Something they "had" done at that time. The new Qualcomm processors as well as a couple of other players have developed 64 bit processors. Granted, even Qualcomm admitted they were caught off guard, but there are other 64 bit processors for phones other than Apple.
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Will 2GB of RAM to be iPhone 6 Plus only feature?
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I had an early launch 6+ that was getting tons of forced page reloads on Safari. That is, until Apple replaced my phone over the weekend after I noticed that wifi on the phone was running at about 30% of what my iPad Air, rMBP, iMac and my wife's 6 were running at. Resetting network setting brought the speed up to ~125Mbps, but within 30 minutes it fell back to 25-30 Mbps.
Now with my replacement 6+ (128Gb) I've yet to see any reloads.
Now with my replacement 6+ (128Gb) I've yet to see any reloads.
I bring up my points again, there is a lot that Apple does talk about that a lot fewer people understand, such as transistor counts, pixel size, 64 bit processor, etc. Lots of people know what RAM is, and even more would understand that doubling the RAM from 1GB to 2GB is a good thing, compared to going from 10 million to 20 million transistors.
Apple mostly talks about the technical aspects of a phone when they can boast about them being better than other phones, ex pixel size, 64 bit processor, transistors etc
What happens if they cut the RAM back to 1/2 of a GB so they have more room for the screen to depress when using force touch?
Many of the folks in here don't even think upping the iPhone RAM to 2GB is necessary for various reasons... Apple never emphasizes RAM during their product presentations. There may be a brief mention of it in passing if indeed the 2GB of LPDDR4 as rumored are included. But only in regards to increased efficiency and power savings. Apple isn't going to say that they've been effectively screwing every iteration from the 5S onwards with insufficient RAM.
It's quite amusing that you guys are arguing about whether the iPhone should have 2GBs of RAM when Android phones are due out soon with 4GBs of RAM (some already have 3GBs of RAM and my phone from 2012 has 2GBs of RAM).
My old note 3 that came out in 2013 has 3 gigs of RAM lol
An additional feature will be that the iPhone will be a little thicker to give it a little more structural integrity.
Right. And TouchWiz will use 2 of your 3GB for hand gestures and other nonsense, leaving you with 1GB for Apps. Apps that use more ram because they're poorly designed and have a huge overhead. So over hearing about the RAM in Android phones.
2 GBs in an iPhone will be great. But anything above that in a phone right now is stupid. The additional power draw for RAM thats just going un-utilized makes no sense, and only appeals to the dumbest of geeks. More people should be getting at Google to be more efficient with 1/2 Gigs of ram instead of being all like "WOW 4GBS OF RAM THIS PHONE IS GOING TO BE SO SMOOTH AND FAST!!"
Apps reloading takes way, way way more power than the miniscule additional power draw 3-4GB of ram takes.
I dare say that is an extremely weak argument.
Power draw from 2GB vs 3GB of RAM is extremely minuscule, the power draw is more on the type of RAM being used. With low powered DDR4 RAM being used in many high end Android phones released this year, you could argue that 1GB in the iPhone 6 actually uses more power than 2GB in the next iPhone if they use the newer low-powered RAM.
As the other poster said too, app reloading also takes a significant battery hit.
Boy oh boy, now I understand sunking. That is one of the all time totally wrong statements ever. Not a shred of truth.
Even if that were true, it's still a better situation than what we've currently got on iOS. We've got only 1GB RAM and the OS consumes about 700MB on a fresh boot, leaving ~300MB for apps.
I understand what you meant, but saying no amount of RAM is too much, is wrong. If you had 10GB of RAM, that's more than the entire OS itself, and would not be utilized.
You are overly obsessed with a meaningless (to 90% of the people) feature. You don't understand how memory works.
I meant that RAM is always utilised but obviously if there is way too much then it won't be. Seilerbird was making out like 3GB would be too much and sitting there unused.