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Re:Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and... by scarface74 on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:12PM (#32787385)
For reference: those were the specs of the 2015 iPhone 6S/iPhone 6S Plus
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Re:Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and... by MBCook on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:35PM (#32787542)
It was also the spec of the iPhone 8, which gets iOS 16 this year and is thus considered fully supported.

Seems reasonable on Google’s part to me.

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Re:Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and... by gpt5 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:50AM (#32788450)
Except that this article is about Android Go, which is a stripped down version of Android (with special, stripped down Google apps as well). iOS 16 on iPhone 8 would be the full experience (and would run much more smoothly than those 2GB Android Go phones).
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Re:Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and... by Dylan16807 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @12:45AM (#32787860)
Also for reference: They used to make Android phones with 512MB of storage and the capabilities at that point were pretty damn similar to today's phones, just with a bad screen.
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Re:Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and... by mccorrinall on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:39PM (#32787569)
A different reference: in 2011 my Xperia Arc S was running happily with 512MB RAM on Android 2.3
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Re:Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and... by scarface74 on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:46PM (#32787609)
The iPhone 4S released in 2011 also had 512MB RAM and got its last security update in 2019
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Re:Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and... by matyasrichter on Saturday September 10, 2022 @03:45AM (#32788708)
And only got updated to iOS 9. Naturally, the minimum requirements for later version were greater than that.
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Re:Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and... by kapitanjakc on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:29PM (#32787491)
in 2015 2gigs ram in a phone was premium I think..

I had a cheap one from Xiaomi and was happy with 2gigs

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