iPhone 6S Rumor Roundup

Many new rumors have been popping up around Apple’s future iPhone 6s, and we’ve taken the time to round them up for you. The latest rumor reported by AppleInsider from a “person familiar with Apple’s future product plans” states that the new 6S will include 2gigs of RAM doubling the amount from the 1gig of RAM that has been the norm since the iPhone 5, which was launched back in 2012.

The additional gig of RAM will allow background tasks and tabs in Safari to be open for longer without any need of reloading or refreshing. We think this additional gig of RAM will go a long way in the new 6S because if Apple has shown us anything, it’s that they are extremely proficient at optimizing all their hardware and software. But there is a big chance we may see a boost to battery drain with the memory addition, since memory constantly consumes power. We will have to see if Apple decides to increase the battery size to combat this additional drain.

The next rumor also comes from AppleInsider’s reported Apple insider shared with them Apple’s plan to ship its next-gen handsets with Apple SIMs pre-installed. For those of you who don’t know Apple SIM which was debut on the iPad Air 2, allows users to sign up for a mobile data plan from any carrier directly from the Settings app without a long-term contract. Users are also able to switch providers at anytime, and all this comes straight out of the box. As awesome as this news may or may not be, expect it to shake up the industry a bit. Many carriers had come together to force Apple to scrap similar plans in the past, but with the huge success of Apple’s iPhone 6, carries are likely to have a lot less power in resisting this change.

Next up we will talk about the reported “Force Touch” which was also shared by AppleInsider. This feature may or may not make it into the 6S, but this feature, which is already planned for the Apple Watch, will give the iPhone 6S' digitizer the ability to distinguish between a tap and a deep press on the display through tiny electrodes. Giving the iPhone the ability to distinguish between two different types of touches will allow iOS to presumably present users with a wider array of options and controls. We will have to wait for the Apple Watch to see if the “most significant new sensing capability since Multi-Touch” (Apple’s statement not ours) is all that it is reported to be.

The last rumor we will mention is that apparently Apple’s next-gen iPhones will not include a dual lens camerasystem capable of taking DSLR quality images. This rumor first came about from the typically reliable John Gruber this past November.

Do you think these rumors are just realistic enough to become a reality for the 6S, and what kind of impact do you think features such as Apple SIM or Force Touch will change the mobile industry? We definitely think Apple SIM can change the way carriers do business in the mobile market, but whether or not Force Touch will be revolutionary we will have to wait for the Apple Watch to find out.