I never knew about this before only after buying my iPhone 6S 128GB Space Gray did I know that there are 2 diff. chips, one from Samsung and the other from TSMC.
Luckily, my phone has the TSMC chip which is supposed to have better battery life. My wife's iPhone 6S Plus 128GB Rose Gold has the Samsung chip unfortunately although we bought them from the same store on the same day.
There is no way you could tell which chip your phone has before actually opening the box and checking with some app.
To find out which chip your phone has, download "Lirum Device Info", I downloaded the paid version because I am allergic to ads, there is a Lite version which is free, then when you open the app at the bottom you will see under model which chip you have! N71mAP and N66mAP are TSMC chips, N71AP and N66AP are Samsung
My phone's model is MKQT2ZP/A and the chip is N71mAP
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It's not really that big deal... at least not for most people. When running highly-demanding software, like high end games, the Taiwan Semiconductor version is going to get better battery life. In other situations, like web or email, the difference will be small.
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I think "Chipgate" or whatever it's called now is ridiculous. Sure it's quite bizarre that Apple contracted out 2 OEMs to fab the chip, but even more strange that it came out with 2 different slight designs. In the end, I think many reviewers found VERY little difference, so honestly it doesn't matter.
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Remember this? Could it have anything to do that maybe those iPhones were also having the Samsung chip which is causing the overheating?
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This whole chipgate thing is a joke. It's a negligible difference in real life performance between them and phones these days get hot, its a fact of life. Seriously...
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Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow
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At least the bendgate resulted in sturdier followup models.
My phone has Samsung chip but so far I haven't had problems with battery or excessive heating. Apparently my usage isn't heavy enoughSpartan@HIDevolution likes this. -
And is there a way you can tell before buying it?
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I don't know if this helps or not, but my phone is made in Hong Kong not China, and the product Code is MKQT2ZP/A -
Humm, well then you can tell by checking where the iphone was made... Is there anywhere in the box that it says where it was made?
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So now it's even harder to tell because I was thinking that maybe the Hong Kong manufactured ones were sporting the TSMC chip.
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I'm still using a 5S, but is the MLC/TLC lottery still a thing with the 6S as it was in the 6?
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Check to see if it says 3 bits per cell (TLC) or 2 bits per cells (MLC)
I'm guessing you have TLC.
iPhone 6S / 6S Plus Chipgate, what chip do you have?
Discussion in 'Smartphones and Tablets' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Nov 10, 2015.