iPhone 4 has twice the RAM of iPad and 3GS

[blackened144]

[citation][nom]xxsk8er101xx[/nom]512MB RAM is the norm for smart phones. Mine has 512MB with the droid incredible. This news is like saying the iphone can multitask. Multitasking has been the norm for awhile.[/citation]
Multitasking has been the norm, even on the iPhone. Believe it or not, there has always been an app for that.

 

[CChick]

[citation][nom]jazn1337[/nom]So why get an iPad again?[/citation]

To proof that you're a moron --

oh wait, its magical and revolutionary, maybe u can use it as a magic wand/book and cast harry potter type of magic with it ?

 

[tayb]

I would buy an iPad if it was cheaper. I really don't care if it is "out classed" by a phone or if it is not the most technologically advanced device on the market. Those aren't the things that I care about. I've used it at a store and definitely wouldn't mind having one around the apartment to surf the web, follow my fantasy baseball league, and stream netflix over wi-fi. Can't think of a better handheld device for doing that than the iPad.

 

[towely]

"To proof that you're a moron --"

classic.

 

[athreex]

[citation][nom]xxsk8er101xx[/nom]512MB RAM is the norm for smart phones. Mine has 512MB with the droid incredible. This news is like saying the iphone can multitask. Multitasking has been the norm for awhile.[/citation]


A couple of smartphones only have 512 MB. I don't think 512 MB is the standard. It could be, though, but it's too early for that.

 

[swell9]

I am pretty sure that if Apple made the .......... gadget of all time, it would still sell more than a million copies. Apple Fever...

 

[christopherknapp]

[citation][nom]maigo[/nom]So, you can run bigger apps on the 4 that the 2 month old ipad would really enjoy having.Sounds like a big F U[/citation]

Sounds like you don't know chewy chocolate.

The iPad doesn't need the ability to run iMovie, it doesn't even have a camera.

Why is it that people think that companies make up these inventions like a month before they come out? Do people not realize that the iPad development began over 3 years ago, and most of the technology in the iPhone4 came from over 2 years ago. It's called planning.

 

[Trueno07]

magical and revolutionary iPad.

I must have missed something, is that really the devices full name?

 

[nottheking]

The presence of 512MB of RAM wouldn't surprise me all that much. After all, the design for the A4 doesn't actually utilize any chip designs that AREN'T entire off-the-shelf; the entire "A4" design Apple came up with is entirely in packaging; it uses an ordinary ARM Cortex A8, PowerVR SGX 535 GPU, and on the upper layers, a pair of ordinary DDR chips.

Giving the iPhone 4 twice as much RAM simply requires replacing those 128MB (1-gigabit) chips with 256MB (2-gigabit) chips instead. If Apple actually thought that they wanted a powerful enough phone, theres nothing stopping them from using 512MB (4-gigabit) chips to make it a phone with 1GB of RAM, as I believe those are currently the largest mobile DDR chips available.

[citation][nom]lo_vaquero[/nom]They have supposedly sold 2 million iPads. That's $1 billion minimum that they've managed to part from various fools of varying colors, fruits and adorations...[/citation]
...Except that $1 billion is merely the sale price. Cut out the price of manufcature from there, first. (which, admitedly, isn't all that huge, knowing just how high Apple's markup is compared to other electronics makers) However, then there's also the rediculous amount of money Apple has spent on advertising, as well as the somewhat-less-rediculous amount of money they spent on developing the thing. Once it's all said and done, have they actually made a profit on their little toy, or have they just moved a LOT of money and actually cost themselves doing it?

My bet is that Apple won't be marching much past that 2-million mark before the whole "shiny and new toy" feeling wears off of the iPad, and people start ignoring it in favor of the iPhone 4. And even by then, it's likely that Apple will have had a net loss, after pouring probably SEVERAL billion dollars into it. As a result, Steve Jobs et. al will likely start pretending the iPad never existed.

