The android phones out now have a max onboard memory allotment of 512 megs. Half is for the OS etc and the other is for what you want to add. I never had an argument for for memory expansion, I only had how it is. Syncing your ipod with music and pictures is much easier then anything for android, that is a fact. I never said it was easier, I said it comes down to personal taste. There is as of yet, no syncing app for android, you plug the phone in (not sure why you would remove the memory card except you wanted to add more steps) and the memory card comes up like any flash drive. Moving files amounts to dragging and dropping whatever you want, the music app on the phone will scan for new music or load playlists (not nearly as nice as an iphone). With the iphone and memory you get ease of sync but are limited to the onboard memory period. For an android phone with an expansion slot you get basically unlimited memory and manual syncing by hand. I carry a 16 gig card in my phone and have another 8 I usually have on me, total I have 40 gigs on four cards, each about the size of your pinky nail. The memory allotment for apps is a different argument, apple gives you the entirety of onboard memory for whatever you want, so you could have gigs and gigs of apps. Android at the moment is limiting apps to 256 megs. If that matters to you, then it matters. It doesn't to me. I have an ipod touch with 8 gigs of storage and keep less than 300 megs of apps on it, the rest is music, movies and pics. I've got over 25 custom installed apps on my android phone and still have almost 100 megs left for memory, I see no problem in a practical sense, but theoretically, yes the limit could be reached easily by someone wanting to install every app they see.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:00 AM, David K Watson <davidkirkwat...@gmail.com>wrote: > I had read that some android phones other than the > Droid don't have the 256MB application limit. Perhaps it's > just that they have more hardwired memory. > > I don't really buy your argument for memory expansion. With > the iPod, you plug it into your computer and swap files between > it and your computer. For a swappable memory card, you pop > out the card, pop it into your computer or attached card reader, > and swap files around. It doesn't sound any easier to me. And > in fact, almost all users leave the memory card in for the life of > their phone, except for upgrades. That is the actual argument > for a swappable card: if you can't afford a large capacity, > you buy the smaller capacity now with the prospect of putting > in a larger capacity card later. This is where the iPhone loses, > since the equivalent upgrade would be to upgrade to a higher > capacity iPhone, paying the difference for the capacity but > keeping all your paid content, and it seems unlikely that > Apple/AT&T would allow that. They might, if upgrading meant > resetting your contract period. > > I also wouldn't hold my breath waiting for decent media apps for > the Droid, either. Verizon is very protective of their vcast and > Rhapsody video and music markets, and likely won't allow any > apps that compete unless they can take a similarly outrageous > cut for themselves. > > I have a Verizon phone and their FIOS service. Love the FIOS, > like my phone (a higher-end LG), and hate the phone service. > The customer service is not great, either (or I have been > spoiled by Apple). > > > From: mike <xha...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: It's monotheist versus pagan (It's a Windows Mobile killer) >> >> Good stuff David, I too am on CDMA and have that limitation which sucks. >> >> The 256 is an android problem and is on every android phone out there, has >> nothing to do with this being on verizon or being the moto droid phone. >> I've read some about this and have not seen anything regarding anti >> piracy, >> more concerns about removing the card when stuff is running from it. >> Theoretically, if someone would build an android phone with more internal >> memory like an iphone, all of it could be used for installs, as it stands >> the android is weak on internal memory which limits apps that can be >> installed, and the iphone is useless for external memory for expansion. >> This comes down to personal taste, if you are buying a phone soley for the >> apps, you won't be buying an android phone anyway. >> >> If you won't be missing any apps from iphone, then there is no reason to >> not >> look at this phone except it's on verizon and I'm sure they will charge >> for >> things like enabling the GPS chip as they do in their other phones. With >> the specs of this phones screen and it's CPU power, motorola should have >> built in some killer media apps, big mistake IMO that they didn't. >> Personally If I was with Verizon I'd wait for the sub 100 dollar eris, a >> solid upper mid range phone although without the physical keyboard. >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
