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Originally Posted by davef
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Originally Posted by mware
The reduction of RAM and increased in storage ROM is actually a Microsoft initiative. It is to address what they see as two of the biggest concerns.
1. Large amounts of RAM reduces battery performance.
2. Your average Joe user is always letting the battery run flat and losing everything. This is a real pain for corporates.
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These 2 reasons are right on. At MDC, Pat Narendra from Motorola spoke about the fact that Motorola will not be adding more than 32 MB of RAM to any future device because of battery performance. You can see his entire presentation by grabbing these slides: http://www3.mscorpevents.com/mdc/Res...for_Comnet.ppt
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The idea for extra ROM to store programs safely in the event of battery power loss and hard resets, is very smart. I agree with that concept whole-heartedly and have no debate about that part of memory. But apart from ROM, I have to take issue with what you're saying Pat said (or with what Pat did say), for a couple of reasons...
First, on slide 19, it also states to "Look to natural memory progression - 128MB - 256MB for onboard memory. This would seem like a contadiction to what you say Pat said. I mean, not to say that all this extra memory would all be for RAM, of course, but it would make sense to think that at least a portion of it would be.
Second, Moto (as well as others) will put more RAM in their devices, and I'll tell you why. Device software will always need more and more RAM memory to function as time progresses and software becomes increasingly sophisticated, which is the most obvious reason more than 32MB will be required. This is the way it always has been, currently is, and will always be. So for someone to say "there will never be more RAM" is short sighted and silly. Also, improved battery technology and life are already being developed, and when finally introduced, will negate the need for limits on RAM.
When devices first started out, they had hardly no memory, but have continued to grow steadily. This will always be the case with both ROM and RAM.
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