Leaks point to Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra with mammoth 108MP camera and ... what? 16GB of RAM There's just a few short weeks until the Samsung Unpacked launch event, where the South Korean giant will unveil this year's ultra-pricey flagships. Predictably, most of the pertinent details have already dripped out. The latest pertains to the potent Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra*, which packs some unbelievably meaty specs. The …
"If it supports 4K DisplayPort over USB so I can use it as a proper desktop, that 16 GB of memory might come in handy when I have several dozen tabs open in Chrome while in full screen."
I do pretty much that on my Tab S5e with Dex and IIRC that only has 6Gb (Monitor is good but not quite 4K)
It's a marketing ploy. Even if the laws of the physical universe would allow that many pixels on a tiny little sensor, the optics will not resolve that level of detail. To take advantage of a 50-60mp full frame (35mm) sensor, it takes a lens with a whopping great price tag. DXOmark is a good place to look for details on that sort of thing. A serious photographer isn't going to show up on a job with their cell phone and live to book that customer again.
If you need a good camera, the last place you would shop is at the phone store. An adequate camera on your phone is a good enough tool.
We'd got over the stupid mega-pixel arms race with digital cameras...
I guess the buyers of these are to young to realise how pointless it was.
Now I'm off to listen to my super-cd on my 64bit 500x oversampling hifi that has a 10,000 watt PMPO amp connected to some Amstrad speakers.
"Don't forget your gold interconnect cables, that make digital signals sound so much smoother. "
Anyone who knows anything about audio cables, knows one uses gold connectors and not gold conductors...there's plenty of better signal carrying conductors one can use, most based on silver.
If you want digital cables to sound better, you need to specify properly shielded cables to keep out all the RFI, 4G, 5G, Freeview and other digital gunk floating around in the ether.
Only in suppository form.
http://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=46#2005-06-22
The more the computational device can utilize, the better & faster it will run.
Between multiple open tabs, streaming music/video, an email client, & processing all those megapixels, you'll want as much as you can afford to have installed. This goes for desktops, laptops, & your SmartPhone.
You can have ludicrous amounts installed, like 1Tb in a SmartWatch, but that's merely silly/overkill.
Or is 640Kb still enough for you? ;-)p
Developers will start to think it is 'normal' and write even sloppier code. It's the same as having a bigger work bench, you just fill it up with more junk - unless you are well disciplined.
This is not aimed at those developers who still believe in and strive to make lean, compact apps which manage and use resources efficiently.
Maybe you just gave hints to secret plan at Samsung:
1. Have developers assume plenty-full RAM is available on phones
2. People start complaining other phone vendors are too slow
Either 3A More Samsung phones sold
Or 3B Phone vendor buy lots of (Samsung) RAM
In both cases: 3. Win!
;-)
> it is when you get what should be a really small simple app that takes GBs when it should be KBs.
It amazes me that you need a gigabyte of ram to do pretty much anything, when 30 years ago, the Mac classic had one thousandth that much (1MB - yes I had to look that up), and about a thousand the processor speed too (1 core 8MHz v. 4-core 2 GHz). Of course, MacOS at the time did almost no multitasking (user level at least), was BW, etc. Still.
Obviously, you should take this with a grain of salt. Phone rumours are occasionally wrong — although, thanks to notoriously leaky supply chains and regulatory filings, the leaks are increasingly accurate.
As long as it isn't the 5,000 mah battery that leaks (and subsequently ignites) then I suppose we can all be happy.
108 mpix behind a crap lens may be excessive but how dare you complain about having too much RAM!
PhotoMate R3 (camera RAW file editor), OsmAnd+ (offline maps), PDFs of technical documents, and probably lots of games would perform better. The only catch will be deactivating 10GB of new Samsung shovelware and spyware.
Sammy phones already have a vast amount of mostly useless bloat on them, so they need more RAM to cope with the increasing amounts of crap that nobody wants but you cannot uninstall. Chances are it will also have a price tag to rival top-end laptops. One for the "must-have-latest-top-end-penis-extension" brigade.
It took me most of a day to cleanse my phone and tablet of bloatware when I first got them. It's a never ending fight to keep them from reinstalling all of that crap automatically. I need both of them to do work so I want them as streamlined as possible. My old mobile is my mini tablet that I'll put some apps on as I don't do anything serious on it. Mostly it's used with the Pi, Arduino stuff and with Torque in the car. Financies? never on a mobile device.
Financies? never on a mobile device.
I recently had a conversation a gentleman at $BANK who told me that their mobile banking app was more secure than online banking with a desktop PC. When I suggested that he was a jester with a fine sense of irony he told me that transactions on the mobile app were subjected to more than twice as many secondary checks as those from PC-based banking.
From this I infer that $BANK are more than twice as worried about dodgy transactions from mobile as from other online banking.
"I recently had a conversation a gentleman at $BANK who told me that their mobile banking app was more secure than online banking with a desktop PC."
That's ok. I don't use a PC online (I have a Mac). Aside from that, I don't do banking online at all anyway.
The thing I run into frequently is when I call customer service somewhere and they've identified me from caller ID. If someone nicks my phone or spoofs the number, they can get in at many places. I also don't like it when the ask to "verify" some information. The problem is they don't understand the word "verify" and I don't want to volunteer information over the phone. It wasn't that long ago there was a story on Rip Off Britain or some such show where they told of a guy that got a job at a bank and was passing on people's security information via text to some accomplices when he spotted nicely stuffed accounts. He was something of an idiot but the people paying him for the info weren't and they hadn't been collared in a year's investigation.
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