While tech pundits are getting all moist about the idea, the question is “why on earth do you need 8GB of Ram in smartphone?” is not getting answered.

Next year we are certain to see 2016 flagships sporting 6-8GB of RAM, according to sources in China.

Chinese analyst Pan Jiutang suggest that Qualcomm's Snapdragon 830 system on chip (SoC) can support these higher levels or RAM, so it shouldn't be a problem for manufacturers to implement.

However this does appear to be a hardware spec which is not required. At the moment smartphones are running the same clock speed as computers from about seven years ago. True the graphics requirement is greater, but the software pressure on the hardware is not great.

Many people can run their new PCs with a fairly comfortable 4GB of Ram and 8GB is only required for power users. For everything that I have said about Apple, the outfit has a more pragmatic attitude to RAM. iPhones have always had less RAM than their Android competitors and managed to do rather well.

Increased RAM will just look good on the spec sheet. It will, for a number of years, be pretty much useless.

But what is a worry is that the existence of high ram machines might encourage developers to be lazy and rely on it. At the moment, with most machines running 1GB, they have to be damn careful.