Hi, not trying to be rude, but memory leakages or not, how much extra does it cost for a company to use 128MB of flash RAM memory as compared to 64MB (which obviously seems to be a very very bare minimum for Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3)? An extra US$10 for each P990i? Let's face it, if SE has in the very first place gives us 128MB of RAM memory, all P990i owners today will have 17MB + 64 = 81MB at boot time and with this amount of RAM memory, we could SIMULTANEOUSLY have Opera opened with 5 windows, pdf plus opened with a 3MB pdf file, QuickOffice opened with a 3MB doc, MobiPocket Reader opened with a 3MB ebook, video trick that just needs to be done 1 time w/o the OS killing it at all, messagning and BB with hundreds of emails and SMS, AquaCalendar opened and fully utilised all its features, DreamConnect opened and fully utilised all its features, SM Pro running, IM+ running and actively sending/receiving IM msgs, Adcanced Call Manager running and actively monitoring all my incoming calls, and the list could just goes on and on without the need to for the OS to kill off anything.

With this amount of RAM memory at boot time, 1/2 of the issues being faced by owners world wide would already have been solved, i.e., the spontaneous reboot to improve performance, the not enough memory messages popping up so often, the apps kern exec crashes when ram memory goes low and the phone is unable to clear up enough memory for the apps to utilise, etc, etc...

Just a mere US$10 SE could have saved the P990i's stability and usability, and most importantly, SYMBIAN OS's FAMED MULTITASKING CAPABILITIES...

The P910i could do all the above with ease, and it could perform all those SIMULTANEOUSLY with only 22MB or RAM memory at boot time. But noting that Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3.0 requires up to 3 times the amount of RAM memory for the same applications running on OS 7.x and UIQ 2.x (it is already a known fact that AquaCalendar, DreamConnect, SM Pro, etc, etc all requires up to 3 times more RAM memory on UIQ 3 as compared to UIQ 2), it will definitely take at least 22MB x 3 (66MB or higher) for the P990i to perform on par with the P910i in terms of multitasking.

Edit: Since this is SE's developer's forum, I sincerely hoped all developers could read my truthful post here... I am one of the many P990i owners who are currently refusing to purchase applications all thanks to the lack of RAM memory on P990i.

1. IM+ for one since it does not make itself as a system app and more often than that, the OS kills it off without my knowledge and completely makes this app useless on a P990i.

2. DreamConnect - The most powerful contact application for UIQ 3 but again, it cannot make itself as system app, and the OS just kills it so oftenly even with Organiser R4A13 firmware. DC can take up to almost 4MB ram memory and to load it up could take more than 6 secs hence the need for it to be running all the time for fast switch over is definitely a must!

3. With Blackberry Running, multitasking becomes an almost impossible thing, cos BB and Messaging (obvious requirement for BB) alone with R4A13 firmware still leaves us with only 5MB of RAM memory after just a few hours of usages. 5MB is not enough to browse 3 webpages with Opera, 5MB is not enough to start DreamConnect and AquaCalendar together! SM Pro cannot help no matter how I kill messaging off and reclaim memory. Becos of this, many of my users turned to NK E61

4. This list could go on and on, but I do hope developers of UIQ 3 platform can think about the consequences of writing powerful applications for UIQ 3 platform... there simply is not enough RAM memory to run more than a few apps that needs to be started and kept running in the background 24/7.

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