The OnePlus Ace 2 Pro is tipped to be the first smartphone to be available with 24GB of RAM.
  • Wolfwood1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    If you thought the 12 to 16GB of RAM offered with most flagship Android devices today is enough

    You’re wrong, I thought 6 to 8GB of RAM were enough. I’m still rocking my OnePlus 5, and seeing their last few years I don’t think I’ll get another OnePlus smartphone.

    If you need more RAM on a smartphone than on a laptop, you’re doing something wrong. You can’t solve everything by just adding more RAM

  • WEAPONX@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Gotta make it more expensive somehow. And while we’re at it let’s remove some more customization options.

  • golli@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Is there any actual benefit for so much RAM in a phone? Outside of a higher number for marketing and increasing the price? And does this also increase power consumption or is there any benefit to more RAM that counteracts that?

    Personally i am still waiting for phones to become proper desktop replacements, in which case i’d maybe see more use in this. They already have more than enough performance for the average user, since 9/10 people probably just browse the web and do some general office work.

    • copium@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Pretty much what I think, it’s just bad marketing.
      No one need 24gb of ram on a smartphone and only very few on computer.

    • limerod@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Emulation, some switch games require 12GB of ram, advanced computational photography(HDR+, super night mode, etc), running those AI models locally on your device (think chatgpt, or something other model for audio, pictures, etc) 6 and 8GB are no longer enough. I run into multi tasking and app reload issues with 6GB of ram, if i disable samsung’s ram plus. But, for the average user 8 and 12 should be sufficient.

      As for your question regarding power consumption, it could be more. But, it could also be negated by reduced app reloads. I wouldn’t worry about power consumption. Your display, network modem, and the SoC are one of the biggest sources of battery drain. Ram hardly adds much to the equation.