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For me the 6gb ram variant is 300 euro and the 4Gb ram is 250 euro; I ordered the 6gb ram variant but I'm still thinking about whether I should cancel and get the 4GB instead. Is the 6Gb ram worth the price?
hello !
I went for the 4GB/32 model and am very happy with it. Upgraded from the Redmi 5 Plus and the A2 is fast as hell. In my country there is a 100 euro difference. I've looked around and saw that even the pixel 2 xl and samsung s9 have 4gb of ram and with stock android i'm sure that i won't have any bottlenecks. Also, I've made a habbit of changing phones after 12/18 months so I'm not worried.
It's my 3rd day using it, i have 0 complaints.
Rueddi_ger said:
I'm waiting for the 128/6 GB EU variant. Amazon germany only has the 4/32 variant (not enough storage space for me). Hopefully they will have it soon on their website. At the moment I'm not sure if I should buy the phone from a chinese site (e.g. Banggood) or from Amazon. At the chinese site I save ~50€, but I only have one year warranty. In the EU seller's are forced to give 2 years of warranty AFAIK (but I'n not entirely sure).
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i bought it from gearbest , 250 euro 4 gb /64 gb variant . In my experience warranty is useless
bartoloandre98 said:
i bought it from gearbest , 250 euro 4 gb /64 gb variant . In my experience warranty is useless
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Amazon returns broken devices without any troubles for me and you get your money back almost instantly
I got the 6/128GB version for £280 from a UK seller. Should be here in the next few days.
Edit: It's here....and I like it already. Very smooth, no bloat and feels nice in the hand. No tested camera or anything else as still at work.
mauley said:
I got the 6/128GB version for £280 from a UK seller. Should be here in the next few days.
Edit: It's here....and I like it already. Very smooth, no bloat and feels nice in the hand. No tested camera or anything else as still at work.
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wow nice, still waiting, gearbest takes ages.
But is 6GB faster than 4GB?
deany76 said:
But is 6GB faster than 4GB?
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Why should it? You can leave more apps open. Depends a lot on how may apps you use at the same time and if those apps need to stay alive all the time.
All in all, more RAM means better multitasking but it will certainly not make the system faster. It may reduce app load times as they will be kept in memory longer but that's about it and only when you use a lot of apps at the same time.
Benjamin_L said:
Why should it? You can leave more apps open. Depends a lot on how may apps you use at the same time and if those apps need to stay alive all the time.
All in all, more RAM means better multitasking but it will certainly not make the system faster. It may reduce app load times as they will be kept in memory longer but that's about it and only when you use a lot of apps at the same time.
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Okay thanks for your reply, 4GB. / 64GB will be ideal for me then
Cheers!
deany76 said:
But is 6GB faster than 4GB?
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It depends, more RAM help multi-tasking as reduces load times (at battery cost), but there are few apps memory hungry as Instagram and Facebook, those hardcore on Instagram would apretiate 6GB, also some web sites (web apps) are memory hungry, but in general 2GB extra wont make difference on common Android Apps even most games.
AcostaJA said:
It depends, more RAM help multi-tasking as reduces load times (at battery cost), but there are few apps memory hungry as Instagram and Facebook, those hardcore on Instagram would apretiate 6GB, also some web sites (web apps) are memory hungry, but in general 2GB extra wont make difference on common Android Apps even most games.
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Thank you!
You guys seen the latest hands on? The mate 20 is nuts. Love my 9, but that camera!
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/huawei-mate-20-pro-vs-samsung-galaxy-note-9/
If it was available in the US(VZW), I would definitely be getting it. But our govt doesn't like Huawei.
It's nice and all but it's not a Note. Plus at $1200 I would have to pass unless there were some kind of trade incentive. I don't trust Huawei enough to give them my personal info either.
Yea. the whole potential spying on the customers would be a dent. Then again.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/paranoia-will-destroy-you-why-chinese-tech-isnt-spying-on-us/
I'd presume it's unlikely and probably safe.
Google already spy on everything you do, what's one more set of eyes?
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Phones are not secure at all. The Chinese government can't keep there phones. Also my work won't allow it to even be in our building. To much sensitive data.
