Thread: N900 - Issues surrounding full root partition (No space left on device)
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Rushmore is offline Rushmore
2009-10-23 , 16:51
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Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
+ engineering complexity + additional space.

Anyway, no one's trying to "spin it", people are trying to fix it. Yes, it was stupid & braindead of Nokia to not realise this was going to be a problem until September 2009 (or at least communicate their proposed solution). However, it's time to move on and work with what we've got.
I actually changed my post and got rid of the "spin" and everything else, since spin was a poor word choice. Adding 256mb more flash would have added $50 to $75 more dollars to the device. I think that common yield for flash is 256mb, so that is what EVERYONE buys- Nokia, HTC, Motorolla, etc. for phone devices.

I used to buy connectors and memory for IBM (before Lenovo) for motherboard production and consumer electronics for contract manufacturing. I appreciate the cost issues.

Still, as an N900 future user, about how many apps will I be able to install from the repository or other sources that adhere to the rules? Using the measure of 10 megs per app as an average.

How much space will we even have, considering some of that space is already taken?
Last edited by Rushmore; 2009-10-23 at 16:55.