A leaked schematic for the iPhone 6, posted by GeekBar on Weibo, alleged shows that the upcoming smartphone will have 1GB of RAM.
It's unclear if the schematic is for the 4.7-inch or 5.5-inch iPhone 6. One GB of RAM would be less than the 2 GBs in many flagship Android devices and the same amount of RAM as the iPhone 5, 5c, and 5s.
In a world where flagship Android smartphones come with at least 2 GB of RAM, the iPhone 6 doesn’t sound powerful enough to compete with the most sought-after devices from the opposite camp. Nevertheless, Apple is a wizard when it comes to optimization and iOS has always been capable of successfully handling the same tasks as Android, while requiring fewer resources.
Previous reports have said that the iPhone 6 will feature a 2.0 GHz A8 processor, 802.11ac, Category 6 LTE, and more.
Take a look at the schematic below and please follow iClarified on Twitter, Facebook, or RSS for updates.
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calcalcal - August 30, 2014 at 3:57am
my android z1 compact is a great phone moved from apple january and never went back, i loved apple, but they're boring, when push comes to shove. iphone looks better, but hey z1 looks great.
p.s z1 from january 2014 2.2ghz 2gb ram.
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calcalcal - August 30, 2014 at 9:43pm
a coin has two sides
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gamerscul9870 - August 30, 2014 at 10:18pm
And an ass has two cheeks.
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calcalcal - August 31, 2014 at 10:05pm
Well said. :)
pity your the guy in the middle.
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areilly111 - August 20, 2014 at 1:43am
Ahahahaah I always live the comments. The apple and android fan boys just fighting its kinda entertaining.
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zetaprime - August 19, 2014 at 2:53am
That would be disappointing if true, but hard to imagine with RAM being relatively cheap why they would not want to keep up with the times.
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gamerscul9870 - August 19, 2014 at 3:06am
Theo ly disappointing thing here is finding out how more ram isn't everything like last time, what about how much ghz is out in it compared to the others, putting as much ram in it barely makes the difference so technically more or less, it's ghz that makes anyone keep up.
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Apple fan - August 19, 2014 at 1:57am
No matter the ram. Not one android phone stands up to the current IPhone anyways. Lol
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gamerscul9870 - September 5, 2014 at 2:50am
Because of the gb of ram staying the same, androids do it because of different manufactors and that's the only way to power the chips, a# chips uses ghz as their power because apple is a different version just like both platforms. The only tit squeezing juice consumer is you. Retina display even for such a small screen is clear, it lives up to it's name compared to ipad and MacBooks which have the highest display compared to an average PC. Retina in general never fails.
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Verge Jiner - August 19, 2014 at 12:32am
That's Apple for you...keep the same hardware as the iPhone 5 and make the screen bigger. Hey Presto iPhone 6. Baa baa baaa
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jujuzinho - August 18, 2014 at 11:53pm
it has a pentium 1 100mhz processor. it will run Doom!
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Tom - August 18, 2014 at 11:42pm
No full Hd screen 1gb ram Wow shapeing up to be another great prenium phone, Not!
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Tom - August 18, 2014 at 11:41pm
No full Hd screen 1gb ram Wow shapeing up to another great prenium phone, Not!
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areilly111 - August 18, 2014 at 9:00pm
It's not like the iPhone needs anymore. Hell the 4s is still a ok phone and it only has 800mhz dual core with 512m. Of ram.
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zetaprime - August 19, 2014 at 2:56am
It needs to be more than just an OK phone. Shooting for mediocrity is hardly the way to go for what used to be such an innovative company.
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areilly111 - August 19, 2014 at 5:20pm
i was talking about the 4s being a ok phone. the 6 will be great it doesn't need more ram ATM with the way apple designed ios
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ILoveNoGoodNick - August 18, 2014 at 3:06pm
Update 7:19 AM: The schematic's references DDR and NAND suggests that it more likely refers to some aspect of the device's flash memory rather than DRAM included within the A8 chip
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Diego Vilar - August 18, 2014 at 3:05pm
It's not java.. Neither iOS nor Windows Phone need as much RAM as Android to achieve similar performance levels.
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iDontKnow - August 18, 2014 at 2:58pm
No need for upgrade as it still have 1GB of RAM. Switching to note 4 is this will be a waterproof phone.
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gamerscul9870 - August 18, 2014 at 3:01pm
I wouldn't give my hopes up for plastic junk. Every apple device that's new always outpaces androids, that's why I would compare those two, besides I use liquipel to waterproof my iPhone just for $60.
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justabrake - August 18, 2014 at 6:33pm
Why do you work in and around water to need a waterproof phone
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zetaprime - August 19, 2014 at 2:59am
Accidents happen and sometimes you might happen to be using your phone near water..the Earth is 70% covered with water so it's not such an unlikely event. And there are places even in your home where water is found, like sinks, toilets, etc where phones are known to be accidentally dropped.
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zetaprime - August 19, 2014 at 3:03am
But why shoul you pay extra and have to send your phone away somewhere and lose use of it for some unspecified period while it is shipped, worked on, and then returned? Since there are phones that already come waterproofed right out of the box then there's no excuse for any manufacturer to fail to do it.
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tommyy - August 18, 2014 at 2:51pm
iPhone Pro 5.5" will have 4GB DDR3.
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What142 - August 18, 2014 at 2:46pm
So are they going to charge less for old technology??? Nope! We're apple and we are still going to sticket it to you because we know we have conditioned you and you'll buy anything we put an apple logo on! Have a great day! Marketing at its best!
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gamerscul9870 - August 18, 2014 at 2:45pm
Well said. iPhone is still faster with less ram, it's the ghz that counts.
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rules - August 18, 2014 at 5:24pm
Lexus for woman and old pplz, same as iphone.
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DarkSide - August 19, 2014 at 1:23am
@ rules.. LOL
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gamerscul9870 - August 19, 2014 at 1:26am
Nuck fucks, rules drools, Melinda for the winna'! Hands down to that! LAWL
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