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Samsung S27 Drops to 8GB of RAM. Other Android Phones Go Back to 4GB. S27 Ultra S27 Pro · eSIM STUDIOS Podcast - Tech News + Reviews

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  Samsung is about to make drastic downgrades in
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  its upcoming S27 series devices and make you
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  pay more for it. Let's get into it. So according
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  to a tipster, a reliable tipster over on Twitter,
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  they're saying that the upcoming Samsung Galaxy
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  S27 lineup is going to reduce the amount of RAM
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  and charge you more for it. So I don't even know
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  how to pronounce this dude's name, his handle,
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  but he's saying that Samsung is going to drop
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  the base S27 RAM down from 12 gigs of RAM to
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  8 gigabytes of RAM. Yo, what? I did not see this
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  coming. So we have leaked storage configurations.
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  outlines storage outlines for the upcoming s27
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  series and it goes as following the s27 the base
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  s27 is going to get 8 gigs of ram with 256 gigs
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  of storage and then there is an upgraded model
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  with 12 gigs of ram 512 gigs of storage while
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  the s27 plus base model you're getting 8 gigs
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  of ram 256 gigs of storage and there's also an
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  upgraded storage variant of 12 gigs of ram 512
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  gigs of storage. Now, fortunately, fortunately,
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  the S27 Pro and S27 Ultra are not going to be
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  messed with as far as the RAM and or storage.
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  You're still getting 12 gigs of RAM base all
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  the way up to 512 gigs of storage for the S27
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  Pro. And on the S27 Ultra, same storage configurations
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  as the S26 Ultra. So you're getting a base 12
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  gigs of RAM. and up to one terabyte of storage.
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  Now on that one terabyte model, they're still
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  gonna offer 16 gigs of RAM, which I'm sure is
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  gonna be a pretty penny. Speaking of that pretty
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  penny, Samsung is also going to raise, it's confirmed,
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  gonna raise the price of these storage variants,
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  all the way from the base model, all the way
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  to the max storage configurations in this S27
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  series. um now along with the price hikes samsung
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  is also going to do away with the traditional
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  pre -order perks like complimentary storage upgrades
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  those days are long gone now samsung is also
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  going to make a change to try and maximize their
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  profits on these devices because samsung is also
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  going to split the ufs flash storage across these
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  device lines so what you're going to see is ufs
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  storage 4 .0 ufs storage 4 .1 and potentially
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  i say potentially ufs storage 5 .0 i say potentially
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  because this new snapdragon 8 elite extreme gen
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  6 can support ufs 5 .0 storage down to ufs 4
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  .0 storage now the newest latest ufs 5 .0 storage
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  is obviously going to be more expensive so i
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  can see i can hear here's kind of what samsung
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  i think is going to do since we know they're
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  going to split ufs storage and ufs storage 4
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  .0 has been out for a while 4 .1 is is the latest
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  and greatest but this new cpu this new chipset
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  from qualcomm is said to support not only 4 .0
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  but 4 .1 and 5 .0 5 .0 is going to be mad expensive
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  so i think what samsung is going to do is put
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  the ufs storage 5 .0 on the 16 gig one terabyte
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  model right the upgraded version because people
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  are buying that because they want more storage
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  maybe they're content creators maybe you use
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  your your phone for whatever you're going to
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  need fast storage on higher storage variants
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  makes sense now i think what they're going to
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  do is on the base storage variants so on the
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  s27 s27 plus s27 pro and s27 ultra i think the
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  base storage so whatever just the cheapest storage
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  variant is in those respected models i think
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  you're going to get ufs 4 .0 storage and i think
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  the upgraded storage uh typically is the 512
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  gig storage variant model i think those will
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  get ufs 4 .1 and then as i mentioned the one
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  terabyte model which is only available on the
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  ultra by the way the s27 pro is not getting a
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  16 gig of ram option variant or one terabyte
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  the max storage on the s27 pro goes 12 gigs of
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  ram 512 gigs of storage so the only model i think
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  that will support ufs 5 .0 is the one terabyte
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  model on the s27 ultra it's probably going to
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  be not expensive on that one but it sucks it
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  sucks right but this is an unfortunate um thing
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  that we're just gonna have to deal with and i
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  hope it doesn't get worse But, I mean, a lot
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  of people in the memory world and or memory business,
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  Michael Dell, who owns Dell Computers, started
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  Dell Computers, said this week, or should I say
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  last week, that the storage memory crisis is
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  going to go well into the 2030s. So we're still
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  three years away before we hit 2030 at some point.
