You are all taking this a bit too seriously. Listen, if I can:
Access my home ftp and pull files,
Access my DESKTOP remotely from this phone and administer my home server,
Dial into PBX equipment for my job, and interface with a terminal emulator,
All while I listen to Pandora, look at street-view turn-by-turn directions, and find Andromeda,
then I am a happy camper.
Go play Myst on your home PC.
I have 42 applications that I have added since I got the phone on Friday. I still have 209MB remaining internally.
Most of my apps are caching to the memory card.
This is not an iPhone killer. Anyone who says that has no clue. This is a market expansion. This phone is among the first wave of Android sets to hit the market. By the time you're ready for a 5GB application, you'll sure as heck be using it on a different piece of hardware.
Enjoy it for what it is; a giant leap for those of us who have been in Bland Land with Verizon Wireless. The times, they are a changin'.
Now, if someone would PLEASE tell me the path that the card uses to store music, I would appreciate it.
yewslus wrote:
Go play Myst on your home PC.
Why? These are no longer just phones. They're now multimedia devices and it's not unrealistic to want large apps for better gaming.
tubemonkey wrote:Why? These are no longer just phones. They're now multimedia devices and it's not unrealistic to want large apps for better gaming.
Like I said, this is among the first of a new beast for Verizon. You'll see the hardware advance tremendously over the next year. It isn't unrealistic to want those kind of games, but it IS unfair to **bleep** the whole device over one (small) fault.
As a longtime VZW customer, I'm glad they opened up and did this. The visionaries that brokered this shift to open-source are vindicated.
tubemonkey wrote:
yewslus wrote:
Go play Myst on your home PC.
Why? These are no longer just phones. They're now multimedia devices and it's not unrealistic to want large apps for better gaming.
Whereas I can definitely see your concern and eye for the 'multimedia' part of it, you need to understand that yes, as of right now Android phones can't stick a 300MB in their phones because we don't have enough internal memory. But our SD cards do.
What I'm trying to come across here is that Google has already suggested, even hinted at allowing applications being saved to the SD card sooner than later.
Welcome to the issue all Android users face. The constant struggle of managing your apps to save space and the phone still performs. All other Android phones have between 192MB - 256MB.
Of course you can Root your phone but that comes with caution as you'll open the phone up for security risks. Most users are your average user and dont care/want to Root... they just want a Phone! And ironically not on the DROID Doesn't list.
The best thing we can do for now is keep an eye on internal memory usage and ditch apps we really dont need.
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