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Just thought a comparison of a few different generations might put things into perspective. It's not the trail blazer I had built up in my mind. It's just another step, but a much needed one and I could use a new toy, that's for sure.
Here is whats happening with my 9000 Just now. I have all my necessary apps installed. The new phone would have plenty of room for the few that I install on occasion like Google Maps. The phone starts to drag a$$ at about 30 and get super slow when it dips into low twenty's. "Free Space" that is.
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08-10-11 01:28 AM - If you look close enough, in almost every video leaked (even ones that are over a month old) show that there is only around 180MB free. People just never really said anything about it because they figured that the test units/old OS's might just be hogging a bit too much of the 768MB and we would see more free when it actually came to market. I am a little stumped about the 180MB free, but I can't say that I am overly angry.. I mean RIM put 768MB in there for a reason and every little bit that we don't see, I'm sure is being put to good use so I'm really not too worried.Testers didn't know 768 would be misleading? I thought I was gonna be in the 500mb range for apps???
Why didn't some of this info get posted by the people with test units. They didnt look at the 188mb of ram and $hit? They didn't do some shrinking?
WHERE ARE THE NUMBERS???
I mean you could also complain that RIM should have put 1GB of memory in it, but think about this too.. They are probably cutting down the cost as much as possible (without damaging the usability of the phone) to throw all the money into their first QNX phones coming early next year. The Bold 99xx seems to run phenomenal with the current memory in there so I'm not mad that RIM didn't throw a gig or more in there just to make people happy because they would see a larger number of free memory. Realistically this phone is going to last about a year with all of us diehard BlackBerry fans then we are all going to upgrade to the QNX phones, which will be when Andriod apps n stuff start becoming available which would be when Memory and everything would actually be IMPORTANT, but lets keep it real guys, the 768MB with 180MB free is completely enough with the current amount of apps readily available for BBOS7 and with their current size. Who knows, maybe I'm just crazy, but It makes sense to me?Last edited by flip4life4751; 08-10-11 at 01:38 AM.
08-10-11 01:33 AM - I'm coming from a phone where I cannot have "all" my apps loaded at once and I am only missing a few or five, but its just so annoying. I think it will be ok, I had 500mb stuck in my head for some reason.
Dreaming about Drinking Bombay Sapphire and Tonic at 4 in the morning loading a billion apps!!!
You know what I'm sayin.
Im not crazy about being a QNX guinea pig either. Second generation, you bet.08-10-11 01:53 AM - @slant ; I think we all know, or many people at least, what Random Access Memory (RAM) and what Read-Only Memory (ROM) is. The thing is, where is BB OS7 installing apps and what are those 188MB?
I for one, use Google Maps, Twitter, FB, Google+ (unavailable for BB
), WLM, Skype (unavailable as well), etc. all the time. If the actual RAM are those 188MB for apps to use whenever they need it, I'm fine with it, that's enough. However, if those 188MB work as storage for apps AND memory then it seems somewhat limited. Granted, we have to test the phone to actually know about real-life performance, and if that dreaded hourglass appears or not.
If I was a mere consumer, after hearing all the fuss that RIM did about the memory and then finding out that there is less than a third available, it would be somewhat disappointing - in sheer hardware numbers, how that translates to performance is yet to be seen.08-10-11 04:51 AM