I was very interested in the Mate 10 a while ago but the one drawback that the Mate 20 series continues with is no support for WiFi calling, which I rely on due to our limited network coverage.
bignazpwns said:
Phones are not secure at all. The Chinese government can't keep there phones. Also my work won't allow it to even be in our building. To much sensitive data.
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What do you do? Yea. Suppose it's similar to the dji and us army fiasco.
bignazpwns said:
Phones are not secure at all. The Chinese government can't keep there phones. Also my work won't allow it to even be in our building. To much sensitive data.
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What do you do? Yea. Suppose it's similar to the dji and us army fiasco.
Performance not good as they claim. After some big problems ( or scandals) they got, I think we need to wait to confirm it good or not.
eMMC instead of UFS on P10/P10+, noisy about Kirin 970 but it not good enough + thermal problem, benchmark cheating ...
Huawei fear mongering sure seems to have worked. I'd still by a Huawei but not at that price.
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Misterxtc said:
It's nice and all but it's not a Note...............
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Exactly,comparing any phone to a Note is kinda pointless.
It's in a class of its own,not necessarily better,but,it's a unicorn.
Buy it for the S-Pen &/or the aesthetic/feel-in-hand,otherwise,there's an ocean of phones to choose from.
Limeybastard said:
Huawei fear mongering sure seems to have worked. I'd still by a Huawei but not at that price.
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Totally agree,all the mfgs & service providers,regardless of country of origin,use the same playbook,no need to fear one any more (or less) than another,regarding safeguarding your privacy/info.
also, no unlocking of the bootloader, have a mate 10 pro that i keep on a lower firmware since if i update i get a newer version of xloader so i can't downgrade without bricking the device
I don't trust Huawei. They cheated on benchmarks, they lied about camera possibilities on P20 Pro (slo-mo). Not enough convinced in what they claim.
Gotta wonder how that 4200 man battery will do. Maybe lies as well...
Huawei I would not touch again even if someone offered one to me. Great hardware crap software. The way that they think that they are Apple is just beyond joke. Now what I mean by that is EMUI is just a poor version of iOS and the way they restrict third party launchers from working on their phones is beyond joke. The amount of people moaning about the performance when they install pixel launchers is crazy.
I had that issue and I just hate the way they try to make you use Huawei Home launcher and scare you with safety notifications. So for me to be back on Samsung and having the note 9 which has a headphone Jack memory and no notch I say thank you very much.
No lte band 71, no wifi calling. No us warranty.
They chose the winner out of specsheets only? Wow. What a review.
I had a P20 Pro and was pretty disappointed in the camera. Sure the Night Mode was awesome but that was it. Otherwise for the most part it produced highly unrealistic images with waaay too agressive HDR/tone mapping. It really looked terrible at times. I found myself having to work against the camera on the P20 Pro to get the photos I wanted. I much prefer the photos my Note 9 gives me.
Also the P20 Pro had horrible optimization of software. Very choppy specially in all Google apps that stutters a lot. The software is overall pretty aggressive in its RAM handling and you won't get all notifications no matter what you do. The developers of the VLC app blocked Huawei phones from downloading their app becuase of their background process restrictions.
I do like Huawei and I've had a few of their phones but I do not like the direction they are taking with their cameras specifically.
Daniehabazin said:
also, no unlocking of the bootloader, have a mate 10 pro that i keep on a lower firmware since if i update i get a newer version of xloader so i can't downgrade without bricking the device
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We now able to unlock bl for about 55$ even latest devices
Update: 23$ for get unlock code faster ( than 20$ )
Zanr Zij said:
We now able to unlock bl for about 55$ even latest devices
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maybe, but no downgrading without bricking.
also, super slow updates...
never a huawei phone again.
i work in IT and have been "bribed" (free dinners with lots of alcohol) by huawei to get us to switch from cisco to their stuff in several datacenters.
Which phone should I get?
Honor play
Honor note 10 or
Mate 10 pro?
Each of them will be 6Gb ram.
Price differs a little. $360; $430; $500., but considering that mate 10 pro is available to my local shop price should be considered less (no shipping fees, no importing fees)
I want the phone to have a large screen and large battery. Camera should be decent and the phone should usable for at last one year
I live in europe so working LTE bands are a must.
