Thread: 256mb for installable aplications?? Am I awake or is this only a bad dream?
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iKneaDough is offline iKneaDough
2009-09-30 , 17:25
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#8
Originally Posted by mgtman View Post
If the N900 is really a mobile computer as Nokia advertises it, there should be NO separate memory for applications at all! We should be able to use its 32gbs with whatever we want - applications, data or documents. If I can do that with my humble 5800XM, why can't we in a powerful linux mobile computer??
Probably because applications need to be on the ext3 filesystem, which is not readable in windows (unless using a special driver or other software), whereas the documents and other media can work fine from a FAT filesystem, and then can be read by almost any other OS when plugged in via USB.
 

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