 

[maxiim]

My HTC EVO 4G has the 512mb ram, and a 1ghz processor. Though the android OS is amazing I still dont believe it is as mature as the iphones os. I do hate the iphone btw and my buddies 3g gets spanked by my evo, and his "new" 3gs also gets spanked.

 

[matt87_50]

pfft, don't care about ram, up the GPU!!!

gpu in A4 == gpu in iphone 3GS. it has 5 times the fill rate of the gpus in the original devices (up to the 3G) but now all the devices have 5 times as many pixels to fill! (4 times for the new iphone)

long story short, expect graphics performance equivalent to the several year old iphone 3G in your new "magical and revolutionary devices" all be it at a higher res...

 

[pwnagehobo]

I watched the iPhone 4 launch vid and lol'd at Steve Jobs trying to blame the audience for a product that is a big pile of fail stuck together with shiny glue and curvy chrome. The other iPhone seemed to handle the wifi devices just fine.

Then Jobs started telling us how video calling is now a reality. He then goes on to say that it only works on wifi.

If you pay 20% of the price of an iPhone 4, you can get a proper phone that actually does videocalling without the need to sit right next to a wireless router.

Meanwhile, suckers all over the globe line up, and sell their kidneys to buy the next "revolutionary" apple product.

For that price, you could buy an actual computer capable of gaming, as well as a phone with full 3G features. So all up, you'd have a more powerful computer, as well as a phone with more actual phone-features.

Having said that, I wish I had pre-ordered one so I could sell it to some sucker on ebay for $5k 😛

 

[jednx01]

I remember back in the day when 512 mb of ram was pretty standard for ram in COMPUTERS. rofl

 

[zaznet]

My wife wants an iPad, it seems like a product she would use and enjoy. I have been holding her back knowing that next year Apple will come out with a far more powerful model. This iPhone 4 release indicates the next iPad could be a bigger jump than hoped for.

 

[techguy378]

[citation][nom]christopherknapp[/nom]What I am saying is that just because there were other phones to "do it first" doesn't mean that they do it best. I was comparing my friends EVO, an original Droid, and the new iPhone4 ... the iPhone4's method for multitasking is not only much more convenient and intuitive but it is faster. Yes, faster than the snapdragon. The bottom line, and the point I was making, is that just because there are other phones that have the ability to multitask doesn't mean that they do it well. A fat kid can run, but that doesn't mean he will win the race.[/citation]
Yet another misinformed Apple fan. The Google Nexus One and its cousins can multitask just as fast as the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4's processor is not significantly faster than the Snapdragon found in phones like the Nexus One. Steve Jobs didn't do multitasking better, he made it worse.

[citation][nom]blackened144[/nom]Multitasking has been the norm, even on the iPhone. Believe it or not, there has always been an app for that.[/citation]
Before iOS 4 multitasking was never possible without voiding your warranty.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Has any one else seen other articles along these lines?

Users report 'fault' on iPhone 4

The issue relates to the mobile phone signal, with users reporting a drop in signal strength when the phone is held.

So long as you don't hold the phone when you use it you'll be fine, just what you need from a handheld device. :lol:

 

[Guest]

To find out that the iPhone 4G has more RAM than the iPad just a few days after buying one really hits the jaw for me. I have an iPod Touch 3rd Gen, and just downloaded the new OS Apple released about 4 days ago. I noticed, after testing it out, that scrolling across pages on it was a bit laggy, compared to the 3.0.1 version I had.

Apple increased the RAM of the iPhone to cope with the OS, which I'm sure will be done for the iPod Touch 4th Gen, when it comes out in Fall. The iPad has the same RAM as my Touch. Why does it not have the same... No... More than the iPhone 4G? Sure, I can understand the fact it was in development for 3 years and it's the first iPad release so far... But surely it's not hard to replace the 2 128MB cards with 2 256MB cards in the A4 chip?

The iPhone 4G has a better resolution screen and higher RAM... Where does the iPad come on top, besides screen size?