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Originally Posted by Crowl
Besides the cost issue, there is actually a reason why mobile companies don't slap in a lot more ram than they need is that it has a negative impact on battery life.
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This is plain wrong. Having more RAM may actually improve battery life as the OS has to read less data from disk, as it can cache it in RAM. Reloading an app from disk is not only slower, it requires more CPU (to inflate layouts, maybe make some network calls to retrieve data, ...) than just switching to a memory instance of the app.