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Apple to double iPhone and iPad RAM in 2015

By Roland Banks 0 comments Last updated December 19, 2014

Apple RAM Main Pic

Apple may intend to double the RAM found in the iPhone and iPad in next year’s 2015 updates, according to a news report from Taiwanese website EMSOne which itself quoted financial news site Advanced Financial Network (Google Translate).

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  • iPhone RAM to increase to 2 GB and iPad RAM to 4 GB
  • Optimised hardware requires less RAM

iPhone RAM to increase to 2 GB and iPad RAM to 4 GB

Both of Apple’s hit devices have come under criticism by many people who believe the devices need more memory, partly a result of Android smartphones and tablets that tend to have 2GB or more of main memory. The news report states that next year’s iPhone 6S will be endowed with 2 GB of RAM, while the iPad Air 3 will have 4 GB.

Optimised hardware requires less RAM

In the past, the argument has been that iOS is more optimised for the hardware that it runs on than Android (which runs on a multiplicity of devices), and therefore doesn’t need as much memory. Unfortunately, there have been lots of complaints on Internet forums in which people have complained in particular about tabs in Safari reloading, especially when there are lots of them open at once.

iPad RAM - Air 2
The iPad Air 2 has 2 GB of RAM (orange modules) according to iFixit.

 

With the latest generation iPad Air 2, Apple has in fact beefed up the RAM from 1 GB in the iPad Air 1, to 2 GB according to iFixit who discovered as much in it’s iPad Air 2 teardown. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, according and iFixit’s iPhone 6 teardown still has only 1 GB. It remains to be seen whether Apple really will increase the iPhone and iPad RAM in future models, because that undoubtedly has an impact on battery life. But with ever more energy efficient CPU’s and other internal components, it may at last be possible for Apple to significantly increase the amount of memory in both devices.

Related

You can read more about how to fix low memory issues with the iPad Air here and issues with Safari crashing in this article.

Roland Banks
Roland Banks

Roland Banks has been passionate about Apple for more than a decade. He started his career at British Telecom’s research division working on collaborative virtual reality environments, before becoming a video streaming specialist at 3 UK where he helped launch some of the world’s first mobile video services.

Roland moved to Asia 4 years ago, where he writes about his passion for all things Apple.

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