iPhone 6s Rumored to Include 2GB of Faster RAM and 'Force Touch' Technology

Ieo said:
Everyone is scoffing at the "DSLR - like" camera, but keep the big picture in mind: it may not be true DSLR quality, but to the average consumer there won't be much of an appreciable difference and the choosier consumer will still end up with a better camera. I'm an opportunistic photographer; i rarely take pictures and when i do they aren't planned. I will likely never own a respectable camera in many peoples' eyes, but i do appreciate a quality camera in my phone for those moment when I want to record something.
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To the "average consumer" there's no difference between a DSLR photo and a kick in the face.
 
heeloliver said:
I'm really interested to know if "Force Touch" is really a innovative technology, or just a long touch.
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First, it has to be put into the operating system to be of any use - if I write an app, the app must be able to distinguish between a "normal" touch and a "force" touch and do different things.

Second, Apple could then use new hardware so that on an iPhone 7 you "force" touch by pressing harder, and when the hardware isn't there, it could be a long touch.

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Traverse said:
"DSLR" quality camera? I doubt it.
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Maybe someone can take their time and find information about sales of the Galaxy S4 Zoom. To tell us whether there is a feasible market for an iPhone with a high quality camera built in (which obviously will not fit flat in your pocket like a current iPhone; there's a price to be paid). So that we have an idea if Apple could sell 100 thousand, or a million, or ten million such phones. (Checked it a bit, and that device seems to be a less good phone than other Samsung phones, and a less good camera than good cameras, so not particularly useful. I'd expect iPhone 6 + at least low end DSLR photo quality).
 
The difference in RAM would be a vast improvement, despite disappointed iPhone 6 owners' protestations about their device having 'enough'.

iPad Air 1 (1GB RAM) vs Air 2 (2GB RAM) app reloading and Safari tab reloading really is a gigantic difference even with normal everyday usage.

Increased RAM makes the whole device feel much snappier, and simply allows you to do more with your device. Say you're copying out some text and have to switch between different emails in Mail and then tabs in Safari. You'd have to start again after every switch as the Mail app and Safari app would have both had to have been refreshed.

That's the only reason why I cancelled my iPhone 6 pre-order. What's the point owning a device incapable of switching between two applications without the need to constantly get rid of whatever it is that you're doing. My Nexus 5 work phone from late 2013 does that at 1/3rd of the cost of the iPhone.
 
Now that Android has 64 bit processors coming on by and starting to pair them with 4 GB of RAM, how does Apple distinguish between their processors and Snapdragons? Qualcomm is on par right now. The only thing Apple has an advantage in are single core benchmarks.
 
iPhone 6S and "S" stands for "Shut up and give us your money"
and "iPhone 6S" sounds like sexass,success,? :D
 
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FieldingMellish said:
The camera hype Apple is putting forth is fluff for lack of differentiation in the S model. It's beyond Apple to say that the camera will be slightly better in the S model.
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If nothing else, they just say that their image processing algorithm has sped up and the dynamic range is better, because of the better RAM/CPU but not much to the lens itself. :)


dannyyankou said:
Don't forget sapphire screens ;)
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I'm really bummed about that one; I was very excited for the sapphire screens. I hope they find some way to resurrect GT Advanced so that the iPhone screens are like the ones we saw leaked in summer '14.

Gym Hellwig said:
Huh?

The iPhone 7 will be much better than the 6s.
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OldSchoolMacGuy said:
That's such stupid logic. Don't buy the 6S because the 7S will be out later but don't buy that because the 8S will follow after it so wait and get that instead..... but wait, just wait for the 9S instead....... :rolleyes:

I hear the 2050 Ford will be better than this current 2015 model so you should wait and get it instead.
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True, but as a fellow adopter of the #S cycles, I agree with their point; while (most) new technologies (and more lust-enducing) are debuted on the # cycles, #S usually refines any hiccups that come with the new technologies (like Antennagate, for instance). It's a reassuring feeling.

