Internal flash size

Ole Tange openmoko.org at tange.dk
Wed Dec 20 17:00:18 CET 2006


On 12/20/06, Paul Bohme <openmoko at bohme.org> wrote:
> Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> >
> > I would second that request. 1GB or even 2GB shouldn't make it prohibitively
> > more expensive but a LOT more useful (and still much cheaper for us customers
> > than having to buy overpriced microsd cards ;-).
>
> Last night I got an ad in the mail from a cell company that claims the
> Motorola RAZR phone retails for US$199.  Our neo - which from a consumer
> point of view already has fewer hardware features - is significantly
> more expensive than this.  It could be reasonably said that we should be
> looking for things to leave *out* to reduce the cost, must less trying
> to push it even farther.
>
> Those of us that have delusions of grandeur (myself foremost ;-) are
> more than likely best served with adding our own storage.

I agree that the basic phone does not need a lot of storage. I am not
worried about spending EUR 20 on a 1 GB card. I am more worried that
if 1 GB is not enough - then I am stuck, as it seems s3c2410 only
supports an address space of 1GB
http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semiconductor/MobileSoC/ApplicationProcessor/ARM9Series/S3C2410/S3C2410.htm

/Ole




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