For example, the 1TB version of iPhone15ProMax is expensive, as high as 13,000 yuan, but iPhone15ProMax is very silky and pleasing to the eye.
Small memory mobile phones are cheap and stuck to use, which makes people very helpless. However, the price of small memory mobile phones is cheap, such as the 4+64GB version of Redmi 12C, its price is only 599 yuan, less than 1/20 of iPhone15ProMax.
So the question is, it's 2024 now, is it a big memory phone to buy a mobile phone, or a small memory phone?
First, what is running memory and fuselage storage
In layman's terms, mobile phone memory includes running memory and storage memory. Among them, the temporary storage of data generated during the operation of the memory mobile phone and the APP is low. The larger the running memory, the smoother the phone will be when running the APP, and the lower the probability of the phone being stuck.
The storage memory is the "warehouse" of the mobile phone, storing the data of the mobile phone. These data include junk data, cache data, installation packages, downloaded music, movies, pictures, etc. generated during the use of the mobile phone.
In short, running memory is like the "wheel" of the phone, the more wheels there are, the faster the phone will run. The storage memory of the fuselage is like the runway of the mobile phone, the wider the runway, the faster the mobile phone will run.
It can be seen that the larger the running memory and the larger the body memory, the better the user experience. In this way, it seems that spending more money to buy a mobile phone with large memory becomes a matter of course.
Second, for the average person, the 256GB body is enough, and the 512GB and 1TB have some excess performance
8 years ago, 128GB of body storage was the flagship version of the flagship machine, but 8 years later, 128GB has become the standard version of the thousand-yuan machine.
Obviously, with the increase in the amount of app data and the improvement of cached data, 128GB has been difficult to meet the needs of users. At this time, 256GB has become the base version of many mobile phone storage.
Including the Huawei mate60 series, Xiaomi 14 series, and the standard version of the Honor GT series, the body storage is 256GB. It can be seen that it should be a wiser choice to buy a mobile phone with a body storage of 256GB.
Of course, if you're a heavy mobile phone user or like to play games, it's not impossible to buy the 512GB storage version. It's just that the price difference between the 256GB version and the 512GB version is quite large, and the price difference ranges from 1000 yuan to 2000 yuan, such as the 256GB and 512GB of Huawei mate60 series and iPhone15 series are more than 1000 yuan.
As for the 1TB body storage memory, it seems a bit of a tyrant, if you don't have professional needs, I don't recommend you to buy the 1TB version.
Of course, there is also a relatively big controversy about fuselage storage, that is, most mobile phones support fuselage storage expansion, so fuselage storage memory seems a bit foolish, which is also the reason why many users who have used memory expansion are reluctant to buy large fuselage storage.
Third, the current standard memory of mobile phones is 8GB, and 16GB and 24GB memory have gradually entered people's field of vision
I think running memory is more important than body storage memory. The reason is that the running memory is the place where the APP stores data during the running process, and it is always key to the APP, which determines whether the APP runs smoothly or not.
So how big is the best choice of running memory? Here we take Android phones as an example. Due to the phenomenon of "fake background" in Android mobile phones, when the user runs a new APP, the previous APP still occupies the running memory space, which leads to insufficient running memory space of the mobile phone.
Once the mobile phone runs out of memory space, the mobile phone will be stuck, which will affect the user's experience. So how do we prevent this from happening? At this time, we need to increase the running memory size of the phone.
Seeing this, everyone has a general understanding of 8GB, 12GB, 16GB, and 24GB running memory.
Fourth, summary
How to choose the memory when buying a mobile phone? People who know mobile phones buy it like this. If you are not a heavy game lover and do not rely heavily on your mobile phone, then it is recommended that you choose 256GB. Of course, if you're on a budget, you can also buy the 512GB and 1TB variants.
If your phone is an Android phone, and you like to open the background frequently, and the number of open backgrounds exceeds 30, then it is recommended that you buy more than 16GB of running memory. For the average user, it is rare to open 30 backgrounds in a row and not clean the background, so theoretically 16GB can meet the needs of most users.
As for 24GB, it's just the icing on the cake, and if the phone manufacturer is doing activities or has enough budget, users can buy 24GB.