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It would make memory-poor phones more viable. Like why can't we have a 512MB, or even 256MB RAM phone. Although I doubt that the software effort would be cheape
by H8crilA 4mo ago
It would make memory-poor phones more viable. Like why can't we have a 512MB, or even 256MB RAM phone. Although I doubt that the software effort would be cheaper than just buying the extra RAM. It's definitely much more uncertain.
- zozbot234 4mo agoThose exist, they're just feature phones. Smartphones have to run general purpose apps and that takes RAM.
- H8crilA 4mo agoThat was my point, make it so that apps can run on that RAM budget. At least some apps.
- pabs3 4mo agoThe OpenMoko Freerunner only had 128MB RAM, it was able to run a Linux desktop of the time, Englightenment/E16. There were lots of apps for it too. IIRC the cut down QtMoko distro ran best though. https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_Freerunner https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_Freerunner https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Applications https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Applications https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/QtMoko https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/QtMoko Before that Linux ran on the Zaurus too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenZaurus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenZaurus