Why does the G1 have so little space?

[ImaG]

Well... as has been pointed out, getting root and moving apps to SD card still requires a large cache to be placed on the phone. I THINK what they were thinking was, this was going to be a web based phone, so massive data could be pulled off the web instead of stored on the phone. The short sightedness of this "vision" is that when you are traveling and data-roaming kicks in you are screwed. I have three Slovoed foreign language dictionaries backed up on my SD card (using Astro) that I re-install (one at a time) when needed (using Apps Installer). When I'm done, I uninstall from phone. Unlike the web based dictionaries, these are complete on the phone. So, when I use them, no data roaming. BUT, if I leave them installed, the phone throws a low memory tantrum. When they did the memory design on this phone they had to have been on crack.

Some things just aren't meant to be understood I guess. Kinda like the Apple releasing a phone with GPS but with no options for turn by turn.

If you think about though, google/htc decision is pretty consistant with the way phones have been designed as of late. All of the top devices will always leave you wanting something. The N97 comes close to offerimg everything you want in a mobile device, but even they dropped the ball not by not including a capacitive screen.