We learnt yesterday, courtesy OnePlus, that the OnePlus 3T will launch on the 15th of this month. What we know so far is that it’ll pretty much be the same awesome OnePlus 3 but with a Snapdragon 821 processor instead of the 820.
However, there’s more to it, apparently…
Will the OnePlus 3T have not 6GB, but 8GB of RAM?
Gizmodo reports that there’s a likelihood of the OnePlus 3 being the first phone on the market to have not 6GB, but 8GB of RAM!
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Quite insane, to be honest. While it was nice and all to be spoilt with a lot of RAM on the OnePlus 3, 8GB certainly seems like an overkill. And it’s not like OnePlus phones have a 2-3 year lifecycle; they’ve been refreshing their flagship lineup each year.
So what does this mean? As far as we’re concerned, it could be one of those rumours those end as rumours. 8GB of RAM might give OnePlus some more footage in the media, but at the cost of a more expensive product with some resources that users might not even need.
Besides RAM, there’s another aspect of the phone that might see an upgrade — battery. OnePlus might just beef up the cell to a 3500-4000mAh capacity, and unlike 8GB of RAM, I’m pretty sure no one’s going to complain about this.
…at least not now, this or in next year.
There goes again this word “need”. Nobody needs anything.
Will your phone be faster if it has more than 4GB of RAM? Evidently yes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwLj_el7-_w
So it matters if you want a phone that does not reload your apps every now and then (I.E. a *fast* phone).
If you don’t mind a slower phone 4GB is just fine too.
But keep in mind that it is a bare minimum at this point in time.
With OOM values needing minimum 300 MB free for modern apps.
With modern GPUS often using as much as 500 MB of RAM And with modern Android OS using at least 1.5GB of RAM at boot, just loading a few apps (anywhere between 100-400 MB) you would fill your 4GB pretty quickly…
It’s not only the RAM that makes a phone faster, it’s also the OS. The Samsung phones, even with 32GB RAM, will lag like hell… =)
Actually S7 Edge was the fastest phone in all C4etech tests up until 6GB phones starting coming along. It *is* the ram. Or to be more precise the Ram management part of which equation *is* (the total) RAM amount.
Similarly iphones are hyper fast. Not so because of app launch times but mostly because of the excellet ram management of theirs.
Yeah but android is using different approach compare to apple.
Instead of fixing the ram management to compete with apple, Android increase the ram capacity. That is super lazy oxymoron solution.
Not necessarily. Hardware especially to Chinese companies (like OnePlus) comes cheaper than software (severe optimization).
It’s simple economics. Obviously Google can’t do the optimization (too many configurations) but OEMs can. But most OEMs don’t know software (well) so they opt for the next cheapest thing, adding hardware.
That is how PCs are too and in the long run are benefitted. A $3000 PC beats a $3000 Mac in both capabilities and speed, not because of more optimized software but because the hardware is *that* much better.
I’m a fan of optimization don’t take me wrong, but as long as Moore’s low (or sth similar) is operative it will always be more viable to do very little of it (optimization I mean) and instead prefer to throw that money for hardware. Optimization is neither free nor “worth it” if you could see what hardware the same amount of money could buy.
I’m with OEMs in this. The $400 OnePlus 3 manages levels of fluidity that only the $800 iPhone can muster mostly/only because it is/was able to fit more hardware for .., half the cost.
Tl;dr: People forget how expensive software development is when they recommend “optimization”.
iPhones are only “faster” due to how limited iOS is. It’s just one big con by Apple and their overpriced iToy.
That is one of the reasons (it pauses apps in the background).
The other is that much better optimization because of the very specific cores it uses. I just wrote a big piece (above you) why Apple’s level optimization is not worth it regardless, at this point in history, anyway…
Then Samsung paid them to say that, because everyone I know with a s7, and s7e always complained about lag
They alway run with the phones factory reset. Another channel found the same results. S7 is indeed the fastest when the phone is new.
BTW the exynos version is faster even when checked from another channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=233f0ewFWGk
You are correct. I hated my s6e, and s7e because of the lag. Didn’t know how phones software was supposed to be until my op3 and pixel xl
That was I heard, we don’t need more than 2GB RAM, anyway more should not hurt if the pricing is reasonable enough the way I see it.
I found out, from one phone, to a newer one, with less ram(3>2 GB), that there’s a little difference. Both have marshmallow on them. From a G3, to a honor 5x(G3 had demigod error, so it’s put down for a while til fixed).
6GB RAM should be the standard as it helps with resource intensive apps which you can keep at least 4 cpu intensive apps like games in memory with 6GB RAM.