04 February 2010

Keep Your Smartphone
In Top Form With RAMblow S60

Despite the fact that smartphones are trying to push into the ultra-portable computers realm we're still constantly reminded of the pure limitations of the current hardware.

With lesser amount of free RAM, a smartphone can slow down considerably and can even forcefully close running applications without any warning.

One good workaround for this issue would be to use phone's available resources more effectively, and that's where the little, but powerful application with equally fierce name comes into play - RAMblow S60.

Let's take a quick look at what the promised features are:

• Unattended and manual management of running applications.
• Maintaining a healthy amount of free available memory for smooth operation of the phone.
• Memory optimization for executing large programs.
• Automatic memory cleanup after set idle time.
• Examination and manual closing of unwanted programs.
• Reporting the results of memory cleanup.

In a nutshell, RAMblow S60 from CellPhoneSoft is a lite version of Swiss Manager Pro S60, which I reviewed some time ago and quite liked it. RAMblow S60 includes the same great memory management functionality as the Swiss Manager Pro S60, but comes with a more simplified version of the task manager. Sadly I didn't find an option to replace it with the default S60 task manager, which would make it immensely more usable.

The main principle of RAMblow S60, however, is to silently run in the background and keep the phone's RAM as free as possible by performing automatic cleanups at preset times.

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Naturally, there's also an option to specify which apps RAMblow S60 should not close in any circumstances, thus ensuring that only the essential to the user applications will keep running in the phone's memory.

So far, I've only tested the application on N97 mini, and the famed memory cleanup function worked without a hitch. With the RAMblow S60 you can look forward to squeeze those extra few mb's of free RAM by keeping the battery and memory consuming heavy apps at bay!

RAMblow S60 is compatible with all Symbian S60 3rd and 5th edition smartphones by Nokia, Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson. You can try the fully functional free trail version at developer's homepage by following this link.

In my opinion, CellPhoneSoft have done the right decision by taking the core functionality from Swiss Manager Pro S60 and bringing it into a more sleeker and affordable package. RAMblow S60 has a simple, no nonsense user interface that shouldn't offer any challenge even for inexperienced users to quickly find their way around the application features and immediately start reclaiming more free RAM on their devices!

Any comments or questions about RAMblow S60 are most welcome, especially if you have already tried the application and have some success stories to share with us!