Most modern laptops that sell for under $1000 have at least 8GB of RAM, which is generally good enough for most basic computing tasks. Meanwhile smartphone makers continue to push the limits of how much memory they can squeeze into a phone: it’s not unusual to find flagship phones with up to 12GB of RAM, […]
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Lilbits: Google’s antitrust woes, new Intel and AMD chips, and MS Edge for Linux (for some reason)
The US Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, claiming the company abuses its dominance in the search and advertising spaces to… stay on top of the search and advertising spaces. Xda-developers has a pretty good write up of the allegations. The case is likely to play out in years rather than […]
Lilbits: iPhone 12, Windows 10, and Google Workspace
Apple usually introduces new iPhones in September, but this year the company used its September event to unveil an 8th-gen iPad and a 4th-gen iPad Air (which is the first device to ship with an Apple A14 Bionic processor). But there was no iPhone in sight. It looks like we don’t have long to wait […]
DDR5 RAM is coming (in a few years, maybe)
SK Hynix has just announced that it’s developed a 16GB DDR5 memory chip that it says is the first to match the upcoming JEDEC standard for DDR5. The company says its DDR5 memory uses less power while offering faster speeds than today’s DDR4 memory. But you’ll have to wait a little while to get your […]
It’s 2017 and smartphones with 8GB of RAM are coming soon
Windows PC makers are still offering plenty of computers with 4GB of RAM (or less). But soon you may be able to buy a smartphone with as much as 8GB of RAM. We heard rumors last year that LeEco would launch a phone with that much memory. It didn’t happen. But last week Asus unveiled […]
Lilbits (9-24-2013): Making it easier to print from your phone
Phones and tablets are gaining more desktop-like features all the time. Not only can you use a device that slides into your pocket to make phone calls, snap photos, and surf the web, but you can also use it to edit office documents, manage your finances, and much more. There are even ways to make […]
Smartphones to get more RAM: 4GB is the new 2GB
Remember when smartphone makers started shipping handsets with 1GB of RAM? That was pretty exciting. But in mid-2013, most top-of-the-line Android handsets are shipping with 2GB. Pretty soon that’ll seem pretty old school though. Â SK Hynix has announced it’s working on 4GB LPDDR3 memory for mobile devices. Samsung also recently announced it’s working on LPDDR3 […]