Have you ever worried about how long it will take for your phone to run out of memory? With this new trend that software vendors want to provide long-term support, phone hardware life expectancy rates are seriously questioned today. The lifespan of storage chips decreases as the chip is used, but until then there was no way to directly measure its condition. Here’s the good news: Android 15 is introducing just such a change.
Google has developed a companion app called “Device Diagnostics” that will give you access to all the internal components hidden in your device. Although both applications indicate battery life extension, this app will estimate the life of the storage device as a percentage. So you can avoid potential storage problems in the future by looking ahead and gradually upgrading your software.
It displays the amount of storage available to the user so that it can correspond to the car’s odometer. Although not every phone will prove this data with extreme accuracy (say, your phone may show 10% degrees instead of 1%), still, this is still a huge milestone towards the improvement of smartphones. Users of tablets, smartphones, and all Pixel devices running Android 15 will certainly be in a privileged position to enjoy this feature as the first group of users after the official release.
This unique feature sharpens the understanding of its meanings as soon as we start looking at real data. The Base Storage API silently inspects the phone’s memory management, i.e. keeps track of any unavailable memory blocks. Excessive cleaning can be a nuisance and, if not done correctly, can often damage the lifespan of the chip. Due to this, APIs have been developed for such a purpose.
Although the factories’ collaborative support is still in the process of getting up to speed, Android OS 15 will ease the way to a future where we’ll take control of what’s going on inside our phones. It emerges as a kind of self-help in taking measurements of our phones and about them, or out of mental responsibility for the growing importance of this part of our lives.
