Comment on I hate Android!
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago4Gb ram is enough for a glorified Lemmy/PornHub device. I use a Redmi 4x with 4Gb and a snapdragon 435. It’s fast enough for modern mobile games (well barely). The only problem is the modern internet with too-much scripts to actually be performant on low-end devices.
Android is mostly problematic if it’s a stock operating system, filled with corporate spyware, which makes the device run terribly.
My Redmi was practically useless before installing Lineage OS. Now it’s good enough for most things I do.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Not anymore. Phones running Android 15 can get a full version of android rather than the Go variant but Android 16 and above require 6 GB of RAM or you’ll have to use the Go variant.
At the end of the day the entire OS has gotten bloated with features and apps have gotten larger and more resource hungry.
On my device I have 5.2GB of RAM currently allocated to “System”, and 2.9GB allocated to apps.
m.gsmarena.com/here_are_googles_new_minimum_ram_a…