June » 2009 » Kristof Kowalski

I’ve finally got a hold of my new 3GS today from O2. I have to say the delivery was super quick. I only ordered it yesterday and it came in today, rock on O2!

I’m going to spare you all the jibber jabber about how great the 3.0 OS is with the 3GS, as every man and his dog are talking about it on the Internet.

One of the gripes I had with the iPhone 2G/3G/iPod Touch is that it only came with 128MB usable RAM. After the OS booted you were really left with about 35 odd MB of usable RAM, which intern allows you to open up a PDF of say 26MB max or an Office file of about 13MB. I get the odd mail asking for help in opening up a 100MB PDF, which I’m thinking to myself, good luck! The most common symptom of opening up a file that larger is that the iPhone/iPod will reboot, freeze or LookSee will just quit.

So with the new update to the hardware the 3GS is packing 256MB RAM under the hood and with about 100MB usable after boot.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Unleashe.pdf, coming in at a nice 75MB. I loaded up LookSee, copied it to the device and then opened the file. I wasn’t sure what the outcome would be but… SUCCESS! Opened up like a champ and quite snappy too I must add as the solid state drive has a transfer rate of 5MB/sec.

So with this upgrade I can definitely see a lot less emails coming in and asking why their device has rebooted, locked up or just plain quit LookSee.

So happy days people!