am I only one who thinks that ≥6GB RAM for phones is just too much as most of the time the unused RAM gets wasted for no goddamn reason but the only one being that the companies want their product(s) to look more compelling in `spec sheets` and it's a competitive market so it ok for them to do so...

They need to put these kinda specs in tablets. They're actually usable to their max potential. 🤷

My phone's internal memory is not even half of that 😶

I think that they try to hide their unoptimized code. Like everyone tries to hide that behind higher requirements...

@hypervtechnics that's basically
lenovo...

With upcoming federated ML designs which promotes every single mobile as individual system to train and build machine learning models, such RAM will be useful.

@FrodoSwaggins Nobody talked about Apple but smartphones in general. And many manufacturers don't give a shit about battery life as long as they can put impressive numbers on their ad.

Android need 6gb of RAM because garbage collection needs the overhead to operate efficiently.

I have 6 GB of RAM in My OnePlus 3T and I have never used them. Normal Usage is about 3 Gigs...Nobody would ever need 12!

There was a time when people said 1 MB was all anyone would ever need, then 512 MB, then 1 GB, etc.

Too many resources inspire people to lazy designs and decisions. I work with 64K and that is plenty

I was very skeptic about hw config of smarphones, for years... and here I am now, converting and cutting videos for ex. for social media on my phone

Optimizing for low ram is inferior than optimizing for low CPU and IO. Both CPU and IO (network / flash drive access) take more energy and are significantly slower than caching stuff in RAM so adding more memory and give developers the incentive to "waste" ram in order to save IO/CPU cycles will benefit us.

did you mean: LG electronics

Until android becomes less of a bloated mess, yes we will need more RAM. iOS needs nowhere near as much.

@FrodoSwaggins apple isn't the only phone company you know and others don't copy everything they do. (If anything it's the other way around)

I often have over 5GB of RAM in use on my phone as I never close apps. As a result, the startup time of any app is instant, no loading whatsoever.
I'd never again buy a phone with less than 6GB RAM.

RAM past 6GB is only used rarely though

@succcubbus I bet I'd shutter looking at your phone with so many apps open lol

@deadlyRants if anything wouldn't you say that other smartphone manufacturers would say the same thing? That is how I took it. I mean, Samsung could have said the same thing no?

I too had to get used to it at first.
I always closed any app that wasn't in active use on my previous phone which had too little RAM.
Still feels cluttered scrolling through the currently 39 open apps, but hey any one of them is kept in memory and opens instantly.
It's a trade-off ;)

Over 3gb ram is totally waste. I currently have 850 mb ram and even this is enough for multitasking. Come on! Nobody plays 2 games when checking excel files and surfing internet with 5 tabs open while listening to music and looking at grandma's photos.

@FrodoSwaggins RAM power is very minimal, as someone said earlier, the CPU cycles to repeatedly read from disk is more than the power to hold it in cache.

@FrodoSwaggins Apples needs are completely different to android manufacturers, iOS is well optimized, android is an unoptimized Java VM mess.

@FrodoSwaggins @Wozza365 😧 first you have to have lots of RAM on devices and then you can create apps that use it. Of course if you put apps that are optimized for low ram they won't change their performance if they have more...