I'm really happy to hear this. All along I thought Apple would not have the iPhone above the iPad performance wise. It appears I was wrong. Looks like it will be up to par with the EVO afterall.
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iPhone 4 Confirmed to Have 512MB of RAM (Twice the iPad and 3GS)
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Plus we will have had a year to enjoy our iPads while the petulant spec obsessed pouters wait.Given the resale value of even an iPhone 3G the cost of a year of iPad bliss will turn out to be quite reasonable.
Too soon.It would be crazy to produce a design for 6 months.Don't hold your breath.
What would be the point of that? There's no camera on the iPad and if Apple were to add a camera it would be pretty awkward to film much holding that thing up.
would it be possible that apple would clock the ram speed down? or they can only do that with the processor?
From what I've read here and elsewhere, iOS4 seems to fix this. Pages in Safari reload not at all, or far less on 3GS devices.
You can't slow down the refresh. It's dynamic ram, so if you don't refresh it at regular intervals, it loses its contents.
Yes you can, you just can't slow it down too much. If you slowed it enough to lose contents the RAM would be so slow it would be practically unusable.
Twice of the RAM of the iPad - in a phone...
Putting a miserable 256MB unit into a tablet device is already proving to be embarrassing. I love the new iPhone and I still don't understand the logic behind crippling the iPad as it has been. People tend to argue that the next generation will be great - I'd say with the current product, we are lucky if 3rd or 4th generation will be living up to the real potential of a tablet device.
Putting a miserable 256MB unit into a tablet device is already proving to be embarrassing. I love the new iPhone and I still don't understand the logic behind crippling the iPad as it has been. People tend to argue that the next generation will be great - I'd say with the current product, we are lucky if 3rd or 4th generation will be living up to the real potential of a tablet device.
Then why the **** did you bring it up?
All I know is you can slow RAM frequency down and overclock it.
Then why the **** did you bring it up?
All I know is you can slow RAM frequency down and overclock it.
The reason changing RAM frequency was mentioned was in regard to power consumption. Power consumption of DRAM (and SDRAM) is determined both by how often you read and write, as well as how often you refresh. While you can change the synchronous clock used in SDRAM (dram is not synchronous), you cannot change the refresh clock very much (not at all if you use autorefresh, which is what you want to do) or the RAM won't work.
So I brought it the "****" up because it answered the dude's question. Okay?
Everything Ive run on it runs great.It's quicker than my 3GS.As someone else said,the main reasons for 512 on the phone are probably the display and iMovie.My advice?Use it,enjoy it,and if rev2 has the retina display,512+cameras or whatever else,sell it and get the new one.As someone said,the upgrade will probably only end up costing $200 or so.
Great news - with the larger textures the new resolution will require, 256MB would likely have been a major bottleneck.
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It is on like Donkey Kong!
512MB of ram is so sweet!
My gut has always told me to steer clear of the iPad for at least a year, and now I know why. I'll be getting the iPhone 4 next Thursday, and I AM NOT SURPRISED, that it has this much ram. It mops the floor with the silly iPad.
With 512MB of memory, this little device is going to bring it. It's on like Donkey Kong!
512MB of ram is so sweet!
My gut has always told me to steer clear of the iPad for at least a year, and now I know why. I'll be getting the iPhone 4 next Thursday, and I AM NOT SURPRISED, that it has this much ram. It mops the floor with the silly iPad.
With 512MB of memory, this little device is going to bring it. It's on like Donkey Kong!
Yeah! And I'm pissed that I have to pay for the iPhone!!! And what about those bastards at AT&T and their charging for service? How ridiculous is that?!
I think supermarkets should be giving away candy bars for free.... After all, I'm paying for the milk and the eggs!
Mark
Not sure what to make of it really. I get the whole "tech marches on", but it doesn't move that quickly, especially when the iPad is positioned to be more of a suitable gaming device than the iPhone, and has just recently been launched in some areas.
With the recent AT&T bait and switch, and now this, my iPad may be heading to ebay. I might buy another down the road when Apple and its data provider gets their act together, but it just seems like one disappointment after another for early adopters.
With the recent AT&T bait and switch, and now this, my iPad may be heading to ebay. I might buy another down the road when Apple and its data provider gets their act together, but it just seems like one disappointment after another for early adopters.
iphone to have 512 ram?
is this article true i heard it was half of that
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/06/17/apple-iphone-4-to-have-512-mb-of-ram.html
is this article true i heard it was half of that
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/06/17/apple-iphone-4-to-have-512-mb-of-ram.html
512MB of ram is so sweet!
My gut has always told me to steer clear of the iPad for at least a year, and now I know why. I'll be getting the iPhone 4 next Thursday, and I AM NOT SURPRISED, that it has this much ram. It mops the floor with the silly iPad.
With 512MB of memory, this little device is going to bring it. It's on like Donkey Kong!
This is win