Asus and Xiaomi made headlines with their respective 4GB RAM phones in 2015. Now that makers like OnePlus 2 and some other OEMs have made 4GB RAM mainstream, how much does it take to get a phone with that much RAM?
Not too much, apparently. Well, at least according to Lenovo, whose K80M smartphone as per our knowledge is the cheapest 4GB RAM phone on the market right now.
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Let’s take a look at the specifications sheet of the Lenovo K80M. It has a 5.5-inch 1920 x 1080p display, an Intel Moorefield Z3560 quad-core 1.8GHz processor, 4GB RAM, 64GB on-board storage, and a camera set in a 13 mega-pixel rear and a 5 mega-pixel front. It isn’t short on battery capacity either, with a 4000mAh cell in there.
There’s a trade off you’ll have to make, however. The K80M has an older Android version — Android 4.4 KitKat — running on it.
Despite that, sub-$200 for a 4GB RAM phone doesn’t look like a deal all that bad, does it? Interested parties can get one via Geekbuying who’ve listed it for $184.
Android 4.4 is just too old. Hopefully they’ll provide source for kernel and a newer android version will come out as a ROM.
I want 5.5 inch, Android 6, 32GB ROM, 3-4GB RAM, A72 cores and 1080p for next phone,
yeah … when i say the same thing … people are like NOOOO!
but in 6months your going to want more and then someone will tell you wait another 6 months and then the cycle will continue for all eternity 🙂
Nope. 1080p is fine. 5.5″ is fine. 32GB is fine. A72 with new GPU and 4GB RAM will be top specs for a couple years.
You’re not going to find a $200 A72 phone in 6 months. You will be lucky to find one for $300.
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro has a Snapdragon 650 processor with A72 cores. It is $151 for the 16GB model. You are quite evidently very, very wrong.
You are correct I forgot all about the 650.
MediaTek must have plans to make something for midrange phones to counter it. They surely can’t have the X20 as their only A72 SoC for this year.
They have the X30 coming out later this year.
That’s not going to make it into $150-200 or even $250 phones though. They will lose all the midrange to Snapdragon now.
Not really, the X20 will probably be like the X10 and be featured in a variety of phones from $200-300 and once the X30 does come out the X20 will be in $150 phones. But the P10 for now is their midrange SoC and manufacturers are already lining up to use the P10 in their $150 phones.
Besides the Android 6 and the A72 cores this one has all you asked. But keep in mind d to wait for a while as this SoCs won’t come cheap before 6-8 months from now.