Android & ROM/RAM sizes

V4NT0M · 24 Apr 2010 at 15:06

So it looks like I'll be selling my G1 and getting a Samsung Galaxy Portal in the next week or so, sick of the creaky & fat G1. I've been looking at a lot of phones and many of them seem to have different ROM/RAM sizes and of course I know what they are but not really how they are used by droid...

Can anyone enlighten me as to what exactly ROM and RAM mean to android and how they would affect my decision to by a phone?

muon · 24 Apr 2010 at 16:02

ROM (Read only memory), however it isn't really read only as you install apps to it and is used for caching and settings. Its like the hard drive in a computer. RAM is the same as in the PC sense.

Currently, vanilla android does not allow you to install any application to the SD card and so you are limited by free space on the ROM "drive". You probably know this already since you have the G1.

V4NT0M · 24 Apr 2010 at 17:24

That's what I gathered, I think the problem was that "ROM isn't ROM" thing.

So basically with more ROM I can install more apps and the more RAM the faster the device should run.

Meatball · 24 Apr 2010 at 17:29

Skyfall said:
That's what I gathered, I think the problem was that "ROM isn't ROM" thing.

So basically with more ROM I can install more apps and the more RAM the faster the device should run.

The more ram the faster, like a PC

. ROM is equiv to hard drive space, so more doesn't make a speed difference.