RFC: Smartphone for light user

[shreeux]

Which one is considered...as of now, 128GB or 256GB for future proofing?

RAM 8GB or More ?

Why are 5G bands different from mobile to mobile...9 to 13 bands? which one consider?

 

[nac]

Which one is considered...as of now, 128GB or 256GB for future proofing?
RAM 8GB or More ?
Why are 5G bands different from mobile to mobile...9 to 13 bands? which one consider?

I don't need big storage (I have about 6GB of free space in 16GB storage) and it's not gonna affect performance of the phone, so I am going with minimum.

My 2GB phone uses ~90% of memory even when idle. In 2025 brand new phones uses over 2GB just for system & background services and reserved memory. Typical social media apps like whatsapp generally consumes about 0.5GB, this is just a rough guideline we can use. What are the kinda apps we use, how many apps we want in the background (multi tasking) will help figure out the amount of memory we need. I feel like I would be okay with 4GB, but my recent hands-on experience isn't that smooth and I am not sure if it's because of 4GB RAM or the puny D6300 or the heavy UI/skin. So I am going with 6GB, and all 6GB variants comes with a minimum of 128GB, and I am settling for that.

I didn't dig too deep about 5G bands. Samsung and Moto gives more number of bands in this budget, I guess (I am generalizing here). Except few sub 10k phones, all phones in this budget covers popular bands in India. More expensive phones tend to offer more bands, and obviously flagships offer most amount of bands. We can further research the list of bands offered by our service provider/ones available in our area and pick the phone which offers that. I don't know where we can find all those information. If someone who does international travels a lot need to look for bands in that country as well. I am gonna go easy on that and assume the phones in this budget have enough 5G bands.