I don't think they will, either. But I'd love one in the current iPod Touch shell (which seemed like a shrunken precursor to the 6/6+ anyway, right down to the camera lens bump).
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I don't think they will, either. But I'd love one in the current iPod Touch shell (which seemed like a shrunken precursor to the 6/6+ anyway, right down to the camera lens bump).
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FWIW, the 6+ case is totally nice and exceptionally premium feeling. I just like hard angles and its decidedly curvy. If you want to upgrade don't let that hold you back. Theres no reason to believe the 7 formfactor will be more murderous and harsh looking. In fact it will probably be even more curved?
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I have a macbook pro with 2gigs of ram plugging away at itunes match as we speak.
Only iOS device with 2gigs is the Air2 I believe.
Only iOS device with 2gigs is the Air2 I believe.
CornBurrito
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I hate to be "that guy" but I've honestly been pretty fine with 1GB on my phone. I wouldn't mind 2GB so that my Safari tabs don't have to refresh as often, but I don't feel the need for 3GB+ or whatever the standard for high end Android phones is.
I know Apple/iPhone hate is pretty common, and spec-wise the hate might be justified. But I'm more than content to have a lower spec phone in exchange for aesthetics and iOS. I'm a sheep in that regard I suppose.
Dreadnought
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Android user here (coming from iOS). Honestly I think iPhone will be fine with 2GB given its efficient infrastructure. I wish Apple would stop trying to make force-touch a thing though.
That said, with 3 GB and touchwiz support, multi-tasking on my Note 4 is godly.
That said, with 3 GB and touchwiz support, multi-tasking on my Note 4 is godly.
Yes it is. And at release the iPad Air 2 was the fastest tablet in it's class.
CornBurrito
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Browsers are unusable for me on iOS devices because of the low ram.
Eh, what are you trying to accomplish that makes the browser completely unusable?
The image is humorous, but I don't feel I need to defend being partial to iOS and the apple ecosystem. I tried Android phones, and while they are superior in specs and customization capability I personally don't care much for specs, and I also don't particularly like messing with my phone to make heavy use of the customization that Android has.
I may try Android in the future. The Galaxy (which was my first Android phone) is just ugly as fuck though. And the Playstore feels cheap.
Dreadnought
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Any site that has a lot of images will always crash the browser because the images fill up its cache.
There's also apps completely restarting and losing my progress when I just closed them seconds earlier.
Wonder how the next iPad Air is going to fair against Nvidia's X1 chip
Zuhzuhzombie!!
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I have the new force touch Macbook. It's not really that fantastic a tech as far as I've seen.
Jazzy Network
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Ugh my browser constantly crashes when I use my iPad mini 2. I can't stand it and I figure to sell it soon.
CharminUltra
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Aw yiss, I'm due for an upgrade this year.
Chittagong
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My god. She is so hot that I am not at all mad that I can't figure out the connection to new iPhone
I really love how they always make S models which I have no temptation whatsover to get, and can happily stay on the big releases upgrade cycle. Seems like this is the case again. iPhone 7 Plus will be mine.
From this quote here, pretty good. Seems like Apple do great engineering with their A-series chips.
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Nothing that sounds like a 'must-have' compared to my 6+...
Until I feel it in my hand though, who knows?
I've learned to appreciate the Rubenesque beauty of my 3DS XL, and while I like skinny, pocketable phones, I'm really not sure how much thinner than a 6/6+ I would want.
Until I feel it in my hand though, who knows?
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iOS 8 was supposed to be about bug fixes and smoothness lol
iOS 9 is about bug fixing those bug fixes and smoothing that smoothness
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That is 200% factually incorrect.
infiniteloop
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You don't like it on the Apple Watch or new MacBooks?
iOS 8 was initially about Handoff & Continuity with OS X, Widgets, New Photos app, Health and later Apple Watch App and soon, Beats/Streaming Music Service.
Daffy Duck
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I'll upgrade from my 5s as in November I've had it 2 years, would love one that size, not a huge lover of the size of the 6.
Try viewing pdfs. The performance is bad. 1 is too low. You can bet apple won't put in 3gb because they will sell you 2 first.
CornBurrito
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Ah yeah I haven't done too much pdf viewing.
Anyway a shame they won't put in 3gb, but is it really just to sell people 3gb later? Do the majority of iPhone users care about the specs to that degree?
Daffy Duck
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I'd agree. I love it.
I doubt most people do. I mainly use pdf's for board game rules. So I'm hoping for more ram on the phone and on the ipad to make for a better experience.
2gb of ram is expected at this point, keeping 1gb for the new phone would be something else. This mentions new casing materials, I hope the aluminum on the space grey model is darker, kinda like the space grey apple watch. That looks much better.
