Comments on: The importance of RAM and a hope for Monday http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2009/06/the-importance-of-ram-and-a-hope-for-monday/ Original comment and commentary, with a UK focus. Not another cut 'n' paste news site. Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Matt Radford http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2009/06/the-importance-of-ram-and-a-hope-for-monday/#comment-4102 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:21:57 +0000 http://www.allaboutiphone.net/?p=2249#comment-4102 Lack of RAM is one of the main things slowing the iPhone at moment, and it looks poor in comparison to the iPod Touch. I’ve certainly noticed a slow down since first getting the original iPhone. Apple needs to both include more RAM in the hardware, and release more free RAM in software. Fingers crossed we get both in today’s annoucement.

Oh, and thanks Nikolay for the detail on your iPhone’s RAM usage.

]]> By: antonioj http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2009/06/the-importance-of-ram-and-a-hope-for-monday/#comment-4096 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:12:07 +0000 http://www.allaboutiphone.net/?p=2249#comment-4096 Nokia did not change things with the n95. The n95 has total 64mb of ram, and was plagued with RAM problems with several firmwares improving the situation untill it reached around 30mb of free RAM. Sony Ericsson did not do the same with the p990, same total RAM, under 20mb of free RAM after boot. But both nokia and SE corrected situation with the n95 8gb and p1, both with total 128mb RAM (like the iPhone 3g), and more than 70 mb of RAM free after boot

]]> By: James Burland http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2009/06/the-importance-of-ram-and-a-hope-for-monday/#comment-4095 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:17:21 +0000 http://www.allaboutiphone.net/?p=2249#comment-4095 I don’t know if it’s intentional, or even if it’s just my iPhone, but I’ve noticed that recently my iPhone restarts itself just before a sync. I wonder if this is in an effort to clear out memory on phones that don’t get manually restarted very often.

I’m certain that Apple will increase that size of the RAM with the next models. It certainly seems as if it’s going to get a processor speed increase, so not increasing the size of the free RAM footprint would be just crazy.

]]> By: Nikolay Andreev http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2009/06/the-importance-of-ram-and-a-hope-for-monday/#comment-4094 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:53:08 +0000 http://www.allaboutiphone.net/?p=2249#comment-4094 Yes, I agree 100%. Apple should have installed 256MB RAM on the iPhone 3G. I guess they just underestimated demmand for RAM or were just forcing compatibility with the iPhone 2G
Or were just trying to make sure developers will learn to code great Apps for little RAM, then upgrade the hardware and make the Apps fly 😉

Anyway, I just hope they somehow make it easy for every developer to make his App save its current state on Quit, or maybe leave the last 5 accessed Apps stay in memory or something, kind of how the iPod App works now.

Currently, the iPhone runs 1 Apps at all times and its has Max of 46MB free RAM, which means the Phone App takes about 14MB. So Adding another 128RAM would be like quadrupling the available free space on the iPhone.

Couple that with 50% faster processor and I’d bet Apps would zap faster than on version 1.0

One RAM tip. Setting the mail APP to check email Manually saves you 3MB of RAM as it registers as background process when mail is checked automatically.

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