iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Equipped With Two Accelerometers for Power Management, Improved User Experience

[peterdevries]

Ha. How can you really defend having only a gig of ram in 2014.

Your point does not make sense. Just because other smartphone manufacturers (with different OS-es) have more RAM doesn't mean Apple should also increase the RAM.

As has been said before (and tested) the new iPhones are the fastest ever and users experience no lag anywhere. In addition there is no proof that the Safari reloading issue is related to the amount of internal memory. It also has been reported that different Apple devices (iPad and iPhone) with similar internal memory configurations have different behaviours in Safari.

So where is the need for more RAM? What would you like to do with your device that currently is not possible due to a lack of RAM?

If you consider specs as a differentiating feature of a smartphone, than why do you even bother to look at Apple? The specs game is something that is played in the Android space.

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

In 1996 I did a work placement in a semi-con company that was making semi-con accelerometers and they raved about them saying they would be the thing of the future - they have since gone bust - but I guess they were right!

The first company usually does, or gets bought out by bigger ones. I used to work for Genus (they had a limerick contest every year...) which did Tungsten CVD, and Novellus and Applied Materials best them out, mainly for this reason:

Entrenched Thinking.

Somebody, somewhere did a theoretical discussion on processing wafers in a horizontal position would be a particle disaster, so no further thinking was done on that.

AMAT and NVLS beat them senseless, and I got out before it got bad.

That's why I don't despair that Apple isn't first to the table with music players, laptops, watches, smartphones, and TV watching devices. The second one to the party usually learns from the mistakes of the first one, and doesn't repeat them.

A smart man learns from his mistakes.
A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

 

[JCrz]

Your point does not make sense. Just because other smartphone manufacturers (with different OS-es) have more RAM doesn't mean Apple should also increase the RAM.

As has been said before (and tested) the new iPhones are the fastest ever and users experience no lag anywhere. In addition there is no proof that the Safari reloading issue is related to the amount of internal memory. It also has been reported that different Apple devices (iPad and iPhone) with similar internal memory configurations have different behaviours in Safari.

So where is the need for more RAM? What would you like to do with your device that currently is not possible due to a lack of RAM?

If you consider specs as a differentiating feature of a smartphone, than why do you even bother to look at Apple? The specs game is something that is played in the Android space.

Most people demanding more RAM have no idea what RAM is used for or how computers work. They just see Android phones having more RAM so they think they need more RAM to feed their insecurity. They don't understand that Android is bloated due to its need to support a billion different hardware configurations so it needs more RAM just to function normally.

 

[fourthtunz]

Most people demanding more RAM have no idea what RAM is used for or how computers work. They just see Android phones having more RAM so they think they need more RAM to feed their insecurity. They don't understand that Android is bloated due to its need to support a billion different hardware configurations so it needs more RAM just to function normally.

And why do they care what kind of phone someone else is using?
The iPhone is the best selling phone and costs more money, do they think we're all unaware of the android? If the lack of ram made my last 4 iPhones unusable why wouldn't I downgrade to an android? I say downgrade because they're less money, couldn't I afford an android if I can afford an iPhone?
I like the user experience on the iPhone and the wider variety of apps available for the iPhone, I have yet to have a friend with an android show me any good reason for me to switch.

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Im so bored of this story already.

The phone bends, we get it.

Don't exert pressure on it or sit with it in your trousers pockets, which you likely can't if your a dainty person who would cause the bend.

Right! and the thinness of the iPhone means its still very thin with a rigid case, so if you need to sit on your phone buy a rigid case!
how many people are going to buy any phone and not buy a case?

 

[peterdevries]

nevermind....

 

[paul55br]

Engineering Masterpiece.

 

[luciferuk]

NSA listening probe

...or maybe these new sensory awareness components are to utilize any surface said iPhone is placed on; as a listening device.

