Mobile phone trivia: Why do most people only choose 8GB memory phones? There are two main reasons

First of all, it’s time for science. The 6G or 8G we mentioned in the article is not the space we understand for mobile phones to store downloaded movies and TV series. The scientific name for 6G memory is called mobile phone running memory, abbreviated as RAM in English, which refers to the memory used by mobile phones to run programs. The storage space that comes with the mobile phone is called storage space, abbreviated as ROM in English, which is the 128G and 256G that we usually see. In layman's terms, running memory is equivalent to lanes on a highway. Lanes are software running in the background. The larger the number, the more lanes there are, and the more software can be run at the same time. Storage memory is similar to the total capacity of a highway, which is related to how much data a mobile phone can store.

1. The goal of launching 12GB memory is to make money and increase users' budget for purchasing machines

There is no gain without profit. Why do merchants often guide you to buy 12GB memory phones by saying that mobile phone apps take up a lot of memory and 8GB phones are prone to lag when selling you mobile phones? Because there is a price difference. A 12GB memory phone is at least 300-500 yuan more expensive than an 8GB memory phone, and at most thousands of yuan more expensive. Moreover, they will deliberately confuse the concepts, mixing up the space for storing TV series and movies with the running memory, to fool those mobile phone novices. But in fact, if you usually just read the news, watch Douyin and listen to music on your phone, 8G is definitely enough. Even if you occasionally play King of Glory or Genshin Impact, there is no big pressure.

2. 6GB RAM is so slow after one year that you doubt your life

Currently, the phones equipped with 6GB of memory are mainly low-end and mid-range phones. These phones are indeed very smooth when they are first received, but after a long time, you will find that the phone is getting slower and slower. The reason is that the Android system currently uses a multi-threaded processing mode, which means that as long as the application you opened before is not completely closed, it will continue to occupy memory in the background. The more applications you open, the slower it will be. And even if you close it completely, some application information will remain in the memory, affecting the normal operation of the phone's running memory. The running memory capacity determines the mobile phone's user experience. The larger the running memory, the more apps can be run simultaneously in the background of the phone. In this case, if the mobile phone's running memory is not large enough, then the running memory will be instantly filled up when the phone runs multiple apps, which greatly affects the user experience.

Therefore, the design life of a thousand-yuan phone is generally one year or one and a half years, but the manufacturer will certainly not make it public. Instead, they will guide you to change your phone on the grounds of product upgrade. Anyway, a thousand-yuan phone will not be very expensive. The key is that the phone is indeed slow and affects your daily use.

In addition, with the rapid development of 5G, the data occupied by mobile applications will become larger and larger, and the capacity of mobile phone apps will only become larger and larger in the future. If you have a mobile phone with 6GB of RAM, it may start to lag after half a year. At that time, you may have to buy a new phone again, which is really not worth the loss.