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The Current Hardware Specifications For Purism's Librem 5 Phone
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Answer to the myth that Android uses more memory than IOS:
Android flagship devices tend to have more memory than their iPhone equivalents. Why is that? Is it because Android uses more RAM than iOS? Gary explains! Re...
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Originally posted by andre30correia View PostCanonical fails, jolla fails, firefox mobile fails, this one with this prices (120 euros phones with the same)and nothing to show it will fail too
And you can't just look at hardware, one big reason many people buy apple over android is just stupid update support. Especially this 120 dollar phones get maybe 1 year support, after 3 years you can flush it down the toilet because it became unusable and extremely unsafe.
Look at the fair-phone 1 as example a phone that was designed to have a long live it never got a upgrade to Android 5.0.
So you always pay more money for support even in the normal android sphere. I wonder if Mediatek not soon starts to put the software on a rom because products based on it are by design not up-gradable.
So if you can use that phone because nothing else than more updates 2 extra years the price is halved per year (assuming 4 instead of 2 years). So you can't just compare hardware vs hardware if you ignore upgradability.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostI'm still not sure Android needs more than 2GB either. Has anyone actually checked the RAM usage of their apps?Last edited by Vistaus; 29 January 2019, 01:21 PM.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostI'm still not sure Android needs more than 2GB either. Has anyone actually checked the RAM usage of their apps?
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Canonical fails, jolla fails, firefox mobile fails, this one with this prices (120 euros phones with the same)and nothing to show it will fail too
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Originally posted by ldesnogu View PostBut your comment about price it utterly ridiculous. This HW is obviously underpowered for its price, that doesn't mean it should cost zero.
For the record, the high price is because they aren't making large numbers of them, mostly because they don't have millions on hand.
And your comment about USB also is ridiculous: whatever goes through the modem could go to anybody. That's a privacy concern. You will have to use encryption for all voice/data going through the modem, which makes the phone part of this HW limited.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostI use firefox and I NEVER run out of memory. How about that, silly Chrome user?
And yes, I'm just kidding (about chrome and memory usage).
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Originally posted by nomadewolf View Post
You are paying for privacy, not (hardware) specs.
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Originally posted by caligula View Post
Did you know the latest $529 iPad 2018 128GB cellular+wifi has 2 GB of RAM?
They say the reason it's sufficient is because iPad runs native high performance ObjC / C++ / Swift apps whereas Androids run interpreted garbage collected (twice the memory reqs) JS and Java apps.
Citation: https://developer.apple.com/library/...71/_index.html
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