The Vivo Xplay 5 smartphone will have 6GB of RAM because more is better, right?

5. SuperMaoriBro (Posts: 533; Member since: 23 Jun 2012)

I agree except for the use of literally. Me thinks you dont know what literally actually means lol, but so dont millions of other people

16. RebelwithoutaClue (Posts: 3578; Member since: 05 Apr 2013)

I literally died laughing reading this comment ;) /s

19. Jack58221 (Posts: 157; Member since: 23 Feb 2013)

I think he's close enough on the use a literally unless you are looking just at "over kill" and are picturing someone literally killing the phone overtop of something.

If the technology is there, why stop with 4gb. Although this is literally putting a round through the phone as it is flung over my brother's head.

Otherwise literally can be defined as "actual" out "truly". I'm that case it fits as it was written.

29. nokia12 (Posts: 582; Member since: 19 Nov 2013)

A quick search on google returns the following results

Literally - used for emphasis while not being literally true. / actually / truly

Overkill - excessive use, treatment, or action / an excess of something (as a quantity or an action) beyond what is required or suitable for a particular purpose

So i don't understand why are you considering their use as inappropriate . Either i am wrong somewhere or you are not familiar with the other/alternate meanings of both the words

Can anybody explain ?

P.s- this was in reply to post 5

32. MrElectrifyer (banned) (Posts: 3960; Member since: 21 Oct 2014)

Literally is defined as "In a literal manner or sense; exactly."

Literal is defined as "Taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory."

So overkill literally means over killing the phone, but how is ram killing the phone?

PS. Install the Google Dictionary extension for chrome and youget definitions by simply double-clicking on words.

33. nokia12 (Posts: 582; Member since: 19 Nov 2013)

Thanks for the reply i am aware of primary meanings of both the words

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/literally

Literally - "Used for emphasis while not being literally true:"

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/overkill

Overkill - "Excessive use, treatment, or action"

I was asking about the secondary/informal meaning of the words

They are listed in the oxford/google/webster dictionary so isn't their usage correct ?

34. MrElectrifyer (banned) (Posts: 3960; Member since: 21 Oct 2014)

I guess it all depends on what you consider as their "most basic sense". If most basic sense is what you see in the dictionary, then yeah, their use is correct. However, if most basic sense is taking the words as they sound, then the use is incorrect.

9. vincelongman (Posts: 5068; Member since: 10 Feb 2013)

This.

Also once they figure out how to increase bandwidth (e.g. Wide-OI), 6GB wont be overkill for Vulkan games, especially in VR (although, this may be 2-3 years away)

The PS4/XB1 have 8GB unified RAM
In 2-3 years we will have tablets as fast as the PS4/XB1
In 3-5 years we will have phones as fast as the PS4/XB1

So it shouldn't be surprising to see phones with 8GB or more of unified RAM soon
Lets not forget NVIDIA/AMD are going to release GPUs with 32GB of VRAM this year

11. Ghost04 (Posts: 349; Member since: 03 May 2014)

But by that time we will have PS5 and XB2 probably and with 16 GB RAM.

13. vincelongman (Posts: 5068; Member since: 10 Feb 2013)

Possibly

BTW I'm not trying to make this into another silly phones vs consoles argument

Just saying, 8GB RAM in phones won't be pointless in a few years

28. tedkord (Posts: 14121; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)

It was like 10 years between the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One.

31. JasonX (Posts: 54; Member since: 11 Feb 2015)

10 years is still just one console generation.

26. JasonX (Posts: 54; Member since: 11 Feb 2015)

I don't know that it will be that long for tablets. I recently bought an Nvidia Shield K1 and it is easily as fast as an XBox 360. Once they put their X1 chip in a tablet with the appropriate RAM, they may well get near PS4 and XBone speeds.

27. Punchy506 (Posts: 129; Member since: 10 Jan 2016)

Lol XBone

10. S.R.K. (banned) (Posts: 678; Member since: 11 Feb 2016)

6GB of ram is there for a reason... go on and open many tabs in Safari and switch between them to see if they are all loaded...

17. Bm888 (Posts: 516; Member since: 06 Jul 2015)

for me no technology advances is ever overkill...I always want more to enjoy fullest within my era of life. .and if it means bragging rights , that's why everyone go for the latest and best to *brag about

12. S.R.K. (banned) (Posts: 678; Member since: 11 Feb 2016)

HAH. On My note 2,3 and 4 I have had as many as 20 tabs in the browser ad see no difference in performance. Why? Because my device has 3GB of RAM where it can store all that data.

I think of it as a job. Duh If I had 15 things I need to do, but concentrate all my time on just one, it is obvious I can do that one very efficiently. But I an come out better of I can do all 15 in the same amount of time and again be just a efficient.

Comparing an iPhone to an Android Is always just dumb. f the iPhone could do what an Android phone could do, we wouldn't need Android. Just like if Mac OS/OSX di what Windows could do, we wouldn't have needed Windows.

18. elitewolverine (Posts: 5192; Member since: 28 Oct 2013)

And my 8yr old desktop that runs modeling programs, photoshop, bluestacks, and visual studio and emulators has 4GB of ram.

for the love of all that is holy, put an x86 chip inside, throw me WP with x86 continuum support.

21. S.R.K. (banned) (Posts: 678; Member since: 11 Feb 2016)

Would love that, but Wp has no apps and game.. I'd love if Wp merges with Android, just like BB has. So it will have all the apps.

23. elitewolverine (Posts: 5192; Member since: 28 Oct 2013)

Has a lot, if they are able to pull off what HP is doing with their virtual desktop for x86...that would be awesome.

Or simply allow it in continuum mode without any virtualization. With android emulators on windows if it can run on x86 wp, there wouldn't be a need to merge. Then I can play my MechCommander 2 on my phone

24. S.R.K. (banned) (Posts: 678; Member since: 11 Feb 2016)

That would be great, but no way Ms will merge with X86. With WP.

Which ever way or if both way was possible, that's a stellar.

25. S.R.K. (banned) (Posts: 678; Member since: 11 Feb 2016)

That's like Wp can access Android and BB apps. Omg that's awesome