A Surprise in Every iPhone 4

Did you ever notice that when Apple hypes its products the tech specs are not always the focus of that hype. Rather Steve Jobs tends to put out there how wonderful the phone will perform but not necessarily technically why. We simple get revved by the fact that the device, such as th eiPad for example,  is “magical”. In the case of the iPhone Jobs said its“the biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone”.Hardly any consumer can spout out the RAM or Memory or any other tech spec as long as the device works fine.

So perhaps that is why the developers were just about the only ones paying attention at the WWDC when it was revealed that the iPhone 4 actually has 512 MB RAM. When people began receiving their phones, they were pleasantly surprised. That is more RAM than on some PCs. Not even the “lost” iPhones were found with more than the typical 256 MB RAM of the 3GS and the iPad. The iPhone 3G has only 128MB RAM and that is why ios4 can not be supported fully on that device.

This certainly means awesome performance for the new iPhone, its A4 Processor and its many new features and apps (like iMovie for iPhone). It makes a great pitch for purchasing an iPhone4G as opposed to just upgrading to ios4 on a 3GS.  (I will be talking about operations of ios4 on my 3GS in another post.)