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Originally Posted by boualem
LG EVE has 150MB RAM and 512MB ROM (Confirmed by LG)
Hence the phone is upgradeable to Android donut (1.6) or Eclair (2.0/2.1)
However since RAM is a bit anemic, I'm not sure how the phone will behave with the OS upgrade.
My guess is that if you have few applications downloaded and if one is not running a lot of applications concurrently the User experience should be fine.
However if one has Tens/hundreds of apps with many of them running concurrently (Widgets, Media player, other apps) the phone will not be very responsive.
Remember that we are talking about essentially Java apps running in a JVM. Garbage collection may have to run more often to to free up memory space. There is a limit to what can be optimized with 150MB
LG/Rogers should offer the LG Eve owners an upgrade to 2.0/2.1 or at least 1.6 while letting them know that the User Experience may suffer.
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I'm baffled by the decision to have 150MB ( I understand the cost factors: tens of cents x few million phones= some good saving).
G1 had 192MB of RAM and HTC must have decided that it wasn't enough and had it upgraded to 288 in G2 (HTC Magic).
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I'm wondering if that 150MB of RAM is what is available to the user? If someone with an eve could check to see how much space they have available on their phone that would tell. If they don't have many apps yet and have over 100MB remaining it would indicate that the phone has more RAM than what's listed, the remainder of which is reserved for the OS and swap.
on G1 of that 192 only 92 is available to the user.
gbd