Phone rant...

Ok, just a quick blog, that and I haven't blogged in a while. But I've been having an ongoing battle with my phone when it comes to memory. The irony being is that the HTC Desire uses an internal memory and an SD card, sounds great, you buy a  bigger SD card, things go fine... Would be fine if software developers didn't lock down software so that it can ONLY run on the internal memory, what makes thing worse is the petty amount of internal memory you get on the HTC Desire. It's about 150 MEGABYTES! I did say that clear, "Megabytes!", what happens, everything that can only be used on the phone's internal memory gets updates that make the apps bigger and bigger in size, and I keep getting the dreaded "Running out of memory" icon on the notification bar on the top of the screen! Personally I wish I knew a bit more about this phone before I got, and original I was going to get a phone with a lesser specication, an HTC Wildfire, before the nice lady at the store showed me her HTC Desire and proved to me that was the pick. Well, I like the phone, I like how it integrates with Google and such, but what's with this TINY internal memory!

The Dreaded icon I see on a daily basis! D:

It turns out, according to someone that I work with, the internal flash memory in my phone is set up in a way where it's partitioned. One partition is used for the system's RAM, I was a bit "Huh?" when I heard about this, but yeah, HTC phones use Flash Memory as RAM! As the other partition is used for saving "Internal memory only Apps" onto. Problem is, they went in favour for RAM over internal memory size, which now makes me wish I sort of got myself an iPhone like everyone else! But hey, I'm about 7 months into my contract, and I like the phone generally. Apparently I can "Root" (Android term for jail breaking for you Apple people) my phone so that I can change these partition sizes of RAM and Internal memory size, I just don't want to screw around with the phone though. I also heard there's a way for me to hack into apps using the Android SDK, but I'm not a programmer, and even when the web sites made it look easy, I wishes the SDK I has actually worked, and wasn't mega hard to understand!

I just hope the next phone I get actually gives me iPhone like memory sizes in GIGABYTES! HEH! :P