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Old 07-11-2005, 04:28 AM
     
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sarcasmsra
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I don't doubt that it's possible to do what they did, but I wouldnl't pay $1475 for it.

First off it doesn't say specifically that it has 1.1 GB of onboard memory, it just implies it since it says "1.1gb supercharged!" near the onboard ram figure. They could have just included a 1GB SD card, and then rounding to 2 digits you have 1.1gb. There aren't 1.1gb ram chips so if they actually swapped out the ram chip onboard, they'd end up with a nice even number still. I seriously doubt they could have added more memory onto the address bus because there's probably no friggin room to do that in there. Unless it's one of those strange space-bending places that's actually lot bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. You know, like the Huxtable's house from the Cosby show. How many kids did they have anyway, and was Claire ever pregnant? Maybe Cliff was stealing babies from work.

As far as the battery, it just has a third party battery that is 3.7 V and more than 1700mAh. There are many third party battery makers for cell phones, laptops, pda's... pets.... Okay maybe not pets. Well unless it's a robotic pet. But those aren't really pets, those are toys. Oh yeah there's another for the list... toys.

For clock speed, they probably just overclocked it by replacing the oscillator or perhaps even simply setting some jumpers. I'm not going to open mine up to check out what's in there until my 15 day trial is up.

They don't say they have the Bluetooth modem profile enabled, so for the modem it's probably just via USB cable.

Everything else sounds like just bundled software to me.

Oh except for the weight, that's probably not software. Unless it's a booklet of EULA's attached to the phone. But i'm gonna guess that isn't it. It'd be neat if the Supercharged version actually made it lighter, say by a factor of 2. That'd be quite a trick, and probably worth $1475.
 
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