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What's the point?

Posted Mar 8, 2012 12:01 UTC (Thu) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987)
In reply to: What's the point? by khim
Parent article: Mozilla announces HTML5-based phone

As you're getting into specific specs: The devices Telefonica used for their deoms were weaker than those Mozilla used for the demos with Gaia UI (Samsung Galaxy S II in the latter case). Still, all those are of course demo setups and there's a couple of performance improvements still to be made.

That said, Android needs ~300MB for the base system, B2G needs ~100MB. So there's a real chance that B2G can be more performant on low-spec devices than Android.


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What's the point?

Posted Mar 8, 2012 12:44 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

That said, Android needs ~300MB for the base system, B2G needs ~100MB. So there's a real chance that B2G can be more performant on low-spec devices than Android.

Android only started requiring ~300MB when nice UI features were added in ICS. You can still run older versions - and they will work just fine.

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