10 Nov
Motorola Droid is only capable of 256 MB of app storage – It can never become an iPhone killer
Posted on 2009 under iPhone Duniya | 4 Comments
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Loading ...There is this website called AndroidAndMe which covered this news that Motorola’s new Droid ships with a 512 MB ROM. This would mean that the Droid is capable of storing only 256 MB of apps. Isnt this sick? Droid has been positioned as a true iPhone replacement and it just 256 MB storage available for apps???
Google needs to revamp its Android OS asap and allow more space for apps. Though Google support installing apps to the SD card, Android developers are limited in what they can create.
For most applications, we want a small file size to limit the download times. When it comes to 3D games though, we need a ton of space for all the high-res textures, audio, and video.
Have you seen all the awesome iPhone and iPod Touch games? Hardly any of them would fit on an Android phone. It is not uncommon for popular titles to easily exceed 100 MB. For example, the game Myst takes up a whopping 727MB.
Infact Motorola is promoting the Droid as a mobile gaming device too. Since it features the OMAP3430 platform which features a dedicated PowerVR SGX 530 GPU. iPhone 3GS has a similar type of GPU. But can any Droid succeed with only 256 MB app space?
[via - AndroidAndMe]
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4 Comments
No, you're retarded too. I said that app DATA could be stored on the SD card, not the entire app. With community Android roms you also have the option of storing entire apps on SD cards, but the stock Android rom doesn't do that. The author was talking about the Droid not having enough space for games. And games take up a lot of space only because of their multimedia files, not the code itself. And it's the multimedia/data files which are stored on the SD card, not the entire app. Also there's nothing inherently unreliable about SD cards, you're misinformed. In fact, the internal storage on phones is basically the same technology as SD cards, just different speeds, densities, etc.
Again, it doesn't change the fact that the author of the article is uninformed, and has no business writing tech commentary.
No, you're retarded too. I said that app DATA could be stored on the SD card, not the entire app. With community Android roms you also have the option of storing entire apps on SD cards, but the stock Android rom doesn't do that. The author was talking about the Droid not having enough space for games. And games take up a lot of space only because of their multimedia files, not the code itself. And it's the multimedia/data files which are stored on the SD card, not the entire app. Also there's nothing inherently unreliable about SD cards, you're misinformed. In fact, the internal storage on phones is basically the same technology as SD cards, just different speeds, densities, etc.
Again, it doesn't change the fact that the author of the article is uninformed, and has no business writing tech commentary.
Thats right Ralph… but did you know storing apps on SD card isnt advisable? I used to store apps on my iPAQ SD card and every now and then it would stop reading it from the SD card. Its absolutely unreliable.
you're retarded.. android can store application data on the SD card. for example doom for android stores most of its data on the sd card, not the phone's internal memory. who let clowns like you write tech commentry?