OnePlus 3T = 8GB RAM?


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We learnt yesterday, courtesy OnePlus, that the OnePlus 3T will launch on the 15th of this month. What we know so far is that it’ll pretty much be the same awesome OnePlus 3 but with a Snapdragon 821 processor instead of the 820.

However, there’s more to it, apparently…

Will the OnePlus 3T have not 6GB, but 8GB of RAM?

Gizmodo reports that there’s a likelihood of the OnePlus 3 being the first phone on the market to have not 6GB, but 8GB of RAM!

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Quite insane, to be honest. While it was nice and all to be spoilt with a lot of RAM on the OnePlus 3, 8GB certainly seems like an overkill. And it’s not like OnePlus phones have a 2-3 year lifecycle; they’ve been refreshing their flagship lineup each year.

So what does this mean? As far as we’re concerned, it could be one of those rumours those end as rumours. 8GB of RAM might give OnePlus some more footage in the media, but at the cost of a more expensive product with some resources that users might not even need.

Besides RAM, there’s another aspect of the phone that might see an upgrade — battery. OnePlus might just beef up the cell to a 3500-4000mAh capacity, and unlike 8GB of RAM, I’m pretty sure no one’s going to complain about this.

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24 Comments

  1. MitsosDaBest
    November 10, 2016

    No one needs more than 4GB RAM…

    • Raky_b
      November 10, 2016

      …at least not now, this or in next year.

    • Stef
      November 10, 2016

      There goes again this word “need”. Nobody needs anything.

      Will your phone be faster if it has more than 4GB of RAM? Evidently yes!
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwLj_el7-_w

      So it matters if you want a phone that does not reload your apps every now and then (I.E. a *fast* phone).

      If you don’t mind a slower phone 4GB is just fine too.
      But keep in mind that it is a bare minimum at this point in time.

      With OOM values needing minimum 300 MB free for modern apps.
      With modern GPUS often using as much as 500 MB of RAM And with modern Android OS using at least 1.5GB of RAM at boot, just loading a few apps (anywhere between 100-400 MB) you would fill your 4GB pretty quickly…

      • MitsosDaBest
        November 10, 2016

        It’s not only the RAM that makes a phone faster, it’s also the OS. The Samsung phones, even with 32GB RAM, will lag like hell… =)

        • Stef
          November 10, 2016

          Actually S7 Edge was the fastest phone in all C4etech tests up until 6GB phones starting coming along. It *is* the ram. Or to be more precise the Ram management part of which equation *is* (the total) RAM amount.

          Similarly iphones are hyper fast. Not so because of app launch times but mostly because of the excellet ram management of theirs.

          • Wolvie
            November 10, 2016

            Yeah but android is using different approach compare to apple.

            Instead of fixing the ram management to compete with apple, Android increase the ram capacity. That is super lazy oxymoron solution.

            • Stef
              November 10, 2016

              Not necessarily. Hardware especially to Chinese companies (like OnePlus) comes cheaper than software (severe optimization).

              It’s simple economics. Obviously Google can’t do the optimization (too many configurations) but OEMs can. But most OEMs don’t know software (well) so they opt for the next cheapest thing, adding hardware.

              That is how PCs are too and in the long run are benefitted. A $3000 PC beats a $3000 Mac in both capabilities and speed, not because of more optimized software but because the hardware is *that* much better.

              I’m a fan of optimization don’t take me wrong, but as long as Moore’s low (or sth similar) is operative it will always be more viable to do very little of it (optimization I mean) and instead prefer to throw that money for hardware. Optimization is neither free nor “worth it” if you could see what hardware the same amount of money could buy.

              I’m with OEMs in this. The $400 OnePlus 3 manages levels of fluidity that only the $800 iPhone can muster mostly/only because it is/was able to fit more hardware for .., half the cost.

              Tl;dr: People forget how expensive software development is when they recommend “optimization”.

          • benjamin owuye jagun
            November 10, 2016

            iPhones are only “faster” due to how limited iOS is. It’s just one big con by Apple and their overpriced iToy.

            • Stef
              November 10, 2016

              That is one of the reasons (it pauses apps in the background).
              The other is that much better optimization because of the very specific cores it uses. I just wrote a big piece (above you) why Apple’s level optimization is not worth it regardless, at this point in history, anyway…

          • tansuperman
            November 11, 2016

            Then Samsung paid them to say that, because everyone I know with a s7, and s7e always complained about lag

            • Stef
              November 11, 2016

              They alway run with the phones factory reset. Another channel found the same results. S7 is indeed the fastest when the phone is new.

              BTW the exynos version is faster even when checked from another channel
              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=233f0ewFWGk

        • tansuperman
          November 11, 2016

          You are correct. I hated my s6e, and s7e because of the lag. Didn’t know how phones software was supposed to be until my op3 and pixel xl

    • John C.S. Lock
      November 10, 2016

      That was I heard, we don’t need more than 2GB RAM, anyway more should not hurt if the pricing is reasonable enough the way I see it.

      • reggjoo
        November 10, 2016

        I found out, from one phone, to a newer one, with less ram(3>2 GB), that there’s a little difference. Both have marshmallow on them. From a G3, to a honor 5x(G3 had demigod error, so it’s put down for a while til fixed).

    • benjamin owuye jagun
      November 10, 2016

      6GB RAM should be the standard as it helps with resource intensive apps which you can keep at least 4 cpu intensive apps like games in memory with 6GB RAM.

  2. MattD
    November 10, 2016

    They’d better add 2ah on the battery rather than 2gb on the ram…

  3. Omer
    November 10, 2016

    [Sarcasm mode ON]
    Damn, should’ve waited for the 3T. Cuz the 6GB on my 3 just doesn’t cut it.
    [Sarcasm mode OFF]

  4. Raky_b
    November 10, 2016

    If they don’t fix battery, no matter what do they add to this one, it’s not worth of 80$ increment of price.
    One+3 with 80$ lower price would still be better option…

  5. Duri
    November 10, 2016

    S821 can’t handle 8GB memory so i think this is b******t. we should see 8GB after S830 will be mounted next year

  6. LastoftheBrunnen_G
    November 10, 2016

    Indeed everyone is following LeEco and Xiaomi’s example of making 4000mAh batteries standard in flagship phablet phones. My LeEco Le Pro 3 is running awesome, a truly well built device both externally and internally.

  7. Tommi
    November 10, 2016

    SD821 doesn’t support 8GB RAM.

    • benjamin owuye jagun
      November 10, 2016

      Does the SD821 even support 6GB RAM?

  8. blargh
    November 10, 2016

    4000mAh battery, +1

    8GB RAM isn’t supported by SD821, so it goes waste. -1

  9. Jalal Mrz
    November 11, 2016

    8 gb ram, it looks like im going to run adobe after effects and 3dmax on a smartphone. and im sure some morrons will still buy this useless specs