I'm strongly thinking about mate 10 pro, but I'm note so sure.
What do you think?
Thank you
-EM- said:
Which phone should I get?
Honor play
Honor note 10 or
Mate 10 pro?
Each of them will be 6Gb ram.
Price differs a little. $360; $430; $500., but considering that mate 10 pro is available to my local shop price should be considered less (no shipping fees, no importing fees)
I want the phone to have a large screen and large battery. Camera should be decent and the phone should usable for at last one year
I live in europe so working LTE bands are a must.
I'm strongly thinking about mate 10 pro, but I'm note so sure.
What do you think?
Thank you
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I think you already know the size of the screen. Not sure about 6gb of ram. This is research you can do for yourself, to be honest - is the screen/ram big enough or not? I don't understand about being usable for one year - all should last longer than that unless you drop it. Were you planning on dropping it? You've quoted dollars but you say you're in europe.
The honor play in the uk is a lot less than your lowest price. I have one and i'm very happy with it (other that Pie being forever on the horizon, despite weekly click-baity rumours about how it's out now/soon).
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I think you already know the size of the screen. Not sure about 6gb of ram. This is research you can do for yourself, to be honest - is the screen/ram big enough or not? I don't understand about being usable for one year - all should last longer than that unless you drop it. Were you planning on dropping it? You've quoted dollars but you say you're in europe.
The honor play in the uk is a lot less than your lowest price. I have one and i'm very happy with it (other that Pie being forever on the horizon, despite weekly click-baity rumours about how it's out now/soon).
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All three phones have 6 gb of ram, that is why the price for the honor play is higher (I think).
No, I am not going to drop the phone. I was asking if the phone is going to keep up with technology for a year.
Currency quotation should not be an issue.
I am asking for opinions, which phone should I get.
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All three phones have 6 gb of ram, that is why the price for the honor play is higher (I think).
No, I am not going to drop the phone. I was asking if the phone is going to keep up with technology for a year.
Currency quotation should not be an issue.
I am asking for opinions, which phone should I get.
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No, my honor play has 4gb. This is why you have to do your own research. Nowadays something like "honor play" is more a brand than a model, and around the world there are different specs for it, hence the "does this phone have nfc" type questions here which go on forever.
Get the honor play - it's great and you'd need to pay another £100-£200 to get a phone which is as powerful.
So looking at the note 10 designs it looks like its going to have the hole punch. ( which I dont like)
At the moment the note 9 8gb version is on sale at £649. Trade in of my 6gb version will get me £340.
Is it worth the £309 price difference to get the extra ram and storage and the hybrid sim version bearing in mind I'm going to stick with the note 9 until at least the note 11?
Not in my opinion, I doubt you'd notice the extra ram that much and you could buy an SD card for much cheaper if you really needed extra storage.
clax6 said:
So looking at the note 10 designs it looks like its going to have the hole punch. ( which I dont like)
At the moment the note 9 8gb version is on sale at £649. Trade in of my 6gb version will get me £340.
Is it worth the £309 price difference to get the extra ram and storage and the hybrid sim version bearing in mind I'm going to stick with the note 9 until at least the note 11?
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In my opinion, it depends on what you do with your phone...
Do you play heavy games or daily basis activities?
If only daily basis activities (Email, Gmail, Word, Excel, Facebook, Reddit, Telegram or others) then 6GB would be enough, my opinion only.
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No, 6gb is enough
Save your money. Your existing note will be good until it dies. Companies keep adding minute changes to their "next flagships" to play with our minds to buy their new phones. They want your money is all it is. Keep your note 9. But it you have the extra cash then have at it.
I've had both and you absolutely cant tell a difference
Carlosmff said:
In my opinion, it depends on what you do with your phone...
Do you play heavy games or daily basis activities?
If only daily basis activities (Email, Gmail, Word, Excel, Facebook, Reddit, Telegram or others) then 6GB would be enough, my opinion only.
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That worked on you? You know it's all a gimmick right?
Jammol said:
That worked on you? You know it's all a gimmick right?
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Not sure why someone thinks the ram would effect game performance.. especially when going from 6gb to 8gb lol. I don't think most people know what ram really is or does honestly.
crixley said:
Not sure why someone thinks the ram would effect game performance.. especially when going from 6gb to 8gb lol. I don't think most people know what ram really is or does honestly.
