When it comes to mobile gaming, there's a simple fact that undercuts lots of the marketing fluff around gaming phones.
Mobile phones aren't like consoles; there aren't just two or three versions that all gamers have. There are hundreds of different types of mobile phone, and to ensure that all mobile owners can play games together, most titles are optimized to play on all devices.
You don't need a super-powerful mobile to play PUBG, or Call of Duty, or Fortnite, or Genshin Impact. Any fairly modern device can do so, though maybe not at the top graphical options.
That's one curious, but appreciated, difference that mobiles have with PCs - lots of PC developers are happy to just shrug their shoulders and say 'well, some gamers can't play our game', locking out users who don't have top-end specs.
Perhaps because they're designed as portable and readily accessible, or perhaps because mobile developers are trying hard to compete for your attention, any old phone can play all the most popular games.
With that in mind, 18GB of RAM is just completely unnecessary. I'd go so far to say that you don't really need more than 8GB, and some won't even need that.
So why do phone companies, especially Nubia, push so hard into additional RAM like this? Well, it's hard to know for sure, but there's one reason that I can think of: I wouldn't be writing this article if the phone had a normal amount of memory.
What? I do not game, at all, and 64GB is often not enough with my multiple browsers, and documents.
Here is another article from Samsung Business Solutions bragging about their powerful phones.
Your phone is now more powerful than your PC
https://insights.samsung.com/2021/08/19/your-phone-is-now-more-powerful-than-your-pc-3/
I guess you could call it spec flexing. There are some dive watches that are rated to depths no diver would ever reach but hey the watch can!
I’m very impressed with my iPhone 15 Pro Max so far.
How many gigabytes does one need to play Candy Crush?.................
The last time I had an android phone is had 18 billion pre-installed and completely unnecessary apps. There are a lot of apps that you couldn’t remove unless you jailbroke it.
Bloatware needs processing power and memory
Why are cell phones more reliable than laptops?
My cell phone just works. My laptop sometimes doesn’t load properly, sometimes gets the blue screen of death or a black or white screen necessitating a hard shut down, sometimes makes me wait while it updates. They are both about the same age.
I don’t have problems with the cell phone except that the screen is too small for much of what I want to do and it doesn’t have a convenient keyboard or mouse.
it’s not a phone, it’s a commuter wi a phone app...
I would much rather have a nice flip phone, or maybe a punkt phone if they were a bit cheaper.
I was forced to give up my flip when my carier made 2g unreliable, but for a while I was ok with a nice nokia windows phone, but then that was made obsolete as well.
I am working on a nice computer right now with 3tb of ram, 384 cores and 4 mi210 “gpu cards”
I can even play Doom on it.
but most of the time when I ask it to do stuff it says:
“I’m sorry Al I’m afraid I cannot do that”
My Samsung/Trax phone is also, a senior citizen, and I use it in my car when I need to check with the real boss, my wife.
She has a newer Samsung and she uses it with our Comcast package. As it is very fast and efficient for her needs. It operates very fast re sending or receiving. She has an Acer small tablet for her heavy duty stuff.
She prefers her phone for most of her so called use.
One of our sons has the Apple 7 and never uses any computer.
His wife has a later Apple phone and prefers her home Apple computer with her home run business.
99% of my computer needs are met with my Acer Chromebook 317. I use my former Comcast business with it like my wife does with her mini Acer.
A DIL always has the latest Apple phone and their computer for her small business and personal use. She is addicted to Facebook and other online garbage sites. Her phones are handed down to their adult kids.
Well in the world of gaming PCs your base RAM isn’t nearly important as the RAM on your GPU. I doubt there’s enough room in a phone for all that. So sure the phone’s RAM might be more than the PC’s, but is it more than the PC’s + the GPU’s? Probably not, since the CW there is 8GB VRAM is too little.
ZTE Nubia company, part owned by the CCP
I want a phone that doesn’t spy on me.
After a long hiatus from gaming PCs I decided I wanted back in last year.
I custom configed a machine from ibuypower.com with an i9, 32GB RAM, 1 TB SSD drive and a 5 GB Data Drive, a NVidia 3080...yeah, I went a little nuts...
The thing is...I wanted a machine that just works. I had gotten spoiled by my years of Mac. I gotta say that while Windows 11 does have it’s issues, it is stable. And my machine is fast. Nothing I throw at it even makes it hiccup.
By contrast, I have a Windows box at work that is an I5 with 16GB RAM, a 1 TB SSD Drive and a 2 GB Data Drive and built in video. It is a snooze fest. Quickbooks brings it to it’s knees.
As for our phones...my son strayed from the Apple plantation and went with a Samsung Galaxy because a friend at work raved about his. At first he wanted to show it off. That lasted about three months. Then the b!tching started. I am now getting updates on how many days he has until he qualifies to trade in his phone for an iPhone. He says the iPhones just work and his Android “doesn’t always”.
Not sure about the excitement about the 16g of RAM.
My phone came with 64gig of ram. I put in a 64gig SD card because I had it and didn’t want to spend the money on more.