The smartphone market has developed into a competitive industry due to the numerous brands competing for market share. Also, as competition fosters innovation, it benefits consumers greatly. Not all innovation, though, is beneficial
To entice customers, smartphone manufacturers frequently add useless features. In this article, we’ll look at a few of these features so you can avoid falling for them.
Ram expansion
It is debatable whether RAM expansion is genuinely advantageous. Yet, some businesses use it to deceive clients into believing their phone has more memory than it actually does. The function assigns a portion of a phone’s storage to serve as virtual RAM. The option is currently activated by default on phones which is funny because it might be handy for phones with 4GB or less RAM, but it is useless for phones with higher RAM.
Depth camera
Depth cameras appeared at the same time as the portrait mode trend, which involved blurring the background of a subject to produce an appearance akin to bokeh on DSLRs. These cameras assisted the primary cameras in distinguishing between the subject of an image and the phone.
Nevertheless, as computational photography improved, depth cameras became obsolete, and phones used software or other lenses instead to create the illusion of depth.
144Hz refresh rate
Our eyes have been accustomed to the fluidity that the refresh rate delivers as 120Hz has become more widely used, and it is now unusual to go back. Increasing the refresh rate will likely result in smoother gameplay. The answer is provided by 144Hz screens, which are very difficult to distinguish from 120Hz displays. 144Hz is another function your phone may go without because spending battery life on such insignificant advantages makes no sense.
RAM cleaner
Since Android has developed into a highly effective operating system, it manages which apps to keep in memory and which ones to delete flawlessly. As a result, RAM cleanup apps that many phones ship with could be more helpful. They are simply another technique to bombard you with more adware on Chinese phones, where they are frequently mislabeled as “Security” apps.
The fact that they, or at least the third-party RAM cleanup apps, might be eliminated entirely on Android 14 may give some insight into how ineffective they are.
8K Video
A typical minute-long 8K video consumes more than 600MB of storage, twice as much as a 4K video and four times as much as a 1080p video. That isn’t very encouraging, mainly because there is only a slight improvement in the 8K video over the 4K video. Also, there need to be more 8K displays available to warrant recording at that quality.
Cheap macro cameras
It’s possible that the 2MP macro camera lens on your phone was added for the same purpose as the depth sensor, increasing the number of cameras. Even if they are cheap, adding extras means the camera cost is passed on to the customer. Crop into an image taken with your primary lens rather than a 2MP macro (unless you use a feature like a microscope on the Oppo Reno 8T).
