A recently story popped up from our pals at GSMArena regarding the performance differences between various models of iPhones. Comparing the base model 32GB iPhone 7 against the 128GB iPhone 7 and the 64GB iPhone 6S, they found the base model couldn’t read and write to storage as quickly as the mid tier iPhones. The hypothesis: Apple is using “slower” storage in the base model phones.
Now, it’s tricky gauging overall performance from synthetic benchmarks, and happily GSMArena also included their own video test to confirm the performance deficit, but we’re not entirely sure we’re all arriving at the right conclusion.
