I'm taking it easy because I just had my lower wisdom teeth extracted this morning. In case you're wondering, I'm feeling fine. Really great, actually, considering I was told I'd feel like hell. Anyway, since I'm making a point of doing nothing today (and probably most of the weekend) I thought I'd write about something that has been annoying me about smartphones.

It seems intentional to me that smartphones are given cripplingly little RAM. We are now seeing the first phones with multi-core processors on board. But those same phones are only now pushing the 1GB mark for RAM. I am more than happy with the single core, 1GHz Hummingbird processor in my Droid Charge. But 512MB of RAM? Really? Read more of this post