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I'm truly interested in what Force Touch would even be used for on the iPhone. Assistive Touch? Multitasking?

I'm guessing they made Force Touch because they didn't have enough finger real estate on the :apple:Watch to include buttons for more functions, so they added a more snazzy version of a "long press" to bring up extra options.

But I can't quite see the need on iPhones. I suppose video games would be a good context to add another layer of interaction...
 
Lexdexia said:
If this is true, "Force Touch" could open a whole new dimension of how people interact with the software. Like quicker access to context actions or even new ways to play games.

And faster memory is nice too.
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exactly, force touch is only innovation i found interesting during apple watch keynote and i hoped it will come to ios, so if true, great.. curious what devs could do with it;)
 
It's amazing how many people make big deal about the ram. Some probably have never even noticed any issue with a lack of ram but hey.... News about more ram, urrah, about time :D:D

DSLR quality camera on the paper thin iPhone? Ok, lol
 
0000111 said:
I'm really bummed about that one; I was very excited for the sapphire screens. I hope they find some way to resurrect GT Advanced so that the iPhone screens are like the ones we saw leaked in summer '14.
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I was totally expecting Apple to swoop in and purchase GT Advanced when they declared receivership to secure exclusivity of their own sapphire production and control.

The fact that once the original deal was voided, and GTa went bye bye Apple didn't make any moves on that front indicates to me that the large scale sapphire display wont come now for a long time and that Apple has given up beliving Sapphire is the answer they were looking for.
 
2GB of ram was rumors a couple generations ago and yearly after that. It will eventually have 2GB of ram....i'll just take this rumor with a grain of salt for now.
 
sundog925 said:
Having only 1GB ram is laughable at this point.

Apple has it's hands in so many pies at this point, the phone doesn't work as advertised, i.e. broken airplay, it gets hot as s#h!t when too many apps are going, the constant glitches in software.

Only good things can come from this.
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Either you're trolling or you've never used the 6 or 6+. Airplay consistently works for me, maybe your problem with "glitches" is having too many apps open, as for the battery no problems here.
 
Called it!

I wrote about this as soon as the Apple watch was revealed:

So... the one thing that I'm most dissapointed by on the new iPhone are the large bezels at the top and bottom. Whilst it makes sense that they should be symmetrical from a purely aesthetic and adherence to design language point of view, they are so large simply because of the home button. It's a functional metaphor Apple are now using across a big range of devices - but it now seems they've reached a point where the physical design of devices (iPhones in particular) might be hindered by it.

But... After watching the videos for the AppleWatch it seems they might already have the answer. The face of the watch features not just a touch sensor but force sensors too. It can detect a 'deep' press as opposed to a simple tap or swipe.

With that in mind, could future iPhones simply do away with the physical home button, and turn the entire bottom bezel into a touch sensor with TouchID combined? It would mean having a larger TouchID sensor that spanned the bottom edge - integrated with those same force sensor layers from the watch.

It would mean the entire bottom bezel becomes a hit area for TouchID with a much larger reading surface - which should, in turn, make for more accurate readings.

Having a hit area for going 'home' could be accomplished by printing the small sqaure that used to exist on iPhone models back into the centre of the bezel. So, even though a deep press might take you home from anywhere along the bezel, there is some familiarity with the older physical buttons. The learning curve is shallow.

It could also open up the possiblity of lots of other gestures:

• Deep press in centre printed square - go home
• Long tap and hold anywhere across bottom - touchid - wake / unlock / apple pay
• Double tap anwhere - Siri
• Swipe left then right without lifting finger - launch fave app/function 1
• Swipe right then left without lifting finger - launch fave app/function 2
• etc etc

So it lets the top and bottom bezels get smaller whilst keeping symmetry, whilst adding more functionality to the device. Win Win.

The physical boundary between hardware and software is blurred even further.
 
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