Setup guide
Table Of Contents
- Purpose of this document
- Document history
- Sony Mobile Developer World
- Table of contents
- Product overview
- Technologies in detail
- Device-to-device communications (local)
- Messaging
- Positioning – location based services
- Provisioning (OMA CP)
- Multimedia (audio, image and video)
- Synchronisation (OMA DS, EAS, Google Sync™)
- Web browser
- Memory in Android™ phones
- 1. Dynamic Memory (also known as RAM, or non-persistent memory, because everything in RAM disappears when the power is turned off) is used as “working memory” when the device is actually running, and is shared between the operating system and all...
- 2. System Memory (also known as “System partition” or “/system”) is used for the Android OS and for most applications that are pre-loaded from the factory. This type of memory is normally locked, and can only be changed through a firmware upg...
- 3. Phone Memory (also known as “Data partition” or “/data”) is a memory type that is used as working memory. It can be compared to the C: drive on a PC or to the startup disk on a Mac. All applications downloaded from Google Play™ or other ...
- 4. Internal Storage/SD card (also known as “/sdcard”) is the memory used for:
- 5. External Card (also known as “/ext-card”) is the name for the removable SD memory card in products where there is also Internal Memory and where this Internal Memory is referred to in the phone’s user interface as the “sdcard” memory. Th...
- Trademarks and acknowledgements
White paper | Xperia™ SL
2 August 2012
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