N95 Symbian OS Virtual Memory

[Quakester2000]

Why cant the symbian os implement virtual memory or Nokia implement it in its phones that don't have a lot of memory.

[Ronaldo-9]

because it would be very slow and hard to manage, these symbians have enough problems as it is and adding virtual memory might give them a new problem. if they wanted more ram on the phone then they would add it. personally think n95's 18mb free ram is enough for any app

[fostex]

for any ONE app, probably. but there are people who like to have more than one app active at a time, you know. i've only had the phone for a week, and i've already run into the out of memory-message several times.

[cinghialino]

Fostex is right.
This is the worst thing (oh, and the crappy GPS) on our Nokia N95.

[3Shirts]

Originally Posted by cinghialino

Fostex is right.
This is the worst thing (oh, and the crappy GPS) on our Nokia N95.

Don't forget battery life!

[Dan205]

If this was possible then we'd have no reason to buy the next phone they release that's just a little bit better (which no doubt will have more RAM). There's no reason why it shouldn't be possible to implement into Symbian OS, then again I guess battery consumption would go up hugely using the storage device as virtual RAM so it's near pointless anyway.