512mb of ram...

[studIOS5]

This morning as I made my morning commute to school, I got all exited to use my brand new spotify app. Now I am one that believes that the multitasking system on the iphone is genius and that it preserves battery life, all while doing exactly what you want it to do, multitask. You're not going to know if an app is paused if it is in the background and not in use. However, god forbid, if another app is running in the background and you are doing other tasks such as checking mail or receiving a text I am finding that my iphone is having a hard time keeping up. Now, correct me if I am wrong, and this is a carrier issue, but while I was listening to spotify on my way to school this morning, every time I received an email or a text message, my music from the spotify app would pause/ skip. This is quite the annoyance. I have never run into a problem like that until now.

ok, rant OVER thanks for your time

 

[blue43fan]

Sounds more like spotty coverage to me.

 

[Nde]

What makes you think that 1GB would resolve your problem? Can you provide any scientific facts?

 

[studIOS5]

I did have full bars of 3g coverage as I do ever morning when driving to school. Also, I have no scientific evidence that supports that to upgrade to 1gb of ram would solve anything, I'm just so used to having apple products "just work" and this was just a little disappointing thats all. I'm not trying to start a fight here, just pointing out a shortcoming from apple in a sense that they can put more ram in their products, but they choose not to. perhaps this is because they feel it isn't needed, or some other unknown reason. either way., it was disappointing. thats all

 

[sinsin07]

User Error

 

[blue43fan]

I did have full bars of 3g coverage as I do ever morning when driving to school. Also, I have no scientific evidence that supports that to upgrade to 1gb of ram would solve anything, I'm just so used to having apple products "just work" and this was just a little disappointing thats all. I'm not trying to start a fight here, just pointing out a shortcoming from apple in a sense that they can put more ram in their products, but they choose not to. perhaps this is because they feel it isn't needed, or some other unknown reason. either way., it was disappointing. thats all

I can absolutely guarantee you that 512mb of RAM is enough to play music and do other things at the same time. One huge drawback of installing more RAM than is needed, battery life suffers. Especially on mobile devices. I'm willing to bet either the stream didn't buffer correctly, or maybe you encountered a glitch.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/12/ram-energy

 

[Type X]

I'd be more worried about service in Location: Oregon, OH before the ram in a new device.

 

[studIOS5]

Oregon is very close to Toledo and I have excellent AT&T coverage in my area, so I'm not too worried about that. and also thanks blue43fan for clearing that up..i had no idea it had such an effect on battery and i really hope its a glitch

 

[protobiont]

How much ram does the 4 have? I've used spotify quite a bit on that phone and never run into any issues while multitasking.

 

[studIOS5]

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It has 512mb of ram