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Re: installing flash memory

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Originally Posted by MobileBiz (Post 454428)

I know what RAM and ROM stand for but how are the terms used when it comes to WM? I've been using Palm OS for quites sometime. Do programs I purchase typically get installed to ROM like a hard disk drive on a computer? Is RAM the temporary storage used to run programs? Is the additional flash memory or card simply additional storage space similar to ROM? Thanks.

You are correct.

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Originally Posted by MobileBiz (Post 454428)

You pretty much said it right there. ROM is equivalent to the internal hard drive, RAM is RAM, and SD card is like the external hard drive.

Re: installing flash memory

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Originally Posted by themuffinman (Post 454937)

You are correct.

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Originally Posted by TurboFool (Post 455121)

You pretty much said it right there. ROM is equivalent to the internal hard drive, RAM is RAM, and SD card is like the external hard drive.

Thanks! So the Sprint HTC Touch Pro does not have any flash memory at all just a card slot correct?

Does anyone remember the old programs like Stacker that used compression to increase hard drive capacity? Is anything like that available for cards or jump drives? Just curious if you could double the extra storage for the 4GB Diamond if you needed to.

Re: installing flash memory

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Originally Posted by MobileBiz (Post 455127)

Well you can always get a 16gb microsd and have 4 times that of the diamond.

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Originally Posted by TurboFool (Post 432048)

He's referring to flash memory, not RAM. The Diamond has 192MB of RAM, 512MB of ROM and 4GB of onboard flash memory, but no microSD slot. The Touch Pro has 288MB of RAM, 512MB of ROM, and a microSD slot, but no onboard flash memory.

Just to correct you, the CDMA Diamond has 288MB of RAM...not 192.

Re: installing flash memory

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Originally Posted by MobileBiz (Post 455127)

The HTC Touch Pro has 512MB of ROM and a microSD card slot. The Diamond contains 4GB of flash memory in ADDITION to the ROM, and in place of a card slot.

As for compression, those whole-drive compression methods had two major problems: performance (it took a lot of work to be constantly compressing and decompressing files) and reliability (they essentially converted the whole drive into one file, so any corruption would destroy everything), which is why they're pretty much non-existent now. Also I don't think the phones could handle that strain.

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Originally Posted by Chef Ben (Post 455200)

Just to correct you, the CDMA Diamond has 288MB of RAM...not 192.

I think I've already been corrected at least twice, but maybe it wasn't this thread. Hadn't realized they had changed it for the CDMA version when I wrote that.

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