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Hopefully a plateauing of the smartphone market along with China starting to produce memory will start to bring memory prices down.

And then manufacturers will consider adding 8-16GB of memory... and at that point I wonder if more people will just use their phone docked to a monitor as their PC if Apple/Google/Microsoft do a better job facilitating it.




Not sure about that - the Microsoft phones do it really well bit it doesn't seem to have taken off. Only place it has is the Nintendo Switch.


I doubt they will inflate BOM by $100. Excessive RAM also hurts battery life.


RAM and flash are different things. More of the latter won’t hurt battery life very much.


I think parent poster is referring to DRAM. 8-16GB of NAND is low even for budget phones. Desktop-like docking implies the need for 64-bit worthy amounts of DRAM.


Considering that even the iPhone X comes with 3GB of RAM (the 8 only has 2), the other way doesn’t make much sense either.




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