For me i can care less what smartphone it is as long as i can check the net, email, call, text, check my callendar, take pics and videos, and tehther i am set. The most important thing is my network. Network does not work or spotty then the battle is lost. The os, retina display, ram , etc is worthless due to the screen size.
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iPhone 4 Confirmed to Have 512MB of RAM (Twice the iPad and 3GS)
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For me i can care less what smartphone it is as long as i can check the net, email, call, text, check my callendar, take pics and videos, and tehther i am set. The most important thing is my network. Network does not work or spotty then the battle is lost. The os, retina display, ram , etc is worthless due to the screen size.
So all of the people that were touting the HTC EVO from Sprint because it had more memory than the iphone 4, I guess will now have to make a public retraction right. Looks like both phones will have the same memory.
A4 is redesigned for iPhone 4. Another photo shows the 1005 capacitors(1.0mm x 0.5mm sized capacitor) are the same size.
In a year after the first iPad the new one will most likely come with a front facing camera, 1GB RAM and a newer A4 processor, probably the A4.5 [half of the ARM Cortex 9 numbering seeing as the A4 is half the ARM Cortex 8]
And in three years you'll think that revision is slow. That's computing.
Huh.? Ipads don't compete with phones... Ipads have a big screen....they don't make calls.. You don't need a contract with AT&T to use one.... Not everybody wants or needs an iPhone but they may want a tablet device...
iPhone kills iPad
This is why I took my iPad back after a week. The iPhone 4 only is missing a large display over the iPad but the retinal display should make up for a lot of the lost screen size. And it makes phone calls, has two cameras, and is small enough to handhold.
I found the iPad to be too bulky for handholding a long time and hey, it really is just a big iPod Touch. Maybe by iPad 4 it will be worth having.
This is why I took my iPad back after a week. The iPhone 4 only is missing a large display over the iPad but the retinal display should make up for a lot of the lost screen size. And it makes phone calls, has two cameras, and is small enough to handhold.
I found the iPad to be too bulky for handholding a long time and hey, it really is just a big iPod Touch. Maybe by iPad 4 it will be worth having.
Amen to that! Finally some sanity in this place...
My wife, has a Macbook pro, iMac, iPad, an Apple TV and we ordered replacement iPhones for both of us yesterday (currently we have 3G)... like most of the users, She loves every single one of them and couldnt care less about which one has 256 and which one has 512 of RAM... They do what she expect from those devices... period, I invite those who are debating whether iPad is yesterday news because OTHER device has more RAM to send them my way, I will dispose of those "outdated" devices properly...
True. I just don't like it when people say, "the company confirmed it." I prefer, "X, the lead developer for the iPhone Whatever Team, confirmed for us that the iPhone 4 has 512MB."
In any case, this is great news, though, - as others have stated -, I'm sad my iPad doesn't have 512MB, which was obvious to me the day I started using it and reviewing it.
People are not mad about the ram differance from the ipad vs the iphone if it hadtaken place in a 9 month time frame. It took place in a few months. Apple is not a very fast company. Look thay continue to use core 2 duo in their mac minis, imacs, and mb. The reason the apple upd the ainty for the iphone with specs was in direct correlation with the android competition. Hopefully there are some chromium pads so that apple will increase the specs on the ipad significantly like camera and ram. End result, You really need to embrace competition since it helps create a better overall system.
All that means is the package is different. No way to tell if the die is the same until someone removes the package, but it probably is.
I have an iPad 3G, and it works fine for me. And I bought it knowing that it had 256MB RAM, and what the implications of that were.
No reason to be considering it's not that hard to sell an iPad right now for almost retail price.
Not correct since the extra ram would decrease the need for the ipad to page reload especially when multitasking comes to the ipad. More ram would increase the 10 hour amount by a few minutes to an extra hour.
I love my iPad, and the release of the iPhone 4 hasn't made those feelings wane. Yes, it would have been great to have 512MB in there, but no way I'd wait another year for the inevitable update considering the enjoyment I'm having with my iPad right now. No way.
Glad I pre-ordered the iPhone 4, and glad I decided to wait for generation 2 (or later) of the iPad.
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Where was it said that the A4 was redesigned for the iPhone? If it has been, I haven't read anything about it. All I recall is Steve Jobs saying something about the iPhone 4 using the A4 from the iPad.
Well lets put this in perspective. Would you ahve waited two months to get an ipad with 512 mb of ram instead of the butchered 256 mb of ram that the 3gs has?
Every two years memory gets cheaper (denser so need few chips to deliver same amount) so not going to be too surprising to see a doubling in year two. It isn't the what stage the iPad is at it is what the memory maturity cycle is on. I think Apple thought at some stage would ship iPad perhaps several months earlier than they did. So they picked a memory size that made sense for a 2008-9 time frame. The design for iPad2 would have picked a memory size that made sense for a 2010-2011 time frame; that would be 512MB.
Extremely unlikely. There have been 300+ppi 2 inches displays previously. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_displays_by_pixel_density#Devices_sorted_by_size) Apple's display is not the first one shipped at over 300+ ppi, nor was it the first to be that range and be at least 3.0 inches. It is the first one shipped in quantity at 3.5 inches and over 300+ ppi. It has taken a long time to jump from 3.0 to 3.5 inches and still be affordable.
No way display tech is suddenly going to jump to 9.7 inches ( an almost 3x jump in diagonal size.). The LCD panel itself would cost more than the iPad.
The current iPad screen is 132 ppi. If doubled that it would be 265 ppi. You'd have to triple the density to get it up over 300+ ppi. Not going to happen next year. Also, typically going to use the iPad farther away than iPhone screen. Perhaps that lets you slide with 265 ppi but that is a huge leap in density over a much larger area with acceptably few errors in manufacturing.
We'll see. Depends in part on what FaceTime is using as your "automagic" combo "user id" and contact address". If it is phone number there is a problem. The iPad doesn't have one.