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Old 3rd Mar 2018, 09:04
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Originally Posted by Rwy in Sight
3GB RAM and 32 GB ROM.

Confusing the terminology again I'm afraid


ROM is read only memory, i.e. it is an area of persistent memory that cannot be written to or used to store user data it can only be read from. In the case of desktop or laptop it is typically a small area of memory that contains the system BIOS but on a phone it usually refers to the area of memory which is reserved to store the operating system.


The 32Gb that you refer to is the storage capacity of the phone which is available to the user to store their data (music, photos, downloaded apps etc...). Strictly speaking the correct terminology for this would be non-volatile memory. To compare it to a laptop or desktop this is the equivalent of the computers hard disk but in the case of a phone it will be solid state flash memory however the function is the same, it is storage space that can be written to and erased as often as you wish.
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