We are all pretty familiar with mobile devices/phones that don’t really have a lot of onboard storage. Thus device expandability, the addition of memory card slots, is like an all-you-can-eat buffet for your device. Expandability on Palm and WinMo devices enables you to install as many apps on your device as you want and frees up the device’s onboard memory. This sort of expandability is available across all mobile phone platforms. So why would it be omitted from Android?

A review over at, and I’m not in the habit of linking here, the Wall Street Journal lets us know that

One downside: Only a measly 70 megabytes of internal flash memory are reserved on the G1 for storing these third-party applications. Once you fill that limited internal storage space, you have to delete some of your apps to add more. You can’t currently store apps on the phone’s roomier removable memory card. (A one-gigabyte microSD comes with the G1.)

This seems to be a huge oversight to me, the G1 ships with a 1 Gb microSD card and it seems it’s only available for storage. if the phone can’t run apps off the available card space, you are limited to a very select number of favourite apps on your phone at any one time.

Hopefully the planned OTA update for the G1 addresses this, but it doesn’t seem likely at the moment!

WSJ.com
Via Brighthand