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iPhone 6 Plus 2GB RAM?

Correct me if I am wrong but isnt app/ tab refreshing considered a feature? don't people usually want the latest news from a site instead of having to refresh? Isnt security an issue for this? Like if you loose your phone your banking app "refreshes" to keep it safe?
I understand if an app crashes and you have a report for it but other than that..
1gb has been fine, people like to whine. Would I like 2gb for "future proofing"? Yeah but phones run on a 1 year life cycle
 
UncleSchnitty said:
Correct me if I am wrong but isnt app/ tab refreshing considered a feature? don't people usually want the latest news from a site instead of having to refresh? Isnt security an issue for this? Like if you loose your phone your banking app "refreshes" to keep it safe?
I understand if an app crashes and you have a report for it but other than that..
1gb has been fine, people like to whine. Would I like 2gb for "future proofing"? Yeah but phones run on a 1 year life cycle
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It might be a feature if you close out of Safari and come back to it. But when you go to another tab for a few seconds to look something up, and then the first tab (in which you were typing a post or something) refreshes, it gets rather annoying.
 
terraphantm said:
It might be a feature if you close out of Safari and come back to it. But when you go to another tab for a few seconds to look something up, and then the first tab (in which you were typing a post or something) refreshes, it gets rather annoying.
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annoying yes, should it be a "switch" in setting yes. but do you see where its considered a feature to people who want latest news and stocks? like how weather refreshes, stocks refresh, news refreshes... Check a crash report. when that happens there are rarely ever a crash report it just refreshes to try to give you up to the date info. nothing to do with ram
 
Preliminary A8 testing by Anandtech seems to confirm that 1GB of RAM is available on the iPhone 6. Not sure if it's the same or different with the 6 Plus.
 
I don't get it, if the iPads have 1gb of ram why people expect the iPhone 6 or 6 plus to have 2gb of ram when they have a much smaller screen while the bigger ones handle just find with with the same.
 
l3uddz said:
How is it a fake info? If it was the iPhone 5s benchmark then that would be true, but like YOU said its for the iPhone 6, which means its almost a given to be the same for 6+.

Notice anything?
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Why is it a given? The 6+ has nearly twice the pixels of 6.
 
This again is a bit apologist for Apple. Yes their OS is efficient in RAM usage but it does cause issues when switching between apps. I use what is arguably the best entertainment remote app called Roomie Remote. Sometimes when I switch out and back in it remembers the state correctly at other times it resets and I have to tap on the activity again. This is just speculation but it seems the OS is purging RAM while switching. More RAM doesn't hurt and it doesn't cost much either.
 
Some people are think that the difference between iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus is just the screen, but there is difference between processor, ram screen resolution etc. so that is the main reason that i want to go with iPhone 6 plus.
 
makerleone said:
Some people are think that the difference between iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus is just the screen, but there is difference between processor, ram screen resolution etc. so that is the main reason that i want to go with iPhone 6 plus.
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Correct, the A8 in the Plus will be slighty faster, if it's not then Apple cocked up big time as it will struggle with the load in some areas pushing twice the amount the 6 does.
 
bambooshots said:
Preliminary A8 testing by Anandtech seems to confirm that 1GB of RAM is available on the iPhone 6. Not sure if it's the same or different with the 6 Plus.
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They didn't test anything and are only expressing their opinion regarding the previous rumors.
 
bambooshots said:
Preliminary A8 testing by Anandtech seems to confirm that 1GB of RAM is available on the iPhone 6. Not sure if it's the same or different with the 6 Plus.
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They didn't perform any tests, since they don't have an iPhone 6 in their lab.
Anandtech simply believes in one of the latest leak with geekbench results of an alleged iPhone 6. The leak reported 1GB of RAM, since they considered the leak to be legitimate they argue next iPhone will have that amount of RAM.

4 more days then we'll have the complete specs of both iphones
 
recoil80 said:
They didn't perform any tests, since they don't have an iPhone 6 in their lab.
Anandtech simply believes in one of the latest leak with geekbench results of an alleged iPhone 6. The leak reported 1GB of RAM, since they considered the leak to be legitimate they argue next iPhone will have that amount of RAM.

4 more days then we'll have the complete specs of both iphones
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dont tech companies get them for reviews on tuesday?
 
UncleSchnitty said:
annoying yes, should it be a "switch" in setting yes. but do you see where its considered a feature to people who want latest news and stocks? like how weather refreshes, stocks refresh, news refreshes... Check a crash report. when that happens there are rarely ever a crash report it just refreshes to try to give you up to the date info. nothing to do with ram
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If it's a feature for news outlets, it should be something you can enable or disable for individual sites. And it doesn't have to run out of memory to refresh. It just has to be close. It does the refreshing to avoid crashes

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recoil80 said:
They didn't perform any tests, since they don't have an iPhone 6 in their lab.
Anandtech simply believes in one of the latest leak with geekbench results of an alleged iPhone 6. The leak reported 1GB of RAM, since they considered the leak to be legitimate they argue next iPhone will have that amount of RAM.

4 more days then we'll have the complete specs of both iphones
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Anandtech is going by the picture of the a8 that leaked a while back. The part code strongly suggests it's a 1GB part
 
UncleSchnitty said:
annoying yes, should it be a "switch" in setting yes. but do you see where its considered a feature to people who want latest news and stocks? like how weather refreshes, stocks refresh, news refreshes... Check a crash report. when that happens there are rarely ever a crash report it just refreshes to try to give you up to the date info. nothing to do with ram
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No.

It's not a feature. If it were a feature, it would happen every time you switch from one tab to the other. But it doesn't. Please stop making excuses for Apple.
 
http://www.macworld.co.uk/review/iphone/iphone-6-plus-vs-galaxy-note-4-comparison-review-3572143/

Mac world claims iphone plus has 2gb
 
sunking101 said:
How? You would expect the two year old iPhone 5 to be feeling the heat now...but it has the same amount of RAM as the soon to be released iPhone 6. Plus the processor is still plenty powerful enough for general tasks. Face it, the iPhone 6 specs are bizarrely dated and all you're really getting over the 5/5S is a bigger screen. Either the 6S or i7 is going to blow the i5/5S/i6 out of the water, so why waste such a huge amount of money on a phone which has two year old APPLE specs *now*?

Nobody with a 5S should be updating to an iPhone6. All you're getting is a bigger screen and if that was essential then you wouldn't have bought the 5S.
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I want Apple pay.
 
travis64 said:
nice...is this site reliable?
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MacWorld typically is very reliable, yes. However, whether they're going off of benchmarks of a demo unit they have (possible) or whether they're just parroting someone else's assumption (also possible...) remains to be seen.
 
Don't get your hopes up... do you really think Apple would put 2GB RAM in and not brag about it at the keynote? It's 1GB on both models.
 
Zwhaler said:
Don't get your hopes up... do you really think Apple would put 2GB RAM in and not brag about it at the keynote? It's 1GB on both models.
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Yes, Apple have never cared about shouting about ram. Could go either way but is expect it has 1gb. Pleasantly surprised if 2gb. Only thing I'd go by is Apple may want it to do two apps open on screen at once. 2gb will be needed for future 8.1 update if indeed that feature is real.
 
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