Comments on: iPhone 3G S Speeds and Feeds Revealed: 256MB RAM, 600Mhz CPU

By: Ben Clare

Ben Clare — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:01:28 +0000

256MB of ram! I remember not too long ago when computers were built with that much ram. With even better battery just adds to the +.

By: iDavey

iDavey — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:41:44 +0000

@antonioj

Don't count on it. The ARM Cortex A8 uses more power than previous processor. If you would like to see what happens to battery life after multitasking is added...look at the Pre. In theory...because the processor speeds things up and gets the iPhone into standby quicker thats what lets it preserve battery life. Throw in constant multitask (not unlike the Pre) then you get battery life like the Pre

By: antonioj

antonioj — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:43:11 +0000

With 256mb of RAM and better battery, multitasking will probably show up in OS 4.0

By: ForbiddenB

ForbiddenB — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:12:29 +0000

iPhone 3G will become obsolete as more high-end games will start to use the fast processing speed and high capacity ram that 3G couldn’t handle.

By: iDavey

iDavey — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:30:59 +0000

@John

Not speaking on the "compilation" of apps. The iPhone would have to have more apps than the Pre I hope.

But you are right with the multitasking bit. But from just current apps...they seem to possess the visual appeal and functionality of apps in the App Store. So even with that...

By: john

john — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:13:59 +0000

So with this put out there that the Pre and iPhone has the exact same CPU and GPU… we know that they both can basically push the same limits on apps.

Not quite - Pre uses HTML and Javascript for apps...in addition, lots of resources are used for supporting multitasking.

iphone has compiled apps. so the 3gs will smoke the Pre.

By: iDavey

iDavey — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:21:57 +0000

o_O @ Shirk LOL

But I was speaking in replacing Adobe as a Flash provider for the iPhone. I remember reading that somewhere...don't remember where though.

By: Jeremy Sikora

Jeremy Sikora — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:21:38 +0000

Funny I remember telling people this just the other day, regarding double the RAM, and many doubted me. You know who you are…

By: iShirk

iShirk — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:16:26 +0000

@idavey, your kidding right?…

Quicktime has been there since 1.0 And was optimized in 2.0

This coming from a p o r n lover

By: iDavey

iDavey — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:23:30 +0000

@Rene

I heard that they might be trying to find a way to implement Quicktime into the iPhone. Is that true?