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iPhone 8 Said to Have 3GB of RAM and 64GB/256GB Storage Options
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It's most likely Apple trying to put the squeeze on customers. They already did this before by offering the iPhone 6 in 16, 64, and 128GB models. Everyone who went for the 64GB model were pushed into the 128 or 256GB models on the iPhone 7 since there was no 64GB model offered and your only other option would be to downgrade to the 32GB option. It would not be surprising if they did this once again to push all of the 128 adopters of the iPhone 7 to the 256. Of course, we are only speculating at this point anyways right?
They put the iPhone 7 at 32, 128 and 256 sizes - and at the same price points that the 6s were at 16, 64 and 128.
No, sooo excited they are on par (again...) and oohh man, we might get rid of bezels in due course..
just incredible what 10Billion (or was it 12?) on R&D can accomplish
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with the prices increasing every year, it's natural that people will hold on to their iphones longer, causing more fragmentation, forced software updates will not be enough to convince people to upgrade.
i am a light user, using a iP5 with iOS9. at times i wish i could take better pictures, but eh, i might as well buy a proper camera with that money.
i am a light user, using a iP5 with iOS9. at times i wish i could take better pictures, but eh, i might as well buy a proper camera with that money.
Well, sorry, the version with the flamethower never made it out of prototype. What exactly do you need to excite you? Another gig of RAM?
I find it hard to believe that Apple will literally deliver on everything the rumor-mill has come up with.
New Sizes
Edge to edge display
no home button
3D camera
OLED
3GB of RAM
new overall design
Just seems like only half of this stuff is possible YoY for innovation's sake. If they do all of this stuff, what will next year's iPhone get?
New Sizes
Edge to edge display
no home button
3D camera
OLED
3GB of RAM
new overall design
Just seems like only half of this stuff is possible YoY for innovation's sake. If they do all of this stuff, what will next year's iPhone get?
Can you image a $1000 phone (according to rumours) with only 64GB of storage? That would be mental, even for Apple
It's not professional if it doesn't have 32gb of ram.
On par? They have double the CPU of the nearest competitor, with half the cores, nearly half the clockspeed, and half the RAM. The iPhone 6S had double the NAND read/write performance of the nearest competitor, whilst the iPhone 7 nearly tripled that. This is an in-house design, in-house CPU, in-house OS... not to mention the best aftersales support.
And if all you consider to be 'innovation' is a device without bezels, well that'll inevitably be in the pipeline, along with removing the home button (the IP7 is the first step towards that).
So what do you honestly think would be more likely to happen in the next few years: Apple releases a phone that gets rid of a few bezels, or the nearest competitor gets anywhere close to hardware performance, running an OS that isn't a resource-hungry dog?
Apple have done all of the hard work. The next step is just a few aesthetic changes, then all the self-gratifying whiners around here will be appeased.
Yea like wth, if this is 3gb of ram I will pass on this. I have the 7 plus as well and it constantly reloads apps and pages with just a few open. What a shame.
1000+ would be for the big version, of the more advanced larger phone. It COULD be over 1000$ the rumor said, not that it would be. God I swear some of the folks on this website are dull as dog droppings sometimes.
Should be $849 for 128 and 949 for 256 but Apple doesn't do things like that. Instead of dropping the low model they can effectively drop the low and middle models. Eliminating the middle is so funny.
Thankfully with streaming and other options in the cloud this strategy can not be continued in perpetuity. 64 is a tad small but when it gets to be 128 standard the fun and games are over on this. 256 is way too much for most people.
Apple have done all of the hard work. The next step is just a few aesthetic changes, then all the self-gratifying whiners around here will be appeased.
No they won't be. Apple doesn't innovate anymore, didn't you hear that from these collective heads of knuckle? They do more with less, and they whine because its less!
This. I've just about given up on trying to make an educated guess of what it will look like/features it will have.
I love all these "ugh, my iPhone 7 plus 256gb I got last week is so outdated already, hurry up Apple!!" comments.
Adult websites? Just try going to some other tech magazine sites or general news sites. Android Central is a chief offender that chokes my iPad quite often. Even with ad blockers, things can bog down somehow. Especially if you're on a site trying to read comments that post via Disqus (or however it's spelled).
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Yep, like when Apple made a phone IP67 rated? The toilet brushes here blubbed that water damage isn't covered under warranty.
Never will you find a more petulant hive.
These days in the tech world you bide your time one year at a time. This is last year's phone that wasn't ready for prime time anyway.
They are taking the sweet spot away. It is actually pretty clever. I could live on 64 GB no problem but would have to be careful. my current iPhone has 128 and isn't nearly full. It is a good strategy and will be met with a great deal of success when Apple sells top end phones or complements the others with iCloud and streaming services.
Tim Cook is actually a genius.
Next year? All iPhones will get oled and not just one.
That's next years uogrsde for other models