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Originally Posted by Ryvyan
If I put the Nook in a plastic bag stretched tightly across to prevent water damage at a beach or in a bathtub, I would appreciate the buttons being present for page turning since the touch-screen works differently.
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You read in the bathtub? Hahahahaha. I can only speculate what you're reading in there. But hey, if it was waterproof you wouldn't need a lunch baggy, now would you?
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Originally Posted by afv011
It is not just the OS. What about FOTA? A firmware update is upwards of 100Mb, needs to be stored somewhere before it can be processed. Plus databases for your books, with read page, bookmarks, annotations... all that takes space, and you have to leave a generous margin for future expansion. Plus whatever else is stored in there, like your account details and whatnot.
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If you look at the PSP Fat (PSP 1000), it has a 30 MB NAND dump of everything that's installed on
4 different partitions (flash0, flash1, flash2, flash3). And it has a browser with Flash support, various audio/video/image codecs and not to mention a s**t load of drivers for various accessories: camera, GPS, 1seg (Japanese TV tuner), earphones remote, TV-Out, etc). Most of it is stored in flash0, while the other partitions hold account info, settings and wallpapers (which the PSP turns to Bitmap image, mind you!), but that stuff is trivial... wallpaper and all (480x272 bitmap), it can't take up more than 1 MB or so, while the Nook on the other hand, only reads, what, a few formats and pictures and has a frigging browser! Pff... Now that is just absurd.
On a side note, the PSP Slim (2000, 3000, and quite possibly the Go version, I'm not sure) has 60 MB, double the capacity, and it's why there was no space to add Skype on the Phat... You see, they had to keep supporting future firmware updates for all models. I understand that. But the PSP's firmware looks very much like a customized *NIX cousin, just like Android was based on Linux, one which does a heck of a lot more than the Nook.
My (expert) computer engineering opinion is they could've used 100 MB tops and still manage to advertise it as 2 GB just fine.