Gonna jump back into iOS with this phone. Experimenting with android was fun but there's not many features that I use that make me want to stay.
Gonna jump back into iOS with this phone. Experimenting with android was fun but there's not many features that I use that make me want to stay.
Chittagong
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The main problem with Safari is that when you go between tabs it will forget amd reload the tab when you return. I mean, how fucking big can a page be. Nothing more infuriating to write a long post on GAF, go check some detail via Google and lose the post-in-progress. It has made me nervously tap back to the post constantly to keep it hanging to life while I browse something else.
Still, I still can't believe how unbelievably bad Safari is on iOS 8. The fact alone that iPhones have 1 GB of RAM is not enough to explain how bad and unstable Safari (on iOS 8) is.
Even on an iPad Air 2, Safari is incredibly unpredictable and can easily crash ("A problem occurred with this web page so it was reloaded." or simply a crash to the home screen). And of course, the standard refresh of webpages which can either be attributed to too little RAM, or there is enough RAM and iOS/Safari is badly optimized.
Safari on older versions of iOS ran much better.
I use PDF's quite a bit on my work iPad Mini 2. I use the iBooks app and that seems okay. Better than Safari.
I'm sure it's good to have more ram and all that, but my rMBP with 16GB ram constantly refreshes tabs even when I'm only running safari with a few windows open.
I feel like this whole "tabs refresh a lot" thing that people talk about so much on GAF is at least somewhat intentionally coded that way by Apple instead of just being merely about how much ram iOS devices have.
BTW whenever I write a long GAF post on iOS and I got to check something on another page I always post it and then edit it after checking the other page because yeah what your describing happens to me too.
Jill Sandwich
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I think you'll be a satisfied customer!
iOS 8 was about including what was cut due to Apple starting over with iOS. They more or less remade the OS in 9 months and due to that a lot had to be cut feature wise. Now they're finally catching up and will focus on making the OS where it should be in terms of performance and stability.
The same source of these rumors also said that next year the will be a new 4inch phone from Apple.
The opposite actually, iOS 8 was about giving apps and developers a new bunch of liberties that didn't have before and when you open things up having lots of bugs is normal, iOS 9 will probably be the Snow Leopard/Mavericks of iOS.
What Android phone has something like Force Touch? FT is not the same as the "long hold" on Android
I look forward to their Rose Gold though. Bet it looks great, going to be a huge winner
cjp
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Copy and paste is a thing. Always copy any text you've entered before switching out a tab on iOS.
Good to see a MP bump in the camera. iPhones always have among the best cameras in mobile, and I know MP is hardly the most important factor, but it's still nice to get an improvement.
Interested to see what this Force Touch is all about.
Safari on iOS 8 ran much better. I honestly think the 'problem ocurred' thing is some sort of bug, as I've seen it much more often after the last couple of 8 updates than back when iOS 8 was new. I don't think it really has much to do with RAM. The tab refreshes (and how aggressively Safari does that by default) are more related to that I believe.
Interested to see what this Force Touch is all about.
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Safari on iOS 8 ran much better. I honestly think the 'problem ocurred' thing is some sort of bug, as I've seen it much more often after the last couple of 8 updates than back when iOS 8 was new. I don't think it really has much to do with RAM. The tab refreshes (and how aggressively Safari does that by default) are more related to that I believe.
cjp
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That's true. It can become a real pain pretty quickly.
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Force touch is kind of pointless to me when it comes to laptop trackpads, but I could see it adding a ton of useful functionality to touchscreen smart devices.
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i was just being a bit of a troll as it seems like making devices smaller and sleeker is a big thing. I personally dont have issues Rubenesque devices, and I wouldn't mind a chunky device alsong as the feature set supported it (like massive battery, SD Card, other accessories).
Apple just has this obsession where it's always "thinner and sleeker" and it gets to a point where it just doesn't sit right in my hand as i tend to like the feel of something with heft.
Netherscourge
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Wouldn't pressure sensitivity on a glass screen be a slightly bad idea?
Don't you risk damaging pixels (and/or other stuff) over time?
I would prefer they add that cool Analog-Stick Home Button stuff they filed a patent for a few months ago. It would make gaming feel more natural.
Don't you risk damaging pixels (and/or other stuff) over time?
I would prefer they add that cool Analog-Stick Home Button stuff they filed a patent for a few months ago. It would make gaming feel more natural.
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Seems to work fine on the watch.
victreeb3l
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Thinking about getting a 6+ S now. 6 is a solid size but I think I'm ready to get a bigger screen. Used my buddies 6+ for a while and its manageable.
Better camera + screen any day.
Better camera + screen any day.
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