Many brands today offer a so-called extended RAM feature, using part of your phone’s storage as virtual memory. The feature is known as extended RAM, RAM Plus, memory extension, or RAM Boost, ...

Virtual memory, also known as a Page file, adds to the physical RAM by using disk space. However, moving the page file to a secondary SSD can help free up space if you run out of space on the primary.

Smartphones now ship with 12 GB, 16 GB, or even 24 GB of RAM, capacities once reserved for high-end PCs. This raises a question. Do flagship Android phones need this much memory? I'll walk through how ...