If we're all being honest here, we know that RAM and battery are the two major weaknesses of the iPhone. RAM can be easily added, but battery technology is difficult with only marginal improvements unless you increase the battery size.
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'iPhone 6s' Could Have 2GB of RAM and Pre-Installed Apple SIM
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If we're all being honest here, we know that RAM and battery are the two major weaknesses of the iPhone. RAM can be easily added, but battery technology is difficult with only marginal improvements unless you increase the battery size.
Multitasking is for girls, real men work on each task one at a time. What is it that keeps you furiously switching between Maps and Safari? If you keep forgetting the name of the address, maybe you need better memory not the telephone.
I did not prove your point, I made my point. But you can look at it on any way you like.
The real issue is that, while Apple certainly optimizes what they can, many of the libraries and frameworks they use are primarily designed for laptops and desktop computers which have far more resources than a phone. There's always going to be an imbalance in that area.
The conundrum is that every time you kick an app out of RAM, you have to reload it, expending energy on communicating with the network to reload data. It is not an optimization without benefits.
1GB of RAM was fine with iOS 6 on the iPhone 5, but when you've got apps running in the background (even briefly means they still kick out other apps), RAM used by Today extensions, and soon WatchKit extensions, and Safari gobbling up oodles to run modern websites, it's just not enough anymore.
I will gladly accept those 2gb. However my 6 is perfectly capable and buttery smooth with just the 1 (at least for my use). I am most likely planning on upgrading to the 6S and giving my dad my 6 in the fall (I used his upgrade to get my 6). However we will see. I'm pretty darn happy with my iPhone 6 and could see myself having it for 2 years. But we all know once the 6S is released I'll be like "I want".. funny I used to always be strict about upgrading every 2 years.
I love that Apple is able to produce a device with such modest specs such as a 1.4ghz dual core cpu and 1gb RAM and it still blows the doors off things that are technically 2x as powerful on paper.
I love that Apple is able to produce a device with such modest specs such as a 1.4ghz dual core cpu and 1gb RAM and it still blows the doors off things that are technically 2x as powerful on paper.
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apple sims dont mean anything when the carriers just lock the devices.
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get a 5s.
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Still no word of newer 4 inch iPhone
get a 5s.
Irrelevant. How does a different device with no doubt a different OS mean that the iPhone has enough RAM? What on earth do you mean by has performed far better?
My bus with twice as much engine doesnt get to 60mph as quick as a car with half the engine.
It needs more RAM period. Who cares what other devices have or how well they do or dont work.
As long as the Apple SIM (hopefully not customized by Gemalto) can be removed and replaced by a standard carrier only SIM, I have no problem with this.
How do you figure? Nobody says you have to use that SIM... you just take it out and put in yours... it is a real, tangible, physical SIM card that is reprogrammable... the game continues.
Multitasking is for girls, real men work on each task one at a time. What is it that keeps you furiously switching between Maps and Safari? If you keep forgetting the name of the address, maybe you need better memory not the telephone.
I'll be watching a movie in safari then check an urgent message.. I come back, and the tab reloads
Its the same with games. I'm left with only a few moves from a perfect round, I come back after checking something else, the game reloads and I start all over
There are so many instances of such cases. And it happens more often than you notice as most iOS users just accept it as the norm and don't even realize how potentially inconvenient it is.
Times change. Perhaps Apple is preparing the iPhone 6S to be able to run iOS 10 or 11 comfortably. While 1GB is enough for now (or was enough in the past when those discussions you reference occurred), future version of the OS may need more.
Is 10 MB enough RAM for a desktop computer? In 1994, I thought it was more than enough to run AmigaOS. That in no way means I think 10MB is enough to run OS X 10.10.3.
Still no word of newer 4 inch iPhone
I'm waiting for that and a new 17 inch Macbook Pro and a new 24 inch iMac and a new 3.5 inch iPhone....
Apple has a tendency to cast aside what they did before (even if it was successful and well liked) and not look back....I'd consider a new 4 inch iPhone a long shot at best now (iPhone 7 when new design is created would be the likely place...but still seems a long shot based on their past actions both in the Mac and iPhone world...) - saying this as someone who would likely get that 4 inch iPhone 6/7 if they made it, but with a long view of Apple's history.
I'll be watching a movie in safari then check an urgent message.. I come back, and the tab reloads
Its the same with games. I'm left with only a few moves from a perfect round, I come back after checking something else, the game reloads and I start all over
There are so many instances of such cases. And it happens more often than you notice as most iOS users just accept it as the norm and don't even realize how potentially inconvenient it is.
Extremely good points...the nightmare would be if Apple doubles the RAM to 2GB and the reloading issue isn't affected much.
Do you understand the definition of perform better? I guess you do, but if you don't, Google it. That's precisely what I meant.
1GB wasn't enough on the iPad Air running iOS 7 when it was released. Apple takes its sweet time to add more RAM. The original iPad had 256MB and it was slow.
So in the UK if you are happy with your existing plan, and you buy an iPhone sim free, can you transfer your account over, or do my you need to get a new SIM as the.Pole one won't work?
If there is a 4 incher, it will likely be a 6c type of phone (Iphone 6 innards in a smaller phone, cheaper phone).
More standard storage is on the top of my wish list. I'm hoping that we will finally see 32gb as the entry level with this next upgrade. My first iPhone I bought refurb and was able to get the 32gb upgrade essentially free. My next upgrade was not a refurb and thus I opted for the 16gb standard. While it hasn't been too much of a bother with the way flash prices have come down and the increasing size demands of iOS itself Apple could easily make 32gb the entry level device.