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Yeah the Samsung S20 Ultra barely scored a mention. My 512GB model features 16GB of memory, and a staggeringly beautiful display. Not to mention that camera..

Yeah the Samsung S20 Ultra barely scored a mention. My 512GB model features 16GB of memory, and a staggeringly beautiful display. Not to mention that camera.. But hey, it's Apple, so everyone is going nuts.

hellotomyrars 7y ago
You didn't pay $399 for it. Apples to oranges.
- jermaustin1 7y ago
  Apples to Samsungs
  - sundvor 7y ago
    Exactly. You going to compare a premium Apple device, compare it a premium Android. I believe mine is pretty much the highest end available on *any" platform - it's pretty insane. Apple has a lot of catching up to do.
pythonaut_16 7y ago
Real talk though, what are you doing on your phone that actually uses 16GB of memory?
- sundvor 7y ago
  As a random snapshot, my present memory usage is 9.6GB. Previous phone had 8GB, so this is part of why it's so much faster - although storage as well as CPU is also significantly better. (The regular model had 12GB which would suffice, but 128GB storage was a bit of a joke - I take a lot of pictures, and am familiar with Samsung slow downs unless plenty of free space.) What I use? Slack, multiple email accounts, Discord, life 360, signal, WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, Hangouts, Instagram, .. nothing special, just a lot of different messaging platforms + apps. The extra memory allows them to stay loaded and ready when swapping. I locked myself into a salary sacrificed tax free pre order in February (before realising just how bad C19 would get), so not paying the full sticker price. Also rotated my old S10 5G device to wife and sold her old for good coin. I for one absolutely love the big display in these times of home iso; whether for videos or reading technical books on Kindle. Wife also embraces the nearly as big S10 5G - she wouldn't go back to a smaller phone now.
  - pythonaut_16 7y ago
    That makes sense. The extra RAM is basically just an extra caching layer. I was just curious, because even on my desktop I rarely fill 16gb of RAM for day to day use.
    - sundvor 7y ago
      Yes, I was pleased to see the phone actually use it efficiently for caching. My desktop has 32GB and it does the same thing; a larger size is reserved for caching than on the 16GB work laptop (both Win10). I use Docker a lot which probably "helps" in making use of the memory. :)
Sangeppato 7y ago
16GB of RAM and still it will stop receiving major SW updates within a couple of years. This is where iPhones really shines, even Google is crap in comparison, and I say this as an Android user (never owned an iPhone)

hellotomyrars 7y ago

You didn't pay $399 for it. Apples to oranges.

jermaustin1 7y ago
Apples to Samsungs
- sundvor 7y ago
  Exactly. You going to compare a premium Apple device, compare it a premium Android. I believe mine is pretty much the highest end available on *any" platform - it's pretty insane. Apple has a lot of catching up to do.

pythonaut_16 7y ago

Real talk though, what are you doing on your phone that actually uses 16GB of memory?

sundvor 7y ago
As a random snapshot, my present memory usage is 9.6GB. Previous phone had 8GB, so this is part of why it's so much faster - although storage as well as CPU is also significantly better. (The regular model had 12GB which would suffice, but 128GB storage was a bit of a joke - I take a lot of pictures, and am familiar with Samsung slow downs unless plenty of free space.) What I use? Slack, multiple email accounts, Discord, life 360, signal, WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, Hangouts, Instagram, .. nothing special, just a lot of different messaging platforms + apps. The extra memory allows them to stay loaded and ready when swapping. I locked myself into a salary sacrificed tax free pre order in February (before realising just how bad C19 would get), so not paying the full sticker price. Also rotated my old S10 5G device to wife and sold her old for good coin. I for one absolutely love the big display in these times of home iso; whether for videos or reading technical books on Kindle. Wife also embraces the nearly as big S10 5G - she wouldn't go back to a smaller phone now.
- pythonaut_16 7y ago
  That makes sense. The extra RAM is basically just an extra caching layer. I was just curious, because even on my desktop I rarely fill 16gb of RAM for day to day use.
  - sundvor 7y ago
    Yes, I was pleased to see the phone actually use it efficiently for caching. My desktop has 32GB and it does the same thing; a larger size is reserved for caching than on the 16GB work laptop (both Win10). I use Docker a lot which probably "helps" in making use of the memory. :)

Sangeppato 7y ago

16GB of RAM and still it will stop receiving major SW updates within a couple of years. This is where iPhones really shines, even Google is crap in comparison, and I say this as an Android user (never owned an iPhone)