Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Upgrade and pay more for less Date: 5 Dec 2024 11:31:16 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net e3K/6+F3Z+6uuYGsPPcIXwJ0UHmSN783Ei/mV8iGZpuOEs0PxF X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:v+5qDKbt5GGDkvezZoh3nH0kXXM= sha256:tca2xoGuE3kjbjOlpZJ3fE81Pu6g02lmXGQTpdrll3Q= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2591 Steve Hayes wrote: > On 4 Dec 2024 11:33:21 GMT, Frank Slootweg > wrote: > > >Chris wrote: > >> Steve Hayes wrote: > >[...] > >> > The ones that I can afford offer 4-6 GB of storage, which is less than > >> > the 16GB in the phone I have. > >> > >> Can you post a link? 4-6 GB isn't enough to install Android so I find that > >> hard to believe. > > > > The 4-6GB is clearly *RAM*, not (permanent) Internal Storage. I've > >replied to Steve about that mixup. > > The terminology in the ads is not very clear, thank you for your > clarifications. > > They refer to RAM and ROM. > > I assumed that the ROM contained the operating system and apps that > were factory-installed, and that it would not be available for apps > that are downloaded and installed later, since it is "read-only" and > therefore could not be subsequently written to. In this case, ROM is a dumb and incorrect term. It isn't Read-Only Memory, because it's Internal Storage, so - besides the operating system and factory-installed apps - is stores additional apps and data. (BTW, also part which stores the operating system and factory-installed apps can be written/re-written, so also that part is not 'ROM'.) Some people/sources call it flash-memory, but I think that's a bad term as well, because it describes the technology, instead of what it does/is. Your new reference () says "storage" and "Internal". Those are the normally used terms, i.e. "Storage" and "Internal Storage". [...]