The RAM is to be used and the ZTE Axon 30 5G will be the first terminal with 20GB of RAM, although this amount has a really curious trick that many manufacturers are using.
The competition in Android is voracious and this is evident every time the different proposals of the companies are seen. The race to be the best terminal in a specific section leads to devices with cameras of hundreds of megapixels, storage that exceeds a terabyte and, now, computers with 20GB of RAM.
Of course, there is a trick in all this and, is that, of the 20GB of RAM of the ZTE Axon 30 5G only 12GB are from a physical module, the remaining 8GB is virtual RAM. The trend in the terminals of Asian manufacturers is to activate a functionality designed to be able to use storage memory as RAM.
It is nothing new, because in the first versions of Android and thanks to root this could be achieved. What happened is that the operation was not entirely correct, because the speed of the storage memory was not quite fast enough as that of the RAM. There is also the fact that now almost all Android devices have a minimum of 4GB of RAM.
Then, What does it mean to have 20GB? In principle nothing and in the future, it seems that not much. Virtual RAM is still a well thought out fix, but just a simple one. In addition, having 12GB of RAM in the most powerful version, it is not really necessary to have an extra 8GB when the system itself manages the RAM for consumption.
Yes indeed, This ability on the part of the ZTE Axon 30 5G all it does is highlight the need for distinction on the part of Android devices. Most likely, in a few months we will see more manufacturers join this trend. The same in the future, when Android offers more possibilities, 20GB be the minimum necessary.