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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Come now, I agree that the specs aren't impressive in any way, but 64 MB RAM is certainly enough to function properly with every third party application I can think of - I doubt the kind of person buying a device like this will be the hard-core GPS + Pocket Informant + listening to music at the same time type person that we are here.  |
From my experience with an XDA Orbit with 64MB ram running official WM6 and unofficial WM6.1 after booting you are left with probably under 30MB free ram after the OS loads, add in 3rd party today plugins and you get even less. Check out the Xda Artemis forums and see how even the best rom chefs could only get about 30MB free ram, I dont see the device maker able to achieve this with the tendency to load up all sorts of crap on carrier phones. Load up PIE (Opera will definitely use too many resources) and browse a bit and see how quickly the device becomes unstable because of lack of ram. Then try a simple task like making or receiving a phone call and watch as the system grinds away trying to comply. It really isnt enough to have a positive WM experience without hacking away at your rom and such users probably arent the target audience and all it does is show WM in a bad light which is probably something it doesnt need more of at the moment.