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Originally Posted by HansTWN
HD2 European/Asian version has 448, US version has 576 (which is why I mentioned T-Mobile HD2). I have to recheck the Evo, it is not out yet. I have read 1 GB. Anyway, we are comparing phones to tablets -- tablets obviously should have a lot more, since it makes sense to run several applications side by side. On my phone I only run, music, TV news, messaging apps, etc in the background.
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How much would you intend running on a tablet, I think for the vast majority of people they would use a similar amount of apps on their phone or a tablet and it would tend to be a similar sort of list to the one you have.
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And it wouldn't cost much to go from 512 to 1024, battery life may be affected, though slightly. Sure you can optimize with 512, but more always will mean faster and smoother operation.
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Battery life will be affected, there is no may about it and unless you actually work in this field then you won't know to what degree, but given that companies don't just keep ramping up the memory on portable devices, doesn't that tend to indicate to you that they have a reason beyond simply cutting costs? If a phone or tablet is more than happy to multitask with 512 then adding more memory would simply be adding costs and reducing battery life for no real benefits in actual usage which seems a fairly poor trade-off just to win some arbitrary pissing contest about specs.