>Now, why would a smartphone need so much RAM, you may ask? Well, Black Shark, Black Shark 2 and Black Shark 2 PRO are some of the fastest gaming smartphones on the market and Black Shark is a niche producer, aimed primarily at gamers.<p>Correct me if I'm wrong, but more RAM shouldn't increase gaming performance, only multitasking performance. I'm guessing this is only a gimmick as there's only so much they can do in terms of hardware (ie. the fastest commodity chipset is SD 8xx and everybody's already using it), so they're resorting to this to differentiate themselves.
Apple is (perhaps?) the only smartphone maker that doesn’t advertise RAM capacity or CPU clock frequency — measures that didn’t really mean much in the PC era (except to confuse and confound consumers) and didn’t matter in the smartphone era. If your hardware and software are integrated well and optimized, you don’t need a lot of RAM (as seen in real world responsiveness and performance of Apple devices with half or one third the RAM that some Android devices have). Taking a wild guess, at the current rate of change, it will be two years before many new Android phones have 16GB RAM, and at least four years before the new flagship iPhones have that much. Heck, even most laptops sold today are not yet at “16GB is the base RAM” level and start at 4GB (or worse).