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OPPO Find X to get 10GB RAM version, spotted at TENAA
There have been rumors of a 10GB RAM smartphone in development for a while now. Vivo's yet unreleased Xplay7 was rumored to come with 10GB RAM and the ASUS ROG Phone was also supposed to come with 10GB of RAM. It appears OPPO will be the first to launch a 10GB RAM phone judging by an updated TENAA listing of the Find X.
The Find X originally comes with 8GB of RAM and 128GB or 256GB of storage but Chinese leaker @UniverseIce shared a photo of an updated listing that shows the Find X will get a new 10GB RAM + 256GB ROM model.
We were able to confirm that the leak is genuine as the full TENAA specs listing for the Find X (PAFM00 model) now has a 10GB RAM variant. The update to the listing was made yesterday. The rest of the specs will remain the same as the other variant.
TENAA is China's phone regulatory body.
Also at The Verge, Engadget, Fossbytes, and BGR.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by jasassin on Saturday September 29 2018, @03:21AM (13 children)
That's a whole lot of ROM. WTF am I gonna do with 256GB of ROM?
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday September 29 2018, @04:02AM (4 children)
Well, if you're not filling your phone up with pirated Blu-rays, I'd imagine that storage would be used for apps and games.
Think back to the good ol' days of the failed Ubuntu Edge [wikipedia.org] concept phone. That was intended to be a PC replacement, and would have had 128 GB of storage. If you have the capability to use a docked phone as a desktop, you might be able to use all that space.
On the game front, as lame as playing on such a small screen could be, you could do the same docking thing, or use it with something along the lines of Gear VR for VR games or 360-degree videos.
You could simply use the phone like you would use a USB flash drive. I typically plug my phone into my laptop to charge it anyway.
It's not like 256 GB costs so much for the smartphone manufacturer. A 256 GB microSD might cost you around $65 [camelcamelcamel.com].
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 29 2018, @04:12AM (2 children)
Oh goody, apps and games in ROM, so you're stuck with them forever. Permanent, non-bugfix-replaceable, undeletable Facebook and Candy Crush.
ROM wouldn't do you a lick of good for storing copies of videos. It's read only. It contains stuff that's always present, that you can never delete, ever, without taking a brick to the device. Think Apple forcing U2 on everybody, only the phones come from the factory with the album preloaded and, because it's in ROM, you can never delete it.
(Score: 2) by toddestan on Saturday September 29 2018, @06:49PM (1 child)
I'm pretty sure when they say "ROM" they really mean "flash".
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Pino P on Sunday September 30 2018, @12:09AM
An Android phone's flash memory often contains gigabytes of (possibly abusive) F2P games and trialware. And the partition they're in is marked as read-only so that they remain available even after a factory reset. If an application gets updated, the user ends up with two copies: the older version in the read-only partition and the newer version downloaded from Google Play in the normal partition.
(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Saturday September 29 2018, @04:14AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 29 2018, @04:04AM (2 children)
I've wondered that when I've seen phones advertising how much ROM they have. That's a whole lot of unremovable crapware.
Who gives a flying duck how much ROM a phone has? RAM, storage & expandability, screen size & resolution, camera characteristics: those are the kinds of things people are interested in. "Now with Facebook in ROM" is not a selling feature.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday September 29 2018, @04:17AM (1 child)
Ehhh, I'm pretty sure that was just a mistake in the article. Or had you already figured that out?
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 29 2018, @06:29PM
Probably not a mistake in TFA, though you would expect a competent reporter to pick up on the error. I've looked up a few phones as a consideration for my next. A number of them highlight having large quantities of ROM without mentioning how much storage they have.
More likely is that some marketing drone has a handbook of computer buzzwords from the '80s or early '90s and noticed that RAM and ROM were often used together, so in their minds ROM equates to hard drive (or, more generally, storage). Regardless of the reason, if a company's marketing people are too dumb to distinguish ROM from storage, they're not getting my money.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday September 29 2018, @04:17AM (4 children)
All of it music, all from CDs that I own.
I readily agree that not everyone is so heavily into music, but some are.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 29 2018, @09:09AM (3 children)
Say you compress each CD to about 160MB (320kbps mp3s I think): 1563 CDs at 25$ a CD costs you some $40k... Putting aside the storage space issue, I think you've crossed the hobby bridge pass the passion crossroads into the dependency bad neighborhoods area.
"Nanna always said rock was the devils music but I wouldn't listen.
Now, here I am curled up in a street corner, strung out on old Bon Jovi mixtapes.
Nothing but a cardboard box to call a home..."
Will make a good Johnny Cash song.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 29 2018, @06:39PM (2 children)
So your iGadget, with its 256MB, is a very early generation MP3 player?
Your one CD just filled most of your 256MB of Flash. You'll probably want to compress your CD to 64kbps. The sound quality will be crap compared to your preferred 320kbps, but you'll be able to fit several CDs of music onto your iGadget.
It should be pointed out that your iGadget's meager 256 MB of Flash has one major benefit over the Otto phone's 256GB of ROM: your flash storage is rewritable. You can erase and replace the handful of CDs' music. ROMs, unless you have a personal burner, are factory-set. It's worse than when Steve Jobs forced that U2 album on everyone. If Otto puts the album in ROM, you're stuck with it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Saturday September 29 2018, @09:59PM (1 child)
There is no goddamn 256 GB of ROM. It's flash storage.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 30 2018, @09:59PM
RTFS. Then RTFA. R-O-M spells "ROM" -- read-only memory - not "flash". If the PR flack/article author insists on referring to the wrong type of storage and the editors neglect to point out an obvious stupid mistake and a commenter goofs up their megs and gigs then it behooves us to make fun of the lot of them. <grin>
You might want to cut back on the caffeine.