Apple may give the iPhone 18e one extra gigabyte and call it an AI upgrade
Apple’s cheapest new iPhone could receive one of the strangest specification upgrades in the company’s recent history. But rather than going from 8GB to a more typical 12GB of RAM, the iPhone 18e is reportedly landing with an odd 9GB of memory. GF Securities analyst Jeff Pu expects the iPhone 18e to include 9GB of RAM, according to MacRumors.
- ▪Apple’s cheapest new iPhone could receive one of the strangest specification upgrades in the company’s recent history.
- ▪But rather than going from 8GB to a more typical 12GB of RAM, the iPhone 18e is reportedly landing with an odd 9GB of memory.
- ▪GF Securities analyst Jeff Pu expects the iPhone 18e to include 9GB of RAM, according to MacRumors.
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Apple’s cheapest new iPhone could receive one of the strangest specification upgrades in the company’s recent history. But rather than going from 8GB to a more typical 12GB of RAM, the iPhone 18e is reportedly landing with an odd 9GB of memory. GF Securities analyst Jeff Pu expects the iPhone 18e to include 9GB of RAM, according to MacRumors. His prediction backs up an earlier report from TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, giving the unusual memory configuration considerably more credibility. Apple is expected to release the phone around March 2027 alongside the standard iPhone 18. The current iPhone 17e has 8GB of RAM, which is also the minimum required to run Apple Intelligence.
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