Droid Internal Memory

[cdlazzari]

Does the Moto Droid use the Micro SD card to load apps on or does it have designated internal memory for that, and if so how much?

[Iceberg]

Just read soemwhere and forgot, but I think it was 250MB
and no apps2sd not now not ever

[Iceberg]

The Motorola Droid will be the most powerful Android phone to date when it launches on November 6, 2009. However, the device still features the same shortcomings of all other Android phones. The Droid ships with a 512 MB ROM which contains only 256 MB available for app storage.

Google does not support installing apps to the SD card (and likely never will), so 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.

Motorola is going to promote the Droid as a mobile gaming device since it features the OMAP3430 platform which features a dedicated PowerVR SGX 530 GPU. This is the similar type of GPU as what was included with the iPhone 3G S, so we know it can pump out some crazy graphics.

I hope Google and Motorola find a way to resolve this problem, but the real solution is to include larger flash ROMs inside the phones.

Are other handset makers paying attention to this issue?










http://androidandme.com/2009/10/news/google-fails-to-address-app-storage-issue-with-droid-and-android-2-0/

[baldwinguy77]

Actually, the Droid (more specifically Android 2.0) is going to support storing apps on the SD card...to an extent. Any content/resources(the large amount of data you were talking about) that are packaged with the app are able to be stored on the SD card; only the executable files for the apps are required to be placed on the device's internal memory. However, the executables can take up a considerable amount of space as well. It would still be nice to be able to store them on the external storage.

[psufan5]

photoshop for the droid made a folder on my SD card... so it def has access to it.