01-24-2006, 04:00 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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MTekk Reviews the O2 Xda Atom
"The time finally arrived when my new O2 XDA Atom was delivered to my door, and after a few days of playing, I am ready to start this review. Over the past month, many users on MTekk have received their Atoms, and this has resulted in hundreds of posts! The purpose of this review is to summarise these posts, as well as add my own opinions, and showcase the newest arrival in the O2 product range."
The O2 Xda Atom (released in the Asia-Pacific in December) has just been reviewed by MTekk. Some stand-out features of the device: Wi-Fi, ultra-small form factor, FM tuner, 2.0-megapixel camera, and O2 MediaPlus (a Media Center-like interface). If you're one of the few who own an Atom, do share your thoughts on the device.
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01-24-2006, 09:55 PM
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Sage
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That Atom looks sweet! 
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01-24-2006, 11:18 PM
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Oracle
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Originally Posted by From the Review
The compressed operating system, radio stack and other firmware occupy about 54MB of ROM, leaving about 72MB left. The remaining 72MB is divided into Program memory and Storage memory. Program memory has 50.4MB allocated, and the remaining 21.6MB allocated to Storage memory.
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I don't think this guy really understands what he is talking about. He is saying that the ROM is divided into program and storage, but the program memory is actually RAM, not ROM.
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01-25-2006, 01:15 AM
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Philosopher
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Originally Posted by MitchellO
I don't think this guy really understands what he is talking about. He is saying that the ROM is divided into program and storage, but the program memory is actually RAM, not ROM.
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Isn't the Atom a WM5 device and as such I thought that programs are installed into ROM rather than RAM?
In which case the review would be correct - or have I miss understood?
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01-25-2006, 02:32 AM
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Oracle
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Yes it is WM5 and yes user files/programs are stored in ROM, but the program memory is RAM, not a divided part of the ROM like the reviewer says.
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01-25-2006, 08:11 AM
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Neophyte
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MitchellO is correct - This is my mistake.
Going from the O2 Atom manual, main memory is explained as follows:
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The Main tab displays the amount of memory the system has allocated to file and data storage versus program storage. This tab also displays the amount of memory in use versus available memory
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From this description, I believed the Program Memory was part of the 128MB of ROM, but after reading MitchellO's comment, I looked further and found that shutting down running programs changes the amount of Program Memory available.
The ROM is divided into two sections, and this is visible during installation of software. Here, the sections are defined as Device and Storage (with Memory Card shown if inserted). The Device storage is everything under the root directory, and Storage / Memory Card is shown as storage folders. From this split of ROM memory, I didn't look much further into the Storage and Program Memory relationship...
My apologies.
Now to ammend the review....
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01-25-2006, 08:19 AM
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Oracle
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Hey no problem
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01-25-2006, 08:26 AM
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Neophyte
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Sweet! The last thing I wanted was to mislead anyone...
Now I am scratching my head thinking how to re-write that paragraph...
Hmmm....
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01-25-2006, 08:31 AM
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Oracle
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Originally Posted by recrem
Sweet! The last thing I wanted was to mislead anyone...
Now I am scratching my head thinking how to re-write that paragraph...
Hmmm....
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Memory is organised into ROM and RAM - similar to older devices, with the exception that all program and data are stored in ROM. It has 128MB of ROM and 64MB of RAM. The compressed operating system, radio stack and other firmware are stored in ROM, as is the users data like Calender, Contacts and files. The remaining ROM (about 22Mb) is available to the user for storage.
Program memory refers the the devices RAM. Although it has 64Mb RAM, not all of this is available to the user. The system reserves about 14Mb of space for use by the operating system, so 50Mb remains. Even then a futher few Mb are taken up on startup to leave considerably less than the stated 64Mb
This memory allocation is fixed, and can't be adjusted like older devices could be.
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01-25-2006, 08:37 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Haha - that looks good, but the job has been done already.. Sorry :wink:
Thanks for helping me keep it correct!
Regards,
Dan...
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