Whereas most Palm OS users can live well with the 4MB that their current NVFS-enabled Palm handhelds give them(long live the single tasking OS; altough the 10 MB of RAM on the Palm Tungsten T3 were lovely), Series 60 devices can multitask and thus need loads of dynamic RAM.
AllAboutSymbian writes a blurb on how most current devices are low on RAM; and on how this impedes the functionality of the machine:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/Why_the_penny-pinching_over_RAM.php
At 3lib, there is a table of the RAM amounts contained in each Series 60 device:
http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/s60history.htm
Beeing perfectly honest, I never ran out of RAM on my Siemens SX1 – but as stated repeatedly, I never ran and third party products on it…
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