Last week we were a little surprised by the strangeness in the memory management of the 6GB of RAM that the OnePlus 3 has. One of its most striking features and that identifies you to others phones, as are most high-end phones that have 4GB as the standard. This lack of performance of the OnePlus 3 RAM is due to the fact that it is covered by the software, not because the hardware is defective, and now we know the reason for this, or at least the excuse that the company has made.
If we go to the Twitter account of Carl Pei, co-founder of OnePlus, in it he explains that the decision not to use all the RAM memory is due to offer a better user experience, mainly for the smartphone do not consume battery excessively. This controversy came from a video that tested the speed in performance between the OnePlus 3 and the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge.
The two devices have their differences in hardware, albeit an on-chip similarity to the Snapdragon 820. The Galaxy S7 edge has only 4 GB of RAM and a screen with QuadHD resolution. Instead, the OnePlus 3 is characterized by its 6 GB of RAM and a screen with a lower Full HD resolution. Which means that, with more space for memory and fewer pixels, the OnePlus 3 should have beaten the Samsung terminal.
The reality was different to find a Galaxy S7 edge that performs perfectly, while the OnePlus 3 was seen to try to get closer to the S7 edge score. The final decision for the OnePlus 3 memory management to reduce its performance is a matter of design to promote battery life life. Which means that this terminal does not allow to have so many processes in the background so that the battery is not drunk.
Pei has stated that the company has released the files necessary to create custom ROMs that can take advantage of the 6GB of RAM. I wonder if they had put a memory of 4GB of RAM so much trouble would not have been mounted and they could even have reduced the price of the terminal ...
They are already announcing 6 and 8GB terminals. Basically it is a question of marketing and of seeing who has more and giving the user the false impression of having a much more capable terminal. It reminds me of the Megapixel war, until someone stopped and said, up to here, and let's improve the quality of the rest of the components.
Well, it is cheaper to add 2GB that are useless and in the comparison table to win ...
The truth is that it is difficult to stand out from so many smartphones and they have to look for ideas to differentiate themselves from the competition. Anyway, it's okay to release the files to use the 6GB of RAM, but let's see where the battery life is ...