How much RAM does a smartphone need?

From experience, on an iPhone and stock android, 3GB. Skinned android, 4GB upwards. My OPO worked a treat with 3GB, but 6s Plus struggled with 2GB, as does my S7 edge with 4GB at times.
 
It's not just touch wiz, but all the bloat associated with it.

I've just cleared my apps and RAM usage is showing as 2GB (that's with bloatware disabled) where as on my OnePlus one it would be around 1.3GB used.
 
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6gb seems fine to me. can't imagine more would be needed at least for a year or 2.
 
It looks like I could do with a little bit more, but on the whole the phone is still running just as great as when I first bought it. Only issue I have is that it's suddenly become really slow to type a post on this forum - maybe needs a cache wipe or something?

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I think we are at that moment in time, when we have to admit, that there is no limit.

I think for the people that use their phone as a phone, then 2GB is fine, but if you use it for other stuff then 4GB is looking to be a bit limiting.

I have a fair number of top end phones and in piddling about with them, I have filled them up with apps for no reason other than bugger it I can ( I use 128GB SD Cards for my main Phones and 64GB for the non important ones ) and I just plonk about swapping from Phone to Card for the hell of it, just to try cramming more stupid junk that I will in all likely hood, NEVER use, but there you go.

I have filled up phones to the brink to force them to trundle to a halt purely cos Im bored and its surprisingly easy to find limits on 3 and 4GB phones.

Of course what you out on the Card, whether internal or MicroSD, does not in itself use up any of the Phones RAM, but each app does take up some of it of course, but I think that if you have some kind of RAM cleaner thats running in the back ground, that should help somewhat?

I have one that pops its head up every so often to tell me stuff that I dont give a monkeys about, and it does seem to be doing its job, however I am also sure that its lying to me because I seem to have saved terrabytes of RAM in the few months that I have used my S7 LOL
 
3gb on my Xioami redmi note 3 seems to be working well. 2gb on the old LG G2 was getting a little close and that was 8 months ago. Just for future proofing I'd get one with 4gb if I was buying now.
 
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