With the appearance of android flagships in 2022, the Galaxy S22 series that debuted as the spring finale naturally attracted much attention, and not long ago, some configurations of the Galaxy S22 Ultra have been exposed, and it is reported that the starting RAM version of the model will drop from 12GB to 8GB. Compared with the previous Samsung flagship model to take the lead in climbing 16GB of RAM, perhaps the RAM of Android phones really can't be rolled up.
The RAM rolled up
At the end of the year, presumably many units have also begun to rise an annual year-end summary tide, in the process of summarizing, the problem of volume naturally exists, the word more must be stronger than the word less, the performance blows fiercely than the face of reality, and the code to do a PPT demonstration must be stronger than writing a Word. The RAM parameters of Android mobile phones, as an indicator that is tied to ROM for many years and sold as product model options, were naturally once rolled up by mobile phone manufacturers.
Android phones once ushered in the explosive growth of RAM, taking Samsung mobile phones as an example, the Standard RAM of the Galaxy S8 International Edition was 4GB, and only a 6GB version was provided specifically for the National Bank of China at that time. To the Galaxy S10 series, 8GB RAM has become the standard, to know that in the Galaxy S9 series, there is still a similar RAM configuration strategy with the S8. In the Galaxy S20 series, 12GB of RAM has become the starting configuration, and the Galaxy S20 Ultra has been added to 16GB of RAM. At the time, even some analysts asserted that it would only be a matter of time before 16GB became widespread. And once ushered in many models equipped with 16GB of RAM, such as Xiaomi Black Shark 4S Pro, Asus ZenFone 8, ZTE Axon 30 Ultra, Oppo Find X3 Pro and so on.
Higher hardware configuration parameters naturally lead to a more intuitive performance impression for consumers. However, in 2021, the RAM parameters of Android phones have shown a situation of not moving. The starting RAM of the Galaxy S21 model dropped to 8GB, and was even jokingly called "reverse upgrade" by netizens at one point. But today, 8GB of RAM seems to have become the most reasonable standard for many brands.
Ram that is generally wasted
According to the conclusion made by the recent foreign media Android Authority after passing the test, for the current Android model, 6GB is the most basic configuration to ensure the experience, 8GB has been able to bring a good multitasking experience, and can cope with some higher performance requirements in the future. 12GB is the key point of the current RAM configuration, which can achieve an overall balance between experience and power. 16GB is not realistic, more of a parametric show-off.
Even considering the current environment of permission abuse in the domestic application market, 8GB of RAM can obviously achieve a good user experience. This may also be one of the reasons why Android phone manufacturers dare to stop rolling on this parameter.
Speaking of this, it is advisable to take a look at Apple's RAM strategy on the iOS platform, which is simply a world away from the inner volume of the Android camp. In today's latest iPhone 13 series, the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini have only 4GB of RAM, and the two models of the iPhone 13 Pro series are 6GB. Such parameters, for the Android platform, are simply insufficient. But the iPhone can bring a smoother and more stable experience.
More interesting is the iPad OS platform, although Apple has 8GB and 16GB of RAM on the 2021 iPad Pro with M1 chip, Apple has limited the use of RAM to 5GB. It wasn't until the release of iPad OS 15 that Apple relaxed this setting to 12GB of RAM. This may also confirm the 12GB key point conclusion drawn by Android Authority.
Speaking of the M1 chip, Apple even changed people's understanding of RAM on the computing platform, through the CPU core and GPU core shared memory resources architecture, for more users, has no longer needed the previous higher RAM capacity. The 8GB configuration is already capable of the previous 16GB tasks, and even brings faster processing speeds. With the overall package, the physical communication distance is shortened, and the ultra-low access memory delay is directly realized, which greatly improves the communication efficiency between chips.
It is not difficult to see that for the use of RAM scheduling and understanding, in fact, there is still a lot of room for improvement for the Android platform, too large RAM obviously has a waste of resources, contrary to the concept pursued by mobile devices, and consumers are required to pay for it.
Behind the android phone's suspension of RAM internal rolling, it may also be related to the signs of price reduction that have emerged. The Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro and OnePlus 10 Pro that have been released have been controlled in terms of cost, and the IP68 function has been castrated, and the configuration parameters are no longer too stacked, but the starting price has been reduced by 300 yuan.
By controlling the ALD RAM, which is already wasteful, it will undoubtedly bring more preferential price space. At the same time, with the improvement of AI computing power in the current mobile platform, it also provides new ideas for how mobile phone manufacturers deal with the task process.
Stopping the inner volume is undoubtedly a good thing, unnecessary waste, harm to others and harm to oneself.