Two Things To Lookout For When Buying An Android Phone

In this article I’ll be highlighting two things that you
should consider before purchasing an Android phone.
‘Let’s talk the talk’.
– RAM

Random Access Memory, it is a common term but many
do not really understand its concept. Even for old model
type of phones such as those that ran on the Symbian OS,
RAM is a thing of essential value as it has its crucial use
in a phone mostly Androids for which it is indispensable
for the now and can’t be overlooked.
I’m not about to hit you with geeky terms that will only
confuse your understanding about RAM already, but let’s
put it this way: LOW RAM, SLOW MOVEMENTS.
When that Android you intend to buy comes with
attractive features but has has low ram, those features
are as useless as 10kb of internet surfing data is to
instagram.
RAM is temporary memory to which every app on your
phone has access, they don’t get to reside there or save
their data there permanently but they can come have a
stay there from time to time. Let’s make out some
instance. If you’re editing a picture on your phone or you
are making a video or an audio record, you are creating
some data which is being handled by an app, however
the app needs a something to lean on to run effectively
and that’s where our dear RAM comes in, it will take up
the responsibility of that for the app until the app is
through with the process and saves the data generated on
the phone’ ROM or Micro Storage Disk and closes.
So the more the data being handled by the app the more
the RAM needed, Get it? So RAM which helps the phone’s
movement has to come in a considerably okay quantity
else movement gets hiccups easily ‘cos if you buy that
‘lovely’ phone with like 512MB RAM, let me put it to you
that once you open up to like 3 apps with even moderate
size and they get to work, you’ll start getting slow
response from the device in no time.
If you’ve been wondering why that techno M3 of yours
or that Alcatel One touch you own runs only a bit faster
than tortoise, I believe now you know. With low ram
even if that your phone was to come with Android 6.0
marshmallow, 5.5″ screen, and it has 256 0r 512 MB
RAM, you’ll eventually hate it. It will limit your
multitasking options unbearably, and you might be
wondering how can 3 quite mid sized app just eat up a
whole 512MB RAM, answer is: If the phone is said to
come with that RAM size you’ll probably have only
256-340 at your disposal as the rest will be taking toll of
by system apps, those apps that aren’t for your use but
needed to keep the phone’s system running.
The least RAM size I’d advice you go for is 1GB, when
system apps are done taking their share, you’d be having
nothing less than about 700MB at your disposal and
that’s pretty okay for multitasking though not GREAT.
The second thing one should not miss looking out for is
the Version of Android OS the phone runs on. I’m not
going to be writing much like I did on RAM on this.
– Android Operating System

Just like iPhones have their iOS which they run on so has
Android phones. Version upgrades keep coming, and the
old one is never better than the new one, they do make
sure of that. Below is the list of android versions that has
come into existence since they started getting
confectionery code names;
Donut (1.6)
Eclair (2.0–2.1)
Froyo (2.2–2.2.3)
Gingerbread (2.3–2.3.7)
Honeycomb (3.0–3.2.6) [a]
Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0–4.0.4)
Jelly Bean (4.1–4.3.1)
KitKat (4.4–4.4.4, 4.4W–4.4W.2)
Lollipop (5.0–5.1.1)
Marshmallow (6.0)
The reason why I brought you the list is for you to take a
very good look at the strata, if you go for Ice Cream
Sandwich don’t expect to enjoy all those features you’ve
seen that attracted you to the Android brand. The least
Version I’d advice you to go for is KitKat, when a new
version comes it comes with cool features and will be
able to run the latest apps, most apps that will be built
from then hence forth will be compatible only with the
latest version and maybe the immediately preceding one
or two and that’s it. So you sure won’t want to end up
with a good looking phone running a medieval OS. I
believe I’ve made things lucid on that.
However, the above two are not the only things that are
important for one to look out for, if you’ve got the legal
tender, considerably much of it, it will be better you go
for that with at least 16GB ROM or 8 but not 4, its
processor should at least be dual core with both clocking
at 1.2GHz, might be 1GHz though. But more processors
means battery drains faster, 8MP camera with quality
resolution is best for phones, greater MP is literally
useless else you intend to print pics you take with the
phones in large forms. And a host of others, permit me to
give my fingers some rest now.
Happy Droiding.