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Hum Does not affect games... right... well smart guy... please clarify us... and tell us what RAM is and how does this not affect games...
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Carlosmff said:
Hum Does not affect games... right... well smart guy... please clarify us... and tell us what RAM is and how does this not affect games...
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Ram is random access memory and effects how many applications stay open in the background. If you're planning on running ten resource heavy games open at once maybe. Game performance would be much more heavily impacted by the GPU and CPU performance than by the amount of ram (which from 6 to 8gb would have no effect whatsoever I would guess). Unless you're planning on switching back and forth between two very intensive games I can't see why this would benefit you.
How about you instead tell me how it benefits game performance? Smart guy lol
I have 8/512 note 9, only reason is i need 2 things.. huuge storage and 2 sim cards...if no need for 2 sims i would get 6/128 and stick sd card inside
crixley said:
Ram is random access memory and effects how many applications stay open in the background. If you're planning on running ten resource heavy games open at once maybe. Game performance would be much more heavily impacted by the GPU and CPU performance than by the amount of ram (which from 6 to 8gb would have no effect whatsoever I would guess). Unless you're planning on switching back and forth between two very intensive games I can't see why this would benefit you.
How about you instead tell me how it benefits game performance? Smart guy lol
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The current industry of smartphone tech reminds me of the PC age. Not to mention, when ram levels started increasing and folks kept closing out their background apps to "get the device to be faster." I still chuckle at those days.?
Jammol said:
The current industry of smartphone tech reminds me of the PC age. Not to mention, when ram levels started increasing and folks kept closing out their background apps to "get the device to be faster." I still chuckle at those days.?
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Or when they kept putting out higher and higher megapixel cameras because people thought megapixels = quality lol
crixley said:
Or when they kept putting out higher and higher megapixel cameras because people thought megapixels = quality lol
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Manufacturers are trying to get us back to wanting more megapixels yet again; they got us hating bezels because our phone started to be good enough to keep for more than a year; they got us obsessed with the amount of RAM there is in our phones and how the CPU benchmarks. I've got a Note 9 and a Mi Max 3 and I honestly could happily use either of them day-to-day. Manufacturers in all industries have a duty to make us want to crave things, and they do a good job of it. To answer the question though - no the OP should not upgrade unless they have money to burn as RAM will have absolutely no difference on gaming performance or day-to-day performance - it's just a psychological up-sell to get people to get the 512GB model. Also did you really say you'd be effectively selling your Note for £349??
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Manufacturers are trying to get us back to wanting more megapixels yet again; they got us hating bezels because our phone started to be good enough to keep for more than a year; they got us obsessed with the amount of RAM there is in our phones and how the CPU benchmarks. I've got a Note 9 and a Mi Max 3 and I honestly could happily use either of them day-to-day. Manufacturers in all industries have a duty to make us want to crave things, and they do a good job of it. To answer the question though - no the OP should not upgrade unless they have money to burn as RAM will have absolutely no difference on gaming performance or day-to-day performance - it's just a psychological up-sell to get people to get the 512GB model. Also did you really say you'd be effectively selling your Note for £349??
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Yes that is the trade in price.
After reading lots of posts (as well as this one) about the 2 different models I'm going to stick with what I've got. I have a 256 sd card so I have plenty of storage and as regards ram unless your doing a speed test side by side I dont think I'm going to notice. I'm probably going to stick a sim only sim in September when my contract ends and hold out with the 9 until i either break it or something revolutionary comes out. Which i doubt.
Another thing that i think the 9 has in its favour is the fact that it DOES have a forehead and chin as when watching videos you dont cover any of the screen where as with a real edge to edge like the s10 and most probably the note 10 i think it will be an issue let alone the pesky hole punch!
Thanks for all the replies
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Or when they kept putting out higher and higher megapixel cameras because people thought megapixels = quality lol
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clax6 said:
Yes that is the trade in price.
After reading lots of posts (as well as this one) about the 2 different models I'm going to stick with what I've got. I have a 256 sd card so I have plenty of storage and as regards ram unless your doing a speed test side by side I dont think I'm going to notice. I'm probably going to stick a sim only sim in September when my contract ends and hold out with the 9 until i either break it or something revolutionary comes out. Which i doubt.
