Need to boost sales

[csiguy1]

IMHO, if some of these phone companies want to boost more sales, add ram, on board memory and larger batteries. These 3 things are what make me desire a particular phone. 64 gigs of on board memory on a flagship phone is way too small. 4 gigs of RAM way too little on Android and these half day batteries are a real bummer. Make the phones slightly thicker then jack it up and put a car battery in it. Just saying.

 

[Almeuit]

IMHO, if some of these phone companies want to boost more sales, add ram, on board memory and larger batteries. These 3 things are what make me desire a particular phone. 64 gigs of on board memory on a flagship phone is way too small. 4 gigs of RAM way too little on Android and these half day batteries are a real bummer. Make the phones slightly thicker then jack it up and put a car battery in it. Just saying.

I never had an issue with RAM. I never understood people's obsession with more RAM.. Do people have random issues I seem to somehow dodge with all my Android phones or are they just being all about that spec hype?

 

[tadpoles]

I never had an issue with RAM. I never understood people's obsession with more RAM.. Do people have random issues I seem to somehow dodge with all my Android phones or are they just being all about that spec hype?

I think it's just learned thinking from PCs...more RAM is better. To be fair my Note 8 and S9+ with 6GB stay way smoother than my S7 could ever dream of being but my Mate 9 with 4GB of RAM slays the optimized S7 with 3GB RAM as well. They're all set up essentially the same too. Perhaps the RAM contributes to the S7's beatdown, perhaps it's just the SOC.

 

[Almeuit]

I think it's just learned thinking from PCs...more RAM is better. To be fair my Note 8 and S9+ with 6GB stay way smoother than my S7 could ever dream of being but my Mate 9 with 4GB of RAM slays the optimized S7 with 3GB RAM as well. They're all set up essentially the same too. Perhaps the RAM contributes to the S7's beatdown, perhaps it's just the SOC.

Lag isn't just from RAM. It has to do with SOC, RAM, Software, etc. -- One factor doesn't just make it work well. Such as the Note 8 having 2 GB more of RAM doesn't make it work well for that singular reason alone.

Hence why phones that mid range can perform amazingly well with low RAM / older SOCs... because most of them don't have crap tons of software sitting on them or possibly not being as optimized as they could be.

 

[Mr Segundus]

Or you could be like Apple and put a new paint job on a seven month old device, hype the hell out of it, and get people talking about it even though the device is functionally the same as it was seven months ago.

 

[Morty2264]

Beefier batteries would also entice me; but the new trend with phones now is "bigger screen, thinner body" - which is unfortunate because I'd take more heft for a larger battery any day.

Perhaps in a few years' time we'll see shift to a new socially desired form factor.

 

[DDRC]

Beefier batteries would also entice me; but the new trend with phones now is "bigger screen, thinner body" - which is unfortunate because I'd take more heft for a larger battery any day.

Perhaps in a few years' time we'll see shift to a new socially desired form factor.

I agree. There was a trend to make cell phones as small as possible. Now it's all about bigger screens. No telling what demand will steer phones towards in a few years. Whatever direction design goes, I'm just hoping it's a positive improvement in usability.

 

[Morty2264]

I agree. There was a trend to make cell phones as small as possible. Now it's all about bigger screens. No telling what demand will steer phones towards in a few years. Whatever direction design goes, I'm just hoping it's a positive improvement in usability.

Exactly. We've reversed that "small phones" phase and now we're getting phones way over six inches. I'm wondering what will happen over the next few years. To be honest, 2018 phones (so far) haven't wowed me yet; so I'm hoping we'll see more innovative/"intelligent" designs.

 

[Keeptechcoolandsimple]

Or you could be like Apple and put a new paint job on a seven month old device, hype the hell out of it, and get people talking about it even though the device is functionally the same as it was seven months ago.

lmao