Android question?

[Space Monkey]

Hi guys,

I'm in the market for a new phone and I'm currently looking at all options, but I have a query about Android phones.

I was just watching a youtube video on the HTC Sensation XE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1ePCDugdvQ&feature=related (from about 1min onwards) the box spec shows 'Total Storage 4GB' but 'Available Storage upto 1GB'??

So what does this mean as a user, as I see the phone comes with a 16GB SD card, so do I only have 1GB for apps etc, and pics/music go on the SD card??

1GB total for apps doesn't sound a lot? Can anyone Android buffs enlighten me, as I've never used an Android phone before. Also are all Android phones the same or do they differ with the amount of usable memory?

Cheers

 

[Space Monkey]

Without being overly technical it means the OS + onboard apps share a private 1gig partition, 3gig is for user crap and the 16gig is a second drive for user crap. By and large apps arn't a problem as apps are stored on the SD card if they are big (This is App or OS controlled and can be overridden but tbh - leave it alone, it knows best and it's very good at it )

It's basically mounted as:
/OS+apps - usr has no read/write privledge
/sd_card - onboard memory (badly named), full read write
/sd_card/external_sd - SD card, full read write.

Ah right, so I read it the wrong way round, the 3 gig is for user stuff, but larger apps use the SD card if needed (would a large app be 100% on the SD card or would it use a bit of both?)

Thanks Myshra, appreciate your help