[HTC Sensation] Restrected:
About that RAM issue.

since for 4 whole pages everyone is so abscessed with the RAM issue on the htc sensation 4g, well, i have owned it and a bunch of other phones for quite some time and here it is.

is the 756mb ram to little for the htc sensation? YES!!!!! it is.

the galaxy s2 has 1gb ram, 4 channel access. what it means is that it accesses data on ram 33% faster than the htc sensation.

it has 33% more memory, which again means more usable.

if you run benchmarks to see access speeds, you will see that the samsung has the lead by 40%.

most people think that is the type of ram, it is not, its actually the ram configuration. having 3 x 256mb ram chips is not the same as having 4 x 256 mb chips (like the samsung does). it makes at least a 40% performance hit on ram just by taking out the 4th memory chip.

the new htc sensation coming out end of november is going to have a dual chip ram configuration, one chip for each core, that i will have to test and see the benefits. right now we are loosing 40% memory performance because of the missing 256mb, so dont anyone dare say that it makes no difference.

btw, i dont know who thinks they can compare a PC to a Phone, but please stop it. they are not the same architecture, design, or even the same machine code running. so please stop it.

also, if you want to do that kind of comparison, you should not add 256mb to the computer, you should add the right amount of % accordingly. for example, like it was done above by one smart dude, if the phone has 256x3, the computer has 3x1gb, then to do the difference right we have to add 1gb to the computer for each 256mb ram to the phone. and YES, 3gb to 4 gb upgrade on a pc makes a difference.

i have had the htc sensation for about 1 month. it works great, but the RAM is a bottleneck.

if you run ANY game from gameloft, which i do constantly, you will see the free ram going to 30mb fast. if i try to have a recording software running on background(which i do), that takes up another 10mb, then i probably forgot to close my settings, that takes another 8-28mb, also, for the hell of it, i never close my browser, so thats another 50mb, WAIT!!!! didnt i already used up all my ram?

please guys, understand that 256mb of ram does not only have to do with the accessable ram, but also with configuration of it and performance of each configuration.

and 256mb ram is a TON of ram when you are talking about phone, smart as it might be.

the flash memory (used as cache when ram runs out on the phone) is slower by 25% on the sensation than it is on the samsung, which in turn takes even a bigger hit in the operation.

I LOVE MY HTC!!!! i would not swap it for a samsung galaxy s2 EVER!! although i own both and then some. but they took a 33% overall hit by not using at least 1gb ram. i would have done 1.5gb at least if i was designing the phone and used the 512mb chips available since they are even faster anyway.

if anyone has those phones, please guys, stop trying to figure out what another website said, LETS BE THE WEBSITE. take out your phone, run benchmarks, see differences, and post them.

i willt ry to find time later today and do exactly that.

talk to you all soon.