“KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a note to investors that claims the so-called ‘iPhone 6s’ will be offered in 16GB, 64GB and 128GB storage capacities,” Joe Rossignol reports for MacRumors.
“Kuo also claims the iPhone 6s will have an improved front-facing FaceTime camera with a 5-megapixel sensor,” Rossignol reports, “and reaffirms three much-rumored features: Force Touch, a new rose gold casing color and an upgraded Touch ID fingerprint scanner.”
Apple’s current iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus models also offer 16GB, 64GB and 128GB storage options, so expect no changes of the storage front until 2016’s iPhone 7, at the earliest.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote on July 4th:
Obviously, 16GB is for a certain target market, one that can live in the iCloud. The problem with that model, however, is that inexperienced buyers and inattentive resellers foist 16GB iPhones on people who really cannot manage to live in the iCloud and therefore could end up hating their iPhone (it won’t update, it’s perpetually packed full and therefore runs poorly, can’t take any photos, can’t download day more apps, etcetera).
Apple needs to ask themselves if the benefits of having a 16GB iPhone (“low” entry price and upselling platform for higher capacity iPhones) are worth the risk of disappointing those who are likely buying their first iPhone. For Apple, the quality of the user experience should always come first.
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Apple, please kill the 16GB iPhone! – July 13, 2015
New iPhone 6s images show updated NFC, 16GB base storage, fewer chips and design tweaks – July 4, 2015