Another thing that i think the 9 has in its favour is the fact that it DOES have a forehead and chin as when watching videos you dont cover any of the screen where as with a real edge to edge like the s10 and most probably the note 10 i think it will be an issue let alone the pesky hole punch!
Thanks for all the replies
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I sometimes use an older iPhone and I really do love the bezels as far as usability goes. All the newer phones lead to me catching UI elements - for example I'm a big YouTube watcher and the only phone I've used recently where I never accidently skip videos when moving my phone around is the iPhone. The other downside to bezels being removed is that phones really do all look pretty much the same now.
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clax6 said:
Yes that is the trade in price.
After reading lots of posts (as well as this one) about the 2 different models I'm going to stick with what I've got. I have a 256 sd card so I have plenty of storage and as regards ram unless your doing a speed test side by side I dont think I'm going to notice. I'm probably going to stick a sim only sim in September when my contract ends and hold out with the 9 until i either break it or something revolutionary comes out. Which i doubt.
Another thing that i think the 9 has in its favour is the fact that it DOES have a forehead and chin as when watching videos you dont cover any of the screen where as with a real edge to edge like the s10 and most probably the note 10 i think it will be an issue let alone the pesky hole punch!
Thanks for all the replies
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As for RAM, whatever anyone says, it has no bearing on actual application speed - all RAM does is hold applications in memory. Apps are flushed from memory according to space and the particular memory setup the manufacturer implements. Some manufacturers throw loads of RAM at their devices but their battery management is so brutal that it's almost worthless.
Google themselves think 4GB is enough, and cynicism aside, they do actually write the OS, which the manufacturers don't. If anyone knows how much RAM is necessary it's Google IMO. I can't think what would motivate them to think otherwise. Unless you have applications hogging loads of RAM, the worst you can expect with less RAM is that an application you had open a while back has to re-open again. With 6GB of RAM this should rarely be an issue, and many apps freeze their state anyway
Tend to agree that you likely wouldn't see much benefit with extra RAM and I certainly don't think extra 2Gb at a cost of £300 is good value.
That said I can see the appeal of 512Gb internal storage versus 128Gb
If you really want an 8Gb / 512Gb Note 9 then wait until Note 10 is on sale, I guarantee Note 9 price will fall significantly and the difference to upgrade to 8Gb / 512Gb Note 9 will likely be less expensive.
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I don't think most people know what ram really is or does honestly.
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its a pickup right?
like the ones people like to have "in case they need to hull stuff" which happens 2 x every 5 years.
or like when constructions workers think they need a pickup because coming to work in a car is so unprofessional but unfortunately everyone knows ure not aloud to use your own personal machinery on construction sites.
or even: pollution on 4 wheels?
lol ok jokes over.
You won't notice any difference between the 6GB and the 8GB models
clax6 said:
So looking at the note 10 designs it looks like its going to have the hole punch. ( which I dont like)
At the moment the note 9 8gb version is on sale at £649. Trade in of my 6gb version will get me £340.
Is it worth the £309 price difference to get the extra ram and storage and the hybrid sim version bearing in mind I'm going to stick with the note 9 until at least the note 11?
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Monitor your memory usage. If you never approach 6GB utilization, then you'll never gain anything with an extra two GB. Have you filled 128 GB with content you couldn't put on a $50 SD card?
Is the 12GB RAM version worth it? When will I need this much RAM?
I'd say if you are going with the Chinese version it's worth it, especially if you like notifications without delay cause in some cases you may have to keep apps open that's when the extra RAM will be of benefit. And on another note the price difference isn't crazy especially with the decent prices for the phone itself already
Well,the obvious advantage of having the 12gb ram model is the 256gb of ufs 3.0 storage which will come in handy even if the 12gb ram is probably Overkill,
To quote the great Flossy Carter:
I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it"
If you use your smartphone as a workstation as a lot of people do, editing 4k videos, using heavy resources apps as running Ubuntu through Termux and some others things ... it is worth it. If you use it for checking social media and play games go with the X2 and save 100/150$