Apple iPhone 4 to include 512MB of RAM

By on Jun 17, 2010 at 4:47 PM
General June 17, 2010

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While current Android handsets and Windows Mobile phones of yore boast of their prowess, by proclaiming the heftiness of their internal RAM, Apple has been silent on the internal memory included within the various generations of the iPhone. Both the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G shipped with a meager 128MB RAM while the 3GS doubled that capacity with a respectable 256MB. The iPhone 4 was presumed to share the same 256MB capacity; a teardown analysis of a leaked prototype uncovered a 256MB DRAM from Samsung. Prototypes may provide a glimpse of an upcoming product, but their specs are not always written in stone. According to information disclosed by Apple at a WWDC session last week, the latest version of the iPhone will not feature 256MB of RAM, but will instead boast 512MB of RAM. 512MB sounds good to us. How about you?

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  • _Aurel_

    You just posted that over a forum on a tech blog, your argument is invalid.

    • y3k-bug

      @Aurel try reading the source article next time. The info is from an Apple WWDC developer session.

  • http://(null) caediackid3302

    @Scorp,

    I agree! My wife had the 3G and I have the 3GS and there’s a world of difference. I can imagine how well 512MB would run!

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • Bob

    Hmmm, Jesus phone, 512 ram Wtf?

    Right, right right, it can only multi-task certain things an only one or two at a time…and such a tiny screen helps for sure.

    Bah, still fisher price type skill level software in a case for paris hilton and them metro boy types.

    Hear them cry they couldn’t get it in white, I howled.
    Man up or girl down!
    I expect to hear, crashing sounds a lot in the future :)

  • really?

    This is how people in third world countries must feel when they get a new episode of “Who’s the Boss?” How is it that Apple is playing catch up now? 512 ram is not big news people. Welcome to the current line up of Android phones. Maybe one day soon you’ll be able to wifi teather with your killer 2GB data plan. I appreciate what the iPhone did for smartphones a few years ago but nowadays stop treating everything with an apple logo like its revolutionary. iPhones days on top are numbered and the proof is in their lack of innovation.

    • Bob

      The real innovation stops at the marketing departments.
      Once it’s over, it’s done.

      Take a few months off, rape the developers an advertisers, then name the glitches as features an charge for it.

      Rinse an repeat with a new model next year.
      Their falling behind, getting like Rim, dying a long slow death now, it’ll be tough to watch with no blinders on.

  • jgoitom

    At this point in the game i am happy that the iphone did not come to verizon cause this sucks my htc incredible has 748m of ram with 8g of storage that i can upgrade to 16g or 32g when and if they do release the iphone on verizon they will have the best cause by then apple would have put out the a phone that can do every thing i will wait.

  • Sprinter

    Didn’t BGR call the Blackberry 9650′s hardware 1-2 years behind the competition during their review, citing the 512MB of RAM as a weakness?

    Anyway, I see this as alright for the iPhone simply because Apple has always been pretty cheap when it comes to RAM. I remember paying an extra $500 or $600 to upgrade the 512MB of RAM to 1GB (2×512) 6 or 7 years ago on my Powerbook through Apple. That was expensive even back then and even included a student discount.

    • Sprinter

      Oh, and this was the 17″ Powerbook that cost just shy of $3,000 to begin with. Apple is so great at design, but they have always been, at best, just keeping up with their peers as far as memory goes. I’m so used to it at this point that it almost amuses me.

  • Donnation

    @Bob,

    Are you really that ignorant?

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • http://(null) caediackid3302

    Here’s the thing, only 512MB of RAM, but yet it runs so smooth! How come nobody else can do this? They all had to boost to 1gig just to get their phones to run as smooth as the 3GS!

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • Karen

    I don’t seem to have any problems with my 128mb iPhone. Wow. 4 times more would be great.

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  • http://hammes.info Matteo

    It’s bad for the future, crazy world!

  • http://www.twitter.com/samuelleung83 Samuel Leung

    The 256mb RAM from initial leaked information sure did look bad on the comparison charts, ie HTC Android Devices are already bragging 512mb RAM. If steve decides to solder in 512mb it’ll win the hearts of plenty.

  • hoboX10

    Big fucking deal. So they are putting 512 MB of RAM into the phone… the same amount that has been around in phones for a few months. And I’m sure Apple is going to pretend that they are the first to put this much RAM into a phone and think it’s revolutionary.

    By September the iPhone will already be seriously outdated, even though it’s kind of outdated already before it’s even out.

  • Max

    My Commodore 64 in 1982 had 512mb of RAM.

  • Adrian97c

    I read somewhere 256mb 3gs/4 share teh same 256mb

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