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Lew Later

This is the Next Superphone...

Lew Later

Quickscope Media

Tech News, News, Technology

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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This could be the new smartphone spec champion. Lew's Laptop - https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x1/ThinkPad-X1-Nano/p/22TP2X1X1N1 Get a Latercase - https://latercase.com​

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0:00.0

You know what you need? Well, yeah, what's it? You need 18 gigs of RAM on your smartphone.

0:11.0

Guy like you. Sure. I'll take it. You don't sound convinced. Yeah. Yeah. That's quite a

0:21.5

lot. Listen, what am I doing here? Listen, you're playing games, obviously. Here's a thing. I mean,

0:28.8

certainly with a RAM count like that is obvious that it's a spec contest that's going on.

0:36.2

If you want to call yourself the supreme, super phone thing, you've got to win in this

0:45.6

variety of categories, which happens to include RAM. Sure. And that's where this device comes in.

0:52.3

The ROG Phone 5 to pack a whopping 18 gigabytes of LPDDR5 RAM.

1:02.4

This is maybe this is more than you have in laptops. It's more than many people have in their

1:07.6

desktops. And it's 18. And it's 18. It's two more than like a regular, which is two more than

1:17.1

16. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. It's a great observation. The 18 gigabyte LPDDR5 mobile DRAM

1:26.1

module comes from SK Heinix semiconductor based out of South Korea. And they said that this chip

1:33.9

runs at a maximum of 6400 megabits per second, which is around 20% faster than previous LPDDR5 RAM.

1:41.8

It's got to be fast RAM through it can't be any RAM. It's got to be fast RAM. And certainly with

1:47.7

these ROG phones, they have been targeting the champion status as far as I mean mostly targeting

1:56.9

gamers, right? Sure. The the gamer crowd has emerged as this opportunity for smartphone makers

2:05.4

to go after some crazy spec sheets because in certain circumstances, that's pretty much the only

2:11.1

crowd who can really take advantage of it. Some other specifications on this device, Snapdragon

2:16.7

Triple 8, that's a must. Pretty much I mean, what other chip can you possibly have to pair with

2:22.0

that much memory? High refresh. Oh, that display. No specs on how high refresh though. We've had

2:27.2

these previous ROG phones up at some crazy numbers. 144 hertz type of thing. Many mobile games not

2:34.0

even supporting such a thing. But you know, there are segments. There are places where competitive

2:43.2

gaming on mobile is a real thing. I remember having visited. I was in Taiwan.

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