I remeber Moto E 1st Gen with Snapdragon 200, 1GB RAM ,4 GB (2.1 GB usable) Storage.
I have played games on it in 2017 it was some COD AW clone. I could install alot of Apps on just 2.1GB storage. No hang and good multi tasking on 1GB RAM.
Again I got a SD 625 + 4GB RAM and it is awesome.
I remeber thinking 4GB in phone will be max forever as 8GB in PC/Laptop was good enough for gaming and 16GB in PC for browsing ain’t enough.
Now in 2026 6GB in Android is considered low-end and Apps crash.
Again I got a Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 + 8GB RAM.
Devs please stop making apps big, CPU/RAM heavy. Apps like Facebook/Instagram should be shamed they are 1GB each.
Android OS has no limit on cache.
Android OS has no native user-frienly option to control which apps can run in background.
Phone/SoC reviews are a scam, they say SD 363 is 50% better than SD 625. I don’t think it is a very big leak from SD625 to 7s Gen 2.
Reviewers are stuck in 2013, “casual games run OK and COD runs at 60 FPS”, it always did for every phone!
I think I am going to boycott high tier phones.
Facebook and instagram don’t care. They have grown complacent. People will use their apps regardless of how much battery it will use. Are you willing to stop using bloated apps until they improve?
7s gen 2 was released in 2023. The cortex A78 cores used were launched in 2020. They are old plus the soc was not that powerful to begin with. If you want to run battery hogs like instagram and facebook be ready to sacrifice performance and battery.
You should instead buy a good upper midrange or high end phone once and upgrade only after the current phone stops receiving updates. Smartphones have become very mature and don’t bring ground breaking changes any more.