[herbsman]

Does anyone know how much in terms of resources the mobile musicplayer (aka ipod) on the iphone 3g sucks up? I noticed that most of my performance issues and crashes (extreme keyboard lag, maps & safari, etc. ) mainly occur while I'm running a podcast or playing music in the background.

The iphone supposedly has a powerful CPU but a relatively low amount of system RAM, so maybe the ipod function of the iphone is just a big RAM hog? The 2g iphone didn't seem to have this issue.

[imitchellg5]

I always get a noticeable slowdown with my iPod touch while playing music. I get a lot of keyboard lag at first and a lot of 3rd party apps struggle. Maps is not smooth either. However, Safari never seems to be to affected for me. I think of the iPhone as the early G5s. They had a great processor but came with so little RAM they were worthless in the stock configuration.