S20+ 4G or 5G?

[Dmeng88]

Hi all,

I'm an Aussie - no decent forums here in Oz so have joined this one.

Looking at upgrading my s7 to a s20+. We have 4G or 5G options here, but unfortunately we're stuck with the inferior Exynos SoC. I live rural so 5G isn't going to be realistically available for a good 3-5 years and I tend to upgrade my phone every 3 years once the battery starts becoming noticeably less efficient. However the 5G model does come with 12GB RAM rather than 8GB.

I don't do much gaming apart from Pokemon Go, so phone is mostly used for YouTube, web surfing, emails, phone calls, etc. Am i bettee off saving the $150 and going 4G only? $150 gets me a good phone case, better screen protector, etc. I'm guessing I'm not going to notice much difference running Pokemon Go with 8GB RAM and not 12?

Most people enjoying their s20+?

Cheers!

 

[mustang7757]

Hi , welcome to AC!
I think you would be fine with 4G and 8gb ram until your next phone which be 3 years like you mentioned .

 

[Dmeng88]

Hi , welcome to AC!
I think you would be fine with 4G and 8gb ram until your next phone which be 3 years like you mentioned .

Thanks, my thinking is that by the time 5G is available here, the phone technology will be a good 3 or 4 generations deep into 5G and will probably be better optimised for 5G by that stage

 

[mustang7757]

Thanks, my thinking is that by the time 5G is available here, the phone technology will be a good 3 or 4 generations deep into 5G and will probably be better optimised for 5G by that stage

Yeah , definitely agree.
Your welcome!

 

[msm0511]

Don't have much to add. @mustang7757 covered it. Just wanted to say welcome to AC!

 

[big samm]

Hi all,

I'm an Aussie - no decent forums here in Oz so have joined this one.

Looking at upgrading my s7 to a s20+. We have 4G or 5G options here, but unfortunately we're stuck with the inferior Exynos SoC. I live rural so 5G isn't going to be realistically available for a good 3-5 years and I tend to upgrade my phone every 3 years once the battery starts becoming noticeably less efficient. However the 5G model does come with 12GB RAM rather than 8GB.

I don't do much gaming apart from Pokemon Go, so phone is mostly used for YouTube, web surfing, emails, phone calls, etc. Am i bettee off saving the $150 and going 4G only? $150 gets me a good phone case, better screen protector, etc. I'm guessing I'm not going to notice much difference running Pokemon Go with 8GB RAM and not 12?

Most people enjoying their s20+?

Cheers!

I thought all S20 models came with 12gb of ram...
Except for the Ultra 512Gb which have 16gb ram

 

[Dmeng88]

I thought all S20 models came with 12gb of ram...
Except for the Ultra 512Gb which have 16gb ram

Not here in Australia. Only 5G versions of s20 and s20+ get 12GB RAM, the 4G only models get 8GB. In US there's no option for 4G only, at least not with s20+ which is only sold with 5G and hence the 12GB

 

[big samm]

Not here in Australia. Only 5G versions of s20 and s20+ get 12GB RAM, the 4G only models get 8GB. In US there's no option for 4G only, at least not with s20+ which is only sold with 5G and hence the 12GB

Ah i see... that sucks :/

 

[Mooncatt]

Hi , welcome to AC!
I think you would be fine with 4G and 8gb ram until your next phone which be 3 years like you mentioned .

Agreed, and not just on the spectrum side of things. The Average user wouldn't even come close to using 12 GB of RAM, so that's a waste of money right now. I'm an above average user with 8 GB of memory on my phone, and I only fill about half that. What makes this more notable is Android is designed to keep memory full to run more efficiently. So even with all the games I play and other use, I'm not able to give it 8GB worth of apps to keep in memory.

If you were into something that was a memory hog, then the 12 GB may be worth it. I know photo and video editing on a PC can use a ton of RAM, but I doubt even the Android counterparts of those apps would make use of all that any time soon.

 

[chanchan05]

Hi all,

I'm an Aussie - no decent forums here in Oz so have joined this one.

Looking at upgrading my s7 to a s20+. We have 4G or 5G options here, but unfortunately we're stuck with the inferior Exynos SoC. I live rural so 5G isn't going to be realistically available for a good 3-5 years and I tend to upgrade my phone every 3 years once the battery starts becoming noticeably less efficient. However the 5G model does come with 12GB RAM rather than 8GB.

I don't do much gaming apart from Pokemon Go, so phone is mostly used for YouTube, web surfing, emails, phone calls, etc. Am i bettee off saving the $150 and going 4G only? $150 gets me a good phone case, better screen protector, etc. I'm guessing I'm not going to notice much difference running Pokemon Go with 8GB RAM and not 12?

Most people enjoying their s20+?

Cheers!

IMO you shouldn't worry about the RAM at those sizes of 8GB and above. At that point its just bragging.

 

[j_hansen]

By your usage description you would probably be just fine with even 4gb Ram, don't forget that 8gb is already huge and 12gb is sales talk and overkill in 95% of cases