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Video Shows Benefits of 2GB RAM in iPhone 6s

This is completely unfair, the phone on the left has do not disturb mode on, so all of the "disturbances" are stuck in the RAM instead of being released by the speaker therefore this is rigged in Apple's favor because the tech community is biased.

^ what Android forums look like
 
Blocking Ads in iOS 9 already has an impact on this issue. Since the ads also consume memory, safari on an iPhone 6 can keep more tabs in memory if they don't have ads on them.
 
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betabeta said:
Yeah, I almost hate to give up my old 6 plus, the screen was amazing every angle. My new S is dingy yellow and looking at an angle from the bottom turns even more yellow. Seems like the early ones always have this issue, might return and wait until November.
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Just did a side by side comparison on my 6Plus and 6S... dang, super noticeable difference. I mean, the 6S doesn't neccassarily look bad, but very noticeable. The 6S is definitely warmer.
 
Coming from an iPhone 4S the difference is huge, but that was to be expected :) Love the 6S, albeit a bit to large for my taste. And still not happy with the design (camera + white lines). But it's fast! Everything feels instantaneous.

I waited to upgrade to the 6S for the 2GB Ram. Definitely worth it.
 
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This is a great video, I've been waiting to see something like this in the new 6s model. The 2 GB of ram makes a huge difference in the user experience. I can understand why Apple did not mention it because to be honest they don't need to, people are still going to buy the phone no matter what. I think when you add in all the extra features plus the extra ram, it's makes an impressive iPhone and the 6s, 6s+ will last many good years with this extra ram.

For the iPhone 7, Apple needs to work on battery now and color match the antenna bands to the color model so they blend in better to the metal color instead of sticking out and make the Space Grey darker it's getting so light they should call it light space grey.
 
the8thark said:
Oh please, stop pulling numbers out of your ass.
My 5 can even keep 3 tabs open without refreshing.
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The iPhone 5 has a 32-bit processor that allowed for more available ram (inherent to architecture) than the 5s or 6. For that reason it was less likely to reload tabs under certain conditions. Obviously there were other benefits to 64-bit, but that's beside the point for this question.
 
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JXShine said:
Oh please, stop pulling numbers out of your ass.
My 6Plus couldn't even keep 3 tabs open without refreshing.
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this +100000000

the 6+ couldnt handle 2 tabs sometimes. :(

imo, 6 was the worst iphone by far. loved the 3gs, 4s, 5, 5s, and now 6s.
 
MrGuder said:
For the iPhone 7, Apple needs to work on battery now and color match the antenna bands to the color model so they blend in better to the metal color instead of sticking out and make the Space Grey darker it's getting so light they should call it light space grey.
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...and engineer the camera lens so it doesn't stick out from the back of the phone... even if that means making the phone half a millimetre thicker..
 
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TommyA6 said:
And the proof of A9 or radio chipset being "much" more efficient?
The same battery life could be the result of less reloading.
iPhone 6(plus) could have easily handled 2 gb of RAM. They had a bigger battery than 6s(plus) and they also have an ultra efficient A8.
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http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/technology/ - discusses improved efficiency in the A9. Also MacRumors articles have discussed it. Just simply Google about RAM and battery consumption.
 
1paine1 said:
Great. So now I can finally have 50 websites open (who doesn't need that!) at the same time, meanwhile I am still envying my friends with wireless charging.
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Really, that's what you envy? How much are each of those wireless charging docks that give you that wonderful feature? Because I'm sure you can't wirelessly charge without them. So, in a sense, you are still not wirelessly charging. You are just plugging in differently.

Wake me when you can set your phone next to a power outlet, and it will charge (without a special dock). That would be true wireless charging. :D
 
I've found iOS 9 on my iPhone 6, even without ad blocking, is a pretty big improvement over iOS 8 in terms of holding pages in memory. But the 2GB is definitely welcome.
 
so apple left them selves a nice upgrade path with intetionaly crippling the iPhone 6 with 1 gig of ram. This is no surprise and is the only truly frustrating thing about apple. I am not saying we need 4 gigs of ram like android. I think that much is clear. I do think that when they complied iOS 8 and saw the memory pressure it was creating they should have went on with the 2 gigs of ram from the start
 
dannys1 said:
Are you really? Why? Its utterly pointless. Maybe when I can have actual wireless charging so that my phone chargers whilst i'm walking around my house, that would be cool - or at the very least it charges whenever I lay it down on any surface. But having to put it on a pad which slow chargers the phone is really really useless.
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how is it useless. You can charge your phone and when you want to get up just pick the phone up, you don't need to unplug the cord. When you return after 5 mins, you just set the phone on the pad again instead of having to reconnect.
 
wigby said:
Apple doesn't prioritize specs. They prioritize features and user experience. Most users never have more than about 5 tabs open at once. If they do, like typical users, they simply close out all the old tabs to clear more space in the RAM. Apple has never catered to their 5% power user base. The RAM upgrade is fine but only about 5% of iPhone users are going to notice. The rest will just go on using their devices the same way and not whine about it on the forums like this.
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I don't think just 5% of the iPhone users will notice the RAM upgrade, it's much more. It's not just Safari tabs either, it's also regular apps that will benefit. They stared supporting multitasking back in iOS 4, but that doesn't work nicely if the apps you go back to need to refresh first, or if previous actions are lost due to lack of RAM. You don't even have to have that many tabs and apps open for it to start refreshing.

Not so many users know what RAM even is, but they will notice that their iPhones can remember more (and make the whole user experience faster in some ways too). A whole GB more is definitely noticeable.

I agree that Apple is all about user experience, but the RAM upgrade is a serious upgrade in convenience as proven by the 6S. I've been using iOS devices with both 128MB, 256MB, 512MB and 1GB; tab/app refreshes have always been annoying. The more RAM the better.
 
Glassed Silver said:
The iPad Pro is another product line.

That's also why there is no iPad Air 3, the upgrades introduced to iPad Pro, or well, it's a new product, they technically aren't upgrades, will be roughly what the next iPad Air has, they probably couldn't push for more, so iPad Air is now delegated to last year tech.

But I'm sure iPad Air, iPad Mini and iPhone will not get 4GB when it becomes necessary in future, Apple will ride it out and by the time they get it, iPad Pro will sit on 8GB.

rinse and repeat.

Glassed Silver:mac
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I don't see why you would need more than 8GB of ram in iOS device. By all means work on trying to be right. ;)
 
Mac Fly (film) said:
Well what do you know: turns out people who said the iPhone doesn't need 2 GB of RAM were wrong.

Also, nice massive ad on The Verge there, Nilay. Hello ad-block karma. Don't say you didn't bring this on yourselves :)
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"Need"?

The iPhone still doesn't need more RAM, but it's nice to have.
 
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