Recently, we have seen the first Android smartphone ever with gigantic 8GB RAM from LeEco Le 2 Pro. However, the question being ask is that: Do we really need 8GB RAM for our Android smartphones?

8GB RAM smartphones: necessary or a waste of money?

Before going deeper into the question, let’s take a look at how your smartphone uses up the RAM. We have searched over the tech forum, then added in our personal experience, then simplified it into this explanation. So this is how Android handles your phone memory: after each activity finished (when you pressed the home button), your phone doesn’t stop the app immediately. Instead, the process is kept under the system (aka cache) until your phone needs to free up more memory to run another app.

Moreover, Android does even categorize each process into 4 different types ((Foreground, Visible, Service, Background, and Empty) ranging from most to least important. And depending on the level of importance, each process is killed off at different level of free memory. That being said, the more free RAM your smartphone has left, the faster the machine runs, and the better multitasking you can perform. However, which app is put as more priority, which cache to be deleted first really varies from companies to companies. That explains why 2 phones with the same RAM capacity don’t necessarily perform as smooth as the other.

Currently in our mobile market, smartphones with 4GB RAM are considered the most popular. This is because they are strong enough to run powerfully, yet will not cost you a fortune to buy one. However, having a 6GB RAM or 8GB RAM smartphone does you no harm, besides a heavier price tag, and a bit more of battery consumed to run

8GB RAM smartphone: the game of real geeks

However, talking about the powerful performance, a bigger RAM doesn’t always guarantee everything. It needs to combine with a strong processor and a decent CPU in order to offer a smooth machine in general. If you are a fan of high technology and heavy games, or simply prefer being the pioneer of a new trend, then trying out a bigger RAM smartphone is definitely your thing.