Re:Cheap smartphones are about to change everything
by DiabloD3 on Sunday May 18, 2014 @01:02PM
(#7763553)
IMNSHO, 128 and 256 just was never relevant for a smartphone, especially one that ran early Android. My original generation Kindle Fire tablet (came with a hacked up Amazon'd version of 2.3, I swapped out for CM, currently running Android 4.4) has 512mb of memory and was horridly slow with stock Amazon ROM. No cell phone radio, no microphone, no camera, decent for the time GPU, still slow.
It gets a little bit faster with every new version of Android that comes out, and with ART enabled it is noticeably faster in some apps. 128 and 256mb devices should just be scrapped, there is simply no reason to keep them around anymore.
So, I stand by what I say, even with low memory mode needing 512mb, it is far better than being stuck with Android 2.3.
It gets a little bit faster with every new version of Android that comes out, and with ART enabled it is noticeably faster in some apps. 128 and 256mb devices should just be scrapped, there is simply no reason to keep them around anymore.
So, I stand by what I say, even with low memory mode needing 512mb, it is far better than being stuck with Android 2.3.