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Let's speculate iPhone 7 has 3GB RAM or just 2GB

For what it's doing and even under stress, .. it seems that 2GB is more than plenty at the moment. I don't see why the 7 would have to jump to 3. It won't bother me if they do 2gb on the 7 and 3gb on the 7s for iOS11.
 
bufffilm said:
If this indeed is the case, the 6 and iPhones before it, will run like hell on ios10.
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Seriously. The worst thing about my 6 plus is switching apps and having my place lost due to lack of RAM. if there is one feature I would want in a new phone, it would be that I'd be able to switch apps all the time without having to worry that I'm going to loose what I'm doing.
 
gadget8888 said:
Dual camera will have 3GB RAM, Pro/Plus model should have 2208 × 1242 and 7S will probably have 1080p IPS LCD
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Yep, really hope the plus finally gets a physical display resolution that matches what it renders everything at. That will help with performance a lot I think. Yes, it's pushing a greater amount of pixels but it doesn't have to downsample anything. I imagine that would take far more resources than simply pushing a bit more pixels. Look at the iPad for example. No downsampling, but has many more pixels at 2048x1536. It (iPad Air 2 and later) flies perfectly fine, handing all the blurs quite well. The iPhone 6S is already even more powerful than the iPad Air 2, so it definitely will handle, and even benefit from more pixels but no downsampling process.

Also the only reason we haven't seen a 2208x1242 display already is because I don't think apple had enough time to get such a weird resolution panel manufactured with the iPhone 6 Plus. Apple had a hard enough time getting the 1080p panels produced in time compared to the 750p ones! Imagine them having to wait for 1242p panels 😛 but anyway, since the 6 Plus was using the 1080p panels, why not ride out decreasing manufacturing costs for the 6S Plus, which isn't supposed to get many hardware redesigns/upgrades anyway. Then once manufacturing costs come down even more, prepare ahead of time and finally get 2208x1242 displays cooking.

It will be an IPS LCD again for sure there have been no reports of Apple ramping up orders for OLED panels this year, so OLED won't be till the year after at least. And that is why I will wait another year with my iPhone 6. And if I break it in the meantime, I have an iPhone 5 i would use. I'm that desperate to skip the 7 for the OLED panel. I LOVE the display on my brother's Galaxy S6 Edge, simply because the blacks are actually black... that makes everything look so much ridiculously better.

I say the 7 Plus gets 3GB, there will be no 7 Pro. Regular 7 could get either 2GB or 3GB, but I'm not totally sure. It might be better for them to streamline the manufacturing process and use all the same A10s with the same RAM and such but we'll see. 2GB would still be fine honestly.
 
Mmm. I was thinking that this 3GB RAM could happen in 2017. But who needs it?? This is iOS after all and not Android. 2GB of RAM is already blazing fast on iOS.
 
ApfelKuchen said:
You're also confusing video playback standards with screen resolution. 1440p isn't even a viable standard - show me any significant content distributed in that standard. The only step-up that would please anyone is a move from 1080p to 4K - 4096x2160. No hint of that happening. Besides, video playback isn't heavily dependent on CPU RAM - you should be screaming for more video RAM.
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I agree with most of your points. However, 1440p is used extensively on YouTube videos, and a bump in screen resolution to 1440p is noticeable in terms of quality. Even though I can't see the pixels on 1080p at normal viewing distance, I can definitely tell that a 1440p display looks sharper than a 1080p one.
 
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2 GB. This is a company that ships 5200 RPM hard drives, 1 USB-C port devices, and GPUs from years ago and markets the whole thing as "Only Apple could do this".
 
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Are people still arguing whether more RAM is better or needed? If A10 isn't significantly faster than A9, with more RAM, then what's the reason to upgrade really?
Same form factor, same speed, same RAM, same display, no 3.5 mm jack, better camera, dual speakers, $100 more...
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The 2 configurations Apple has is 2GB and 4GB. It's unlikely they'll introduce a 3GB in between.

considering the 9.7" iPad Pro just released with 2GB, there's not much chance that iPhone 7 will be any different. Add to that the fact that the 6S was the first iPhone to get 2GB.

The 2017 iPhone Anniversary may be different, but again, it would more likely go to 4GB to match the 12.7" iPad Pro. My guess is iPhone's will stick with 2GB for a few more years.
 
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