iPhone 4 has twice the RAM of iPad and 3GS
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The new iPhone 4 has twice the RAM of Apple's magical and revolutionary iPad.
When the iPhone 4 was announced, a lot of people were surprised that some features, like iMovie, were exclusive to iPhone 4. Not even the iPad, with its identical A4 processor, was said to be getting all the same apps.
However, it seems the issue is one of hardware, more specifically, RAM. MacRumors reports that while the original iPhone and iPhone 3G boasted 128MB of RAM and the 3GS and iPad had twice that with 256MB, the iPhone 4 has 512MB of RAM.
Though Apple isn't exactly known for releasing the processor speed and RAM of any of its iPhones, the company supposedly confirmed the 512MB at WWDC last week.
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Unfortunately for Apple fans, they have genius marketing team.
Unfortunately for Apple fans, they have genius marketing team.
That's $1 billion minimum that they've managed to part from various fools of varying colors, fruits and adorations...
So what if it is now upscaled by a phone? Apple made a boatload of cash either way...
Sadly, most of my friends don't know that and they won't listen to your recommendations anyway.
I don't care if the iPhone has better specs than the iPad, the screen is too small to be useful for anything other than checking email when out and about.
This news is like saying the iphone can multitask. Multitasking has been the norm for awhile.
Sure Apple can try to reinvent the condom and put a fruit logo on it doesn't mean it was successful technologically.
I agree they made good money but when you undercut your products so quickly like this it'll drive customers away
256MB DDR Ram, 800MHz processor LUL.
Easy, Apple will lure them back with iPad+ with identical set up as the new iPhone 4, just in time for Christmas shopping season. And then the next iPod Touch that's better than the iPad+...then the next iPhone that's better than the iPod...so on and so forth...
The sad thing is people keep falling for this incremental update trick.
Actually most are shipping with 256MB as of today, many (Nexus one, Pre Plus, Evo 4G, to name a few) making the jump to 512MB. Only the lowest end smartphones still use 128.
Huh I think the feat to overcome with the iPad was a marketing one not an engineering one. They're breaking into a new market and releasing a new device.
Why would you complicate that by increasing your production and materials cost right off the bat?
Why would you add more 2x more ram when your not even sure how the device is going to sell?
If the iPad launch failed, you just wasted a bunch of money by adding a bunch of ram, that it doesn't need.
If the iPad lanuch was successful you just wasted a bunch of money by adding a bunch of ram it doesn't need.
That is a very broad statement, and really proved nothing. It's like saying "I can use battery acid to wash my dishes ..." just because you can doesn't mean you should, or that it is the best way to wash your dishes.
My point being that the iPhone4's system for multitasking has already been shown to be not only more intuitive by faster than any other smartphone out there currently.
Just because someone is first doesn't mean they are best.
what are you saying ? yes multitasking is the norm with almost any phone worth having.
I think what the poster you quoted was saying is
"IPHONE 4 is nothing new. All features it presents today are old news.