Anybody care to school a technologically impaired mother of 3 on all the terminology/specs/what's so cool about this that and the other? I find all this fascinating but admit I am having trouble figuring some stuff out.
I only ask that you speak slowly and use small words.
Here are some basic analogies:
Imagine you're sitting at a desk.
RAM (Random Access Memory) is the desktop. The more RAM, the more stuff you can put on your desktop.
ROM (Read-Only Memory) is your desk's file drawer. When you start a program, it's like taking your email client or browser out of the file drawer and placing it on your desktop so you can use it.
Processor is you. You're the one who takes your stuff out of your file drawer and places them on your desktop. You shuffle the papers around, you stuff things back in the drawer.
A faster processor is you jacked up on Mountain Dew - with caffeine in your system you work faster. You shuffle papers faster, you put things in and out of your file drawer faster.
WiMax is your interaction with your office staff. On slower connections, your office staff take their sweet time bringing you the stuff you asked for, and then tell you about it at a leisurely pace.
With WiMax, you ask for it, and it's sorta like the butler in Mr. Deeds, instantly there before you turn around. Sneaky, sneaky. You send them away to do a project, and they're back before you know it, and you wonder how they could be done already.
Screen size - well, that's your window to the world. The bigger your office window, the more you can see. Other phones are like a ship's porthole, while the EVO is like having a glass wall in your office so you can see everything going on outside.