fatter friends and look (relatively) skinny.

Remove this plate and the lenses still stick out the same. But now they would appear to simply stick out further from the body. However, make an overall section of that phone thicker on that end and they look less "fat."

Imagine a wedge-shape phone. At the camera end, it could be thick enough to perhaps flush the cameras. At the other end it could be as thin as Apple Marketing wants it. Cameras would still be the same depth but now much of their current "overhang" would be hidden inside the body of that end of the phone.

OR, this is just Apple feeding the crowd hungry to show that they own "latest & greatest" with an aesthetic gimmick. There's always something like that because... apparently, there are a chunk of buyers who really care what strangers think: can't have strangers thinking they do not own he latest model.

OR BOTH.

Many call for making the cameras flush by thickening the overall phone and filling the rest of the added space with battery for greater battery life. But that concept just adds (a little) cost to Apple. So this approach lets them thicken it a bit around the cameras without having to fill empty space with maybe 80¢ of additional battery. Camera overhang is not as pronounced and profit is maximized.
 
HouseLannister said:
And yet Gurman says no devices getting dropped from iOS 19 compatibility, which means a bunch of 3 GB and 4 GB models still supported. Maybe iOS 20 goes to a minimum 6 GB spec?
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They might get supported but will be missing a lot of iOS 19 features if that’s the case
 
Well, they have to because except from the camera set upwhat else differentiates the Pro’s from the no-pro’s?
 
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say what you will about the camera bar, it’s gonna make for the most captivating iFixIt teardown in iPhone history

… in fact, while typing that I had a thought — this could be about creating the necessary space for a periscope zoom camera down the road…?
 
TechWhisperer said:
Well, they have to because except from the camera set upwhat else differentiates the Pro’s from the no-pro’s?
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Plus it also helps the iPhones performance because the chips performance is getting smaller in improvements every year so by increasing the ram will improve it more
 
Too bad Apple won’t report how much RAM will be reserved for its AI.
 
These renders. Jeez. At least colour-match the camera array FFS

As for the RAM increase, 100% guaranteed they’ll disproportionately hike the price accordingly.
 
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I actually really like the silver and black combo - it reminds me of the original iPhone.


I really want to see the protruding camera bump gone though.
 
Just going to point out that the iPhone 16 Pro has LPDDR5X RAM, so if the iPhone 17 Pro just has LPDDR5 then it’s a bit of a downgrade.
 
Personal Opinion: Ugly.
Personal Prediction: $200 price jump across the board so again the 16e model will seem budget friendly.
 
what is worrying is the increase in the volume of the phone will probably lead to an increase in weight...
 
Curious if there is the slightest bit of function behind this 'camera block' running across the back of the new iPhone. Or if it’s just a move designed to make the back of the phone different enough from earlier iPhones, so more consumers buy them. Kinda liking my 14Pro a little more now.
 
Hails09 said:
Did you actually read the post that it was related too?
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It’s obvious if an iPhone doesn’t support Apple intelligence today on iOS 18 it won’t magically support it on iOS 19. Features that weren’t supported on iOS 18, will not magically be supported on iOS 19.

However, most likely there will be feature parity except when it comes to iPhone 17 hardware.
 
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Don't care about rocking - Im more concerned about fingers covering the flash when trying to use the camera in standard landscape orientation.
 
HouseLannister said:
And yet Gurman says no devices getting dropped from iOS 19 compatibility, which means a bunch of 3 GB and 4 GB models still supported. Maybe iOS 20 goes to a minimum 6 GB spec?
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To be fair, the vast majority of what Apple is focused on with iOS is not Apple Ai [despite what they tell you]. The 13 pro Max is still a beast on iOS 18. Even the XR/XS models

I do enjoy that fact that Apple continues to support OS updated on older models.
 
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I7guy said:
It’s obvious if an iPhone doesn’t support Apple intelligence today on iOS 18 it won’t magically support it on iOS 19. Features that weren’t supported on iOS 18, will not magically be supported on iOS 19.

However, most likely there will be feature parity except when it comes to iPhone 17 hardware.
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What are you talking about the post i replied too was about 3gb & 4gb iPhones getting less features on iOS 19 getting less features nothing to do with apple intelligence but the actual core os update.
 
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