yes there is conflicting info about Neo's RAM. the credible source gsmarena itself says it's 380MB, but it has not mentioned it in the specs page bcos there is no confirmation from SE I guess.
in this review the unit only has 305MB RAM: (see at 25:32)
YouTube - Review Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo by MXPhone
but my view is that
xperia pro's white paper in SE developer website mentions 512MB RAM. the whitepaper's of other models like arc, neo, play doesn't have the info on RAM.
the pro is identical with neo and arc w.r.t same screen res with reality display, 720p video recording, talktime, standby with same battery capacity while xperia play has 480p video recording, no reality display, more talktime and standby probably due to it's less ram and also to keep the size in check. so in all probability neo must also be having 512MB RAM. flipkart also mentions 512MB RAM.
anyway only SE can clear this confusion
and if it is really 380MB RAM then SE blew it :lol:
there is still some hope:
Q: I’ve seen YouTube videos where your new phones seem to suffer in performance and some sample pictures that don’t seem to have the quality they should, are those final?
A: No – in preparing for the launch of our phones we have frequent releases of new internal test software and there are also different hardware revisions on the way up until launch. Lots of optimization is done late in the process and the release version will be optimized in many aspects.
Questions and Answers from MWC2011 | Product Launch Blog
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