iPhone 6s and 6s Plus

iOS 8 was the biggest iOS release ever, but it has probably been the most buggiest release ever as well. Apple has released several software updates, which has reduced some of my major annoyances such as not being able to take a phone call, copy link not Share sheet etc, but there are still quite a few bugs that need to be fixed like the Wi-Fi issues that users still seem to be facing, frequent crashes of Safari and other apps, but as you might have guessed from the title, I am not writing to talk about them. My biggest frustration currently is that multitasking on my iPhone 6 Plus hardly seems to work. Whenever I switch between apps, most often the app ends up refreshing, which means that I have to navigate back to what I was doing, which is a colossal waste of my time. While I am fine if it happens occasionally, the current experience is quite frustrating.

iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus must-have feature: 2GB RAM or more

 So if I switch to Safari from an app or switch between tabs, it will reload the webpage, which also means that you end up using more data. If I am using YouTube, then it refreshes the app and takes me back to the Home page, so if I had searched for video, I have to search for it again, and hopefully find it, and forward it to the point I had stopped watching it etc. I am assuming that this is mostly because of the lack of RAM, though I am not sure why things weren’t so bad with the iPhone 5s, which had the same amount of RAM as the iPhone 6 Plus.

One of the strange things I have observed is that this happens a lot more with apps like Safari, YouTube, which makes it worse as they’re my most frequently used apps. I would be extremely happy if it is a software issue, and Apple magically fixes it in iOS 8.1.3 or iOS 8.2. If I had a PC or Mac, there was an easy way to fix the problem, I would have just upgraded the RAM to see if it helps.

I have used several iPhones since its launch, but this is the first time I’ve felt like disassembling my iPhone 6 Plus and upgrading the RAM (the reason for using the image above). So it may be a little early for a wish-list for the next generation iPhone, but I hope that the iPhone 6s Plus or iPhone 6 (or whatever Apple ends up calling it) has at least 2GB RAM. Though I highly doubt it will come with more than 2GB RAM, the chances of it coming with 2GB RAM seem to be quite good, since the iPad Air 2 comes with 2GB RAM and rumors have already indicated that next iPhone will come with 2GB RAM, in fact could Apple may use faster LPDDR4 RAM. Unless Apple fixes the issue I am having with a software update, I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to have at least 2GB of RAM in the next iPhone, if Apple cares about offering users a better user experience, which I know they do.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10

When we placed Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 in front of Joseph Volpe, it was all he could do not to roll his eyes. Rather than any headline features, the slate was merely an improvement on the second generation, just with a newer version of Android and, interestingly enough, an Intel chip. When he was done with it, Volpe remained as underwhelmed as when he’d began.

In his words, it’ll adequately do what you need it to do, but it won’t look pretty, or dazzle you with performance. At a price of $399, he suggested you take your cash elsewhere – but we imagine some of you didn’t heed his sage counsel. So, if you bought one, what did you think of it? Dive feet-first into our forum and tell us what you would have changed.

LG G4 Could 3K Display

According to myLGphones, a version of the LG G4 will not feature neither a 2K nor a 4K display – but 3K. If you are anything like me, your reaction to this news will be confusion. While we don’t have many details about the sources of this leak, it has apparently been confirmed true by a poster at hardare.fr that gave some more details on model names for each version of the upcoming LG flagship. However, these leaks don’t point towards all G4 phones having this resolution, but just the VS999 model that is allegedly coming to Verizon sometime this year.

The source claims that the UA profiles are not hard to manipulate, and that all of this could be bogus. They advise you to take this news with a pinch of salt, and frankly, I personally think you’ll need the whole shaker. But nonetheless, this makes for an interesting topic and, if true, a rather interesting development in the mobile industry. While everyone expected 2K or 1440p displays last year, and we expect 4K displays to come sometime near the end of 2015, I don’t think many expected phones to get to such an “in-betweener” state. Reports about 3K displays have been virtually nonexistent compared to the flood of articles predicting omens about the inevitable arrival of 4K.

It could be that, once more, LG wants to be at the vanguard of screen resolution. They pushed their 1440p LG G3 far and wide on this aspect alone, having being one of the first in the game. While Oppo had unveiled its Find 7 phone sporting the same resolution, LG beat them into the market and then completely overshadowed them with their G3 marketing campaign. I still remember the advertisements stating it was 4 times HD and touting the detail and sharpness of the screen. If LG would like to claim this spec primacy once more, 3K sounds like a reasonable solution, given that 4K screens are still far away and the next generation of chipsets will probably not be quite enough to push that many.

Will the Snapdragon 810 that is rumored to be in the G4 be enough for a 3K display as well? If you remember, the G3 featured a Snapdragon 801 that, while powerful, was obviously not quite ready to support a screen of that caliber. The results were pitiful GPU performance benchmarks, occasional stutters despite LG’s alleged optimizations, and disappointing game performance when compared to the more well-rounded phones. Despite all of this, however, the G3 became a success in great part due to this very screen, and it went on to become one of the most remembered phones of 2014. But with this strategy, LG could find themselves with a good success in their hands – just maybe not a top-notch user experience in terms of performance.

But then there are other technical aspects. First of all, the 1620×2880 screen would make for over 600 ppi. LG themselves declared 550ppi to be the most optimal configuration, to get “magazine print” quality. Their G3 was just short of that, but this phone surpasses it by quite a bit. Will they now say we need more? Or settle for that number, and claim that now they’ve finally hit (and surpassed) it? But then they’d fall back on their words next time they are required to upgrade the screen! We’ve covered the Resolution Wars in our article and we arrived at some nifty conclusions. While changes beyond 1440p will not be noticeable for many people, it still has some benefits and there’s a long way to go before achieving a perfect image. But here’s the glaring problem with 3K and 3K in particular: Its use for media consumption will be mitigated by the fact that we have 4K content being pushed, not 3K. By opting for the in-betweener you still miss out on a lot of the 4K resolution’s pixel count, and it makes this device seem a very short term transitory gimmick that will be severely out-upgraded in as little as 6 months.

I personally think this “premium LG G4″ will just be a water-testing gimmick designed to produce some extra niche sales. Luckily everything points towards it being a compartmentalized case that doesn’t conflict with previous reports, as other versions that we knew of before will still feature the more reasonable (for performance’s, battery’s, and upgrade’ss sake) 1440p screen that we are getting used to now. But if true, this would be the first year where major players adopted two resolution jumps in their phones. These developments might not be worth believing in their entirety, but they make for interesting discussion.

iPhone 7 Feature

The iPhone 7 rumors have already started pouring in even though the iPhone 6 just came out. Fans are speculating about the release date and features for the iPhone 7, among other aspects. 

 Mac World notes that it could actually be referred to as the iPhone 6S.

Meanwhile, Flickr user Jan-Willem Reusink has come out with some interesting iPhone 7 renderings.

They show a sharper body style as well as a reimagined home button.

Other improvements from the iPhone 6 include an edge-to-edge display, a completely solid back panel, and five application columns on the home screen as opposed to four.