Originally Posted by
andytug
You can never have too much RAM, get as much as you can afford. Certain apps will only use internal memory (BBC iPlayer downloads being one, irritatingly) so the more you have the better.
I've just upgraded from an 8Gb Android to a 16Gb version, and also have a 64Gb SD card in it, mainly for music. The 8Gb one was always close to full on the internal memory even with as many apps as possible shifted to SD.
I think you are confusing RAM with storage space. RAM (Random Access Memory) is dynamic memory that is used by the operating system and any running apps to read and write data to, a typical mobile phone might have between 1 - 4 GB and anything stored in RAM is lost when the device is powered off. Storage is persistent memory used to store your operating system, apps and data, this is not lost when the device is powered off and a typical mobile phone might have anywhere from 8 - 128 GB.
Although more RAM is generally a good thing it is technically incorrect to say you can never have too much as any operating system will have a limit to how much RAM it can address and having more than that limit is completely pointless as it would never be used.