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Will 2GB of RAM to be iPhone 6 Plus only feature?

adamhenry said:
If you could convince 999 people to boycott Apple with you, Apple wouldn't have any clue that you and your friends even existed. What's the point?
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Irrelevant.

And the the point is I can be a person that likes and buys Apple products without being a sucker duped into buying gimped products, designed at the customers expense, so Carl Ichan can be happy.

It's entirely possible to be an Apple fan without being sheep that eats whatever slop Apple lays in front of you.

The iPhone 6 and 6+ are terrible products that were clearly made without any care for customer experience whatsoever. It was made purely to pad profits and nothing more. The RAM issue is a big symptom of this.
 
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QuarterSwede said:
The 6 Plus also has twice the resolution of the 6. That one change seems to be causing most of the Plus's issues.
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Yes, exactly. I'm a huge Apple fan. I have everything they make for God's sake. But the 6+ is underpowered for the resolution it runs at memory wise. You should not have to basically force quit every single app to run memory intensive apps on a flagship device. It CAN run 1-2 apps comfortably, but have any more then that and the thing just slows down until the memory leaks cause it to restart, blue screen and restart, or just freeze. This is my 3rd iPhone 6 Plus. When I bring it in, they look at the error log history and say it's normal. How can the crashes be normal?!

By the way my phone, since being jailbroken, ironically has less crashes then before it was jailbroken. I had a clean from-stock install of iOS 8.4 by the way, and that was giving me all the crashes and restarts. Since jailbreaking and installing some tweaks that remove some animations and manually clear memory, the phone is actually running a lot better. But it shouldn't be necessary to have to do this. I simply cannot stress how much I cannot wait for the 6S Plus.
 
Can't imagine if they improve "6s Plus" 5'5 iPhone to 2 gb of ram and leave "6s" 4'7 as 1gb because something did not match up "for them".

Therefore if that happens... I am saying goodbye to Apple.
 
Apple would not just give the 2GB to the iPhone 6S Plus. It wouldn't make any sense.
 
xaqt93 said:
Apple would not just give the 2GB to the iPhone 6S Plus. It wouldn't make any sense.
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It's not enough of a hook, thats for sure. There has to be something more too it

3GS: 7.2 Mbit/s HSDPA (Speed)
4S: Siri
5S: Touch ID
6S: ?
 
Technarchy said:
It's not enough of a hook, thats for sure. There has to be something more too it

3GS: 7.2 Mbit/s HSDPA (Speed)
4S: Siri
5S: Touch ID
6S: ?
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I think the poster you quoted was specifically talking about giving 2GB ram to the Plus model exclusively, rather than it being the flagship feature. Adding more RAM is just something that needs to happen - it shouldn't be touted as some great innovation by Apple!

I think the 'flagship' feature will be Force Touch.
 
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sunking101 said:
Some of us want 2015/2016 premium smartphone capabilities. Technology moves on at a rapid pace and the concept of merely using a phone for calls, SMS and camera died some years ago. Perhaps you don't need a smartphone but some of us want computing power in our pockets and the technology is available right now. Apple claim to be at the very forefront of the smartphone tech race and as the years roll by so should the spec and capability of smartphones increase.

Let me guess, you only want the camera & battery life to improve and everything else to stay the same because it 'does the job for you' just fine as things stand now?
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Perfect
 
Like everyone else has said, iOS9 has resolved a lot of the resuming problems with Safari. Yes, apps will still have refresh issues because there is limited RAM and battery available to power the phone. But at the very least that's a far less annoying problem than the one plaguing Safari, and they've fixed it.

Truthfully though, battery life and RAM are the #1 and #2 things killing Apple in direct comparisons to flagship Android devices. It would benefit everyone if Apple just bit the bullet and met those two demands within the same price point they have now.
 
Luuthian said:
Truthfully though, battery life and RAM are the #1 and #2 things killing Apple in direct comparisons to flagship Android devices.
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More than that as a Galaxy S6 owner.

More advanced display tech across the board.
Flat out superior front and rear camera.
Better default storage at 32gb.
Higher fidelity DAC.

These aren't just superfluous specs for the sake of specs either. The above all have a tangible impact on the user experience to an extent that does make it difficult to return to hardware gimped for margins iPhones.
 
