Comes down to whether or not the Nubia is their current flagship or will we see an Axon 7 successor with 6-8gb RAM. RAM isn't everything. I was really disappointed at first with 4gb in the S8, but the S8 is a great phone, so 4gb is fine for me.
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Comes down to whether or not the Nubia is their current flagship or will we see an Axon 7 successor with 6-8gb RAM. RAM isn't everything. I was really disappointed at first with 4gb in the S8, but the S8 is a great phone, so 4gb is fine for me.
yeah, I really wanted to try the Axon 7 but held off. Right now, the Nubia is just sold in China? Any word on a US launch or would an Axon essentially be the US version?
Big battery isn't everything. S8+ has a huge screen, and that alone is the biggest battery drainer of all.
Optimisation is important as is battery size. Sony used to do great work with 2600 mAh battery. Not even S8+ is good enough for Z3c.
That would be one hell of a phone. But not for me. Too large (5.8"), and coupled with 8GB of ram = battery consumption to the max. Ceramic or any kind of glass phone = breaks easily.
Not everyone wants what you want. That is why all these companies make compromises, so they can adjust to most peoples wishes. You are complaining about battery life, well, OnePlus 3T has great battery life. Best battery life of all flagship phones released last year.
You have easy root access on OP3/T. Install custom kernel + custom rom, and you will have 7 - 10 h screen on time, without any problems. XDA is full of forum posts about this. So you see, if OP3T can achieve that amount of SoT, with some tweaks from you, battery capacity isn't everything.
And even without tweaks, I was getting 5h-6h without any issues. 4 mails in sync, WA, bluetooth and location services always on. And I listen to a lot of audio books or music using bluetooth, so that drains battery as well without adding more minutes or hours to SoT.
Excited to see what they reveal this month, if they go for a bezeless design and a 5.5" screen, that will be a pretty compact phone potentially.
Because 8gb phones will sell better than 6 in China and Samsung released a model with 6 for that market. It's not need, it's want.
More RAM means something. In OnePlus 3T, I never had to deal with app reloading. And that makes a phone WAY faster then phones with less ram. Only iOS can do well with less RAM, since it has great memory compression.
Just look at this. Two same phones, but look at the difference:
But what I would love to see is, does S8+ with 6GB of ram hold those apps in memory even after 30mins. In my experience with (lousy) samsung memory management, it is way too aggressive. Most apps aren't kept in memory after a short period of time, even though there is a lot of free ram left.
However going forward with Android O and further Google are set to implement memory management / backgrounded applications to work in a similar fashion to iOS and therefore reduce the overall demand outside obviously manufacturers skins. Added to the way they are planning to make Android updates speedier universally too, the 'extra ram = improved memory management performance" may not have much of an impact with devices in the future once a 'sweet spot' is achieved.
I signed up for their pop up event here on June 21st in Amsterdam, I live less then 10 minutes from that pop up store. I might buy one that day, they will also have free/cheap goodies that day. 
My biggest interest is the camera too. I mean that is all this company has lacked so far is a killer camera.
I signed up for their pop up event here on June 21st in Amsterdam, I live less then 10 minutes from that pop up store. I might buy one that day, they will also have free/cheap goodies that day.
I did the same for the Helsinki event
I think there will be some goodies indeed and I think I'll be returning to being a OnePlus owner
Plus waterproofing, although they've stated that the phones should survive everyday elements such as rain. Anyway, a good camera would definitely be welcome.
Well, you can't have everything. I think I can live with less than original or groundbreaking design if I get dual-SIM, mobile payments and a good camera in a package that's closer to 500 than 1000 Euros.