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Old 07-09-2012, 05:38 PM   #342
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A Google dev explains why the Nexus doesn't have an external SD card.
A Google dev explains why the Nexus doesn't have an external SD card.


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... We did it because we wanted to be able to merge the "public shared storage" (i.e. for music and photos) with the internal private app storage.

We got tired of seeing OEMs include many GB of internal storage for music, while users were still running out of space for apps and data. This approach lets us merge everything on one volume, which is way better. redit...
This is actually a real world issue for me and has happened a numerous amount of times on my Android devices. The apps I've installed on my device run out of internal memory while my SD Card is mostly empty. It seems now all the apps and local files will share the same volume.

Also the Nexus' filesystem is ext3 and not a hybrid of ext3/Fat32 which will make the device that much faster when accessing data.

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