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  At some point, I'm hoping that this plateaus,
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  that this price increase levels off so we can
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  see some relief. Because as we get closer to
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  this Galaxy S27 launch, I'm kind of holding my
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  eyes. I don't want to look at these prices. Now,
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  thankfully for us here in the U .S., we don't
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  have to pay a full retail price. You can go to
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  Verizon. Look, and they're going to have to even
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  tweak. their business model because as the prices
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  of these phones get more expensive i'm not sure
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  they're going to be able to do free phone or
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  free phone with a trade -in you see what i'm
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  saying i think they're going to have to tweak
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  but that's another video that we'll get into
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  later i'm just saying um this is not good now
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  there's other manufacturers there's other android
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  phone manufacturers that are going to reduce
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  their RAM. So this is not just Samsung. I think
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  we're going to see this across the board because
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  that tipster also says that for mid -range phones
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  are going to be capped at eight gigs of RAM and
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  budget and entry level Android phones are going
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  to be capped at four gigabytes of RAM. You heard
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  me right. Four. Is it even possible to run Android
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  on four gigs of RAM? I don't know and I don't
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  want to find out. That does not sound like a
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  fun experience to me. Here's one way I think
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  could possibly mitigate and or make this less
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  of an impact performance -wise to the end consumer.
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  So Windows 11. Windows just recently pushed an
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  update to Windows to essentially modify the RAM
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  management. They've decreased the amount of Ram
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  it takes to run windows 11. And I just, I think
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  I just recently updated mine just a couple of
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  days ago and haven't really tested it. But windows
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  is taking the first step in trying to reduce
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  the amount of Ram that the operating system uses.
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  I think Google is going to have to do this in
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  the base code of Android. So I think to, to fully.
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  manipulate the amount of ram management and or
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  performance for the end user i think you're gonna
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  have to see these this ram management tweak uh
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  being taken on on three fronts so you're gonna
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  need google the base code of android you're gonna
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  need to see google make massive tweaks and ram
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  management and then you're going to have to have
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  these android manufacturers who who take that
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  code and reskin it like like when you buy with
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  samsung like color os without with oppo they're
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  going to need to tweak their code to have their
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  operating system use less ram and then it's going
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  to be up to the developers to tweak their applications
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  to use less ram so i think For the end user,
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  if they're going to reduce the amount of RAM
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  these devices are going to be coming with, we
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  need to put pressure on three fronts. Android,
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  the actual code, these Android manufacturers
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  with their skin, and the developers with these
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  apps, retool, recode, and use less RAM for their
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  application, for their platform. Because if you
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  reduce the amount of RAM, there's gonna be a
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  lot of people complaining i mean it's gonna be
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  a your phone's gonna be sluggish it's gonna stutter
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  it's not gonna perform as well it's just gonna
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  suck so i hate taking steps backward but i get
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  why they're doing it to turn a profit let's be
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  honest that's why right it sucks let me know
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  down below in the comments what you think can
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  you use the current phone you're using would
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  you be able to use it with less ram do these
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  companies need to implement more and or better
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  ram expansion right would that mitigate the reduction
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  in ram using some of your your your your your
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  storage in your phone as ram supplemented for
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  the ram loss maybe let me know what you think