Place it down one evening on the Steinway Grand and all your conversations are belong to the NSA #jokes

 

[GrabASnookie]

$0.05 more of extra RAM in a phone never hurt anybody, except Apple's bottom line, which is why they don't simply put 8gb of RAM in their phones by now.

I mean why did Apple go to 64bit mobile processing? It certainly is NOT necessary for MOST mobile applications, and there is many that have suggested even the iPhone's 5s A7 CPU is woefully underutilized, so why did Apple have to rush out a phone with an overpowered A8 CPU this time around? Certainly it looks much better on paper to see a CPU version bump and to boast about how many more times powerful the new iPhone 6 is over the previous generations.

So if you are going to suggest to me that Apple is not bumping up the RAM because they don't believe it's technically necessary and that Android phones are just doing so for prestige or necessity, bull-****. Apple started the whole "my specs are better then your specs" game a LONG time ago.


Apple most likely hasn't found a financial reason to spend more money on their phones to add the extra RAM, but you can be sure the moment Apple decides that a phone needs 32gb of RAM, then Tim Cook will be on stage proudly boasting about how the new iPhone X is so much better than all those phones with only a paltry 4gb of RAM.

How do you know if you are exhausting your RAM? I haven't run into the problem yet and I consider myself a heavy user. I trust apple and I've always needed much less RAM on my iMac's than I needed on y PC. I'm not sure why, but my iMac's have always outperformed my business class Lenovo's and Toshiba business class laptops.

 

[DJJAZZYJET]

This is what happens when you don't have manufacturing accountants rule the hardware engineering decisions. I have been around way too many mass market builds where cheaper parts of eliminated parts kept up the margin but also compromised the design and product quality.

This is it. With the iPhone, everything inside it has been engineered to work well. With other manufactures (Samsung), they use lower quality and cheaper components for things that can really make a difference (like the phones DAC, accelerometers etc) for lower cost production.

 

[fourthtunz]

How do you know if you are exhausting your RAM? I haven't run into the problem yet and I consider myself a heavy user. I trust apple and I've always needed much less RAM on my iMac's than I needed on y PC. I'm not sure why, but my iMac's have always outperformed my business class Lenovo's and Toshiba business class laptops.

I've been using my iPhone 6 quite a lot and am amazed at just about everything, it's a great phone. If I find that the ram is a problem, I'll upgrade to something else but right now it's not a problem.
Im getting more than a day and a half out of the battery and using an iPod charger, I found I can bring it back to 100& in about 2 hours, still testing this though. So two of the big complaints are not a problem to me.
I stayed on 8.0 and bought a case for it at the store so the other 2 problems didn't get me either, so all in all a great phone!

 

[JCrz]

And why do they care what kind of phone someone else is using?
The iPhone is the best selling phone and costs more money, do they think we're all unaware of the android? If the lack of ram made my last 4 iPhones unusable why wouldn't I downgrade to an android? I say downgrade because they're less money, couldn't I afford an android if I can afford an iPhone?
I like the user experience on the iPhone and the wider variety of apps available for the iPhone, I have yet to have a friend with an android show me any good reason for me to switch.

You're so full of rage that I couldn't tell if you were agreeing or disagreeing with me.

Take a deep breath and count to 1,000...

 

[fourthtunz]

You're so full of rage that I couldn't tell if you were agreeing or disagreeing with me.

Take a deep breath and count to 1,000...

Rage?
About a phone?
I guess I need to start taking those writing classes again
Nope I agree, don't understand the Ram obsessed but then again
I might be filled with rage if I were a power user and my phone wasn't getting the job done!
Nope happy iPhone 6 user here

 

[JCrz]

Rage?
About a phone?
I guess I need to start taking those writing classes again
Nope I agree, don't understand the Ram obsessed but then again
I might be filled with rage if I were a power user and my phone wasn't getting the job done!
Nope happy iPhone 6 user here

LOL!

True...at the end of the day none of those specs matter if the experience isn't as good.