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okwhatev said:
Yes, exactly. I'm a huge Apple fan. I have everything they make for God's sake. But the 6+ is underpowered for the resolution it runs at memory wise. You should not have to basically force quit every single app to run memory intensive apps on a flagship device. It CAN run 1-2 apps comfortably, but have any more then that and the thing just slows down until the memory leaks cause it to restart, blue screen and restart, or just freeze. This is my 3rd iPhone 6 Plus. When I bring it in, they look at the error log history and say it's normal. How can the crashes be normal?!

By the way my phone, since being jailbroken, ironically has less crashes then before it was jailbroken. I had a clean from-stock install of iOS 8.4 by the way, and that was giving me all the crashes and restarts. Since jailbreaking and installing some tweaks that remove some animations and manually clear memory, the phone is actually running a lot better. But it shouldn't be necessary to have to do this. I simply cannot stress how much I cannot wait for the 6S Plus.
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iOS 9 has MUCH better memory management on the 6 Plus. I basically haven't had any problems since running the public betas. They have to be using some crazy tricks to get it to run this smooth on 1GB, but they work.
 
okwhatev said:
Yes, exactly. I'm a huge Apple fan. I have everything they make for God's sake. But the 6+ is underpowered for the resolution it runs at memory wise. You should not have to basically force quit every single app to run memory intensive apps on a flagship device. It CAN run 1-2 apps comfortably, but have any more then that and the thing just slows down until the memory leaks cause it to restart, blue screen and restart, or just freeze. This is my 3rd iPhone 6 Plus. When I bring it in, they look at the error log history and say it's normal. How can the crashes be normal?!

By the way my phone, since being jailbroken, ironically has less crashes then before it was jailbroken. I had a clean from-stock install of iOS 8.4 by the way, and that was giving me all the crashes and restarts. Since jailbreaking and installing some tweaks that remove some animations and manually clear memory, the phone is actually running a lot better. But it shouldn't be necessary to have to do this. I simply cannot stress how much I cannot wait for the 6S Plus.
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That's strange. I rarely force quit apps and have yet to experience any sort of issues with restarting, freezing or blue screens. My phone's completely stock and running the latest version of iOS. I use it quite often too, taking pictures and video, playing games, browsing the web, chatting and checking social media.

I totally agree with the memory. More is always welcome, especially when dealing with higher resolution displays.
 
iPhone never win on specifications.

I think apple will add some other features besides the memory,
 
JXinxi said:
iPhone never win on specifications.

I think apple will add some other features besides the memory,
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This isn't about specs, it's really more about catching up with the times at this point.
 
I believe it will have force touch, better camera' s , better cellular.
And 2 gig, tri- or quadcore soc.
And perhaps higher dpi displays.

Iphone 6s will have 1704X960 display(568x320@3x) 416 dpi
Iphone 6s+ will have a 2001x1125 display(667x375@3x) 417 dpi

The 1704x960 was a rumor prior to the iphone 6 launch, just as the rumours of a force touch /haptic feedback display would perhaps be included in the iphone 6. None of these features made it to the 6.

Studying rumours of the recent years, they are always a year or a generation ahead....
 
cambookpro said:
I think the poster you quoted was specifically talking about giving 2GB ram to the Plus model exclusively, rather than it being the flagship feature. Adding more RAM is just something that needs to happen - it shouldn't be touted as some great innovation by Apple!

I think the 'flagship' feature will be Force Touch.
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Agreed!
 
Technarchy said:
More than that as a Galaxy S6 owner.

More advanced display tech across the board.
Flat out superior front and rear camera.
Better default storage at 32gb.
Higher fidelity DAC.

These aren't just superfluous specs for the sake of specs either. The above all have a tangible impact on the user experience to an extent that does make it difficult to return to hardware gimped for margins iPhones.
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I question your camera claims and do not see the display being better than the 6. They look comparable imho. But hey you have a good dac...
 
Renho said:
It has been confirmed, 2gb of ram for all the devices....

http://bgr.com/2015/09/10/iphone-6s-ipad-pro-ram-memory/
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No it hasn't been confirmed for the iPhones (yet), BGR is simply talking out of its *** saying Apple confirmed 2gb of RAM to MobileSyrup :rolleyes:

If you actually click on the MobileSyrup article you don't find anything even close to them saying Apple confirmed anything regarding RAM for the new iPhones:
The devices have 2GB of RAM and a new A9 chip which promises nearly double the CPU and GPU processing power over the A8
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BGR is a trash site that simply lie to get page clicks. Next time quote another, more reputable site for news...
 
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