News · 25 Dec 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
Courtesy of Razorfold
Poor Dell Venue Pro just can’t seem to get a break these days….After all the hardware and software issues and massive delays here comes another annoying problem: Dell is actually shipping devices with half of the previously announced RAM! If you check out my Windows Phone 7 hardware specification chart you will see that the Dell Venue Pro is supposed to have 512MB of RAM and not 256MB as it is currently the case on the phones that have been received by the users. Here’s also the official specs from Microsoft (because Dell no longer details the full hardware specification of the device on their own website):
One should remember that only 256MB of RAM are required to run Windows Phone 7,so the Venue Pro shouldn’t normally suffer from any performance issues..right now (lots of performance issues are being reported thought on Dell’s support forum). It’s up to the OEMs to decide whether they want to add more RAM or not but there’s no denying that early Dell Venue Pro adopters have the right to feel shafted especially after all the delays and now this…
Here’s what the Samsung Omnia 7 reports (it has 512MBof RAM & 1GB of ROM):
source: xda-devs thanks for the heads up Kelyan
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