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justan

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Nothing happens you just get $100 off for doing absolutely nothing

Oh thanks! That's awesome. I thought I would need to trade in my phone.

markslickdealer

Mar 27, 2025 5:29 PM

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It's a mistake, but I'm not sure if it's a typo - O and A are pretty far away on a QWERTY keyboard. Pretty sure a lot of people just think "this is memory, but it's not [dynamic] RAM - must be a ROM, then." No, flash storage is another type of RAM. As far as I know modern systems generally only use ROM to store firmware, like EFI or BIOS on a PC. Pedantic, I know, but just call it "storage" or "SSD" and you'll be correct without confusing anyone.

Anyone with the most modest understanding of phone features, which I would have thought includes the vast majority of slickdealers, knows that 256GB ROM would be absurd, while 256GB RAM is just what you would expect. But maybe I'm overestimating people's "fault tolerance"

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angle123

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Yeah Toyota is pretty cheap to not offer wireless Android Auto at this point standard.

I rented a KIA recently. It HAS wireless android auto. This just shows how cheap toyata has become

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Sam Hobbs

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I can't believe so may people are bewildered by this obvious typo.

If it is such an obvious mistake then I can't trust a company that is that sloppy.

Sam Hobbs

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Anyone with the most modest understanding of phone features, which I would have thought includes the vast majority of slickdealers, knows that 256GB ROM would be absurd, while 256GB RAM is just what you would expect. But maybe I'm overestimating people's "fault tolerance"

256GB RAM is huge. A good article about smartphone RAM is How Much RAM Does My Smartphone Really Need? | PCMag [pcmag.com].

Sam Hobbs

Mar 28, 2025 4:31 PM

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Quote from Eletriarnation

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It's a mistake, but I'm not sure if it's a typo - O and A are pretty far away on a QWERTY keyboard.

Pretty sure a lot of people just think "this is memory, but it's not [dynamic] RAM - must be a ROM, then." No, flash storage is another type of RAM. As far as I know modern systems generally only use ROM to store firmware, like EFI or BIOS on a PC. Pedantic, I know, but just call it "storage" or "SSD" and you'll be correct without confusing anyone.

Technology has become complicated. In the early days of my life a processor's main memory was called RAM. Well actually the first computer I ever programmed used magnets for main memory. Hard drives were used for external storage. We never called main memory storage, that sounds ridiculous to me.

These days some people call SSDs hard drives. I think we need a better term for old-style mechanical drives but people typically call them hard drives. I think it would be appropriate to call hard drives, SSDs and the other storage not directly addressable by a processor, external storage but I think it is confusing to call external storage SSDs.

The fact that technology has become more complicated than in the past means that we need to be more careful about terminology.

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If it is such an obvious mistake then I can't trust a company that is that sloppy.

You mean some guy that work at Slickdeals?

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Eletriarnation

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These days some people call SSDs hard drives. I think we need a better term for old-style mechanical drives but people typically call them hard drives. I think it would be appropriate to call hard drives, SSDs and the other storage not directly addressable by a processor, external storage but I think it is confusing to call external storage SSDs.

The fact that technology has become more complicated than in the past means that we need to be more careful about terminology.

IMO, "external" storage refers to storage which is outside the case of the system - a flash drive, a USB hard drive, a NAS, something like that. The eMMC/SSD in a phone is internal storage. The SRAM cache inside the processor isn't really "storage" in a practical sense at all, because you don't store things there as the end user - it's used as a scratch space by the processor and is reinitialized every time you reboot the system. DRAM doesn't qualify either, as it's volatile.

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You mean some A holes that work at Slickdeals?

Actually the OnePlus site also says "256 GB ROM", which is impressively wrong to be coming straight from the vendor.

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IMO, "external" storage refers to storage which is outside the case of the system - a flash drive, a USB hard drive, a NAS, something like that. The eMMC/SSD in a phone is internal storage. The SRAM cache inside the processor isn't really "storage" in a practical sense at all, because you don't store things there as the end user - it's used as a scratch space by the processor and is reinitialized every time you reboot the system. DRAM doesn't qualify either, as it's volatile.

Actually the OnePlus site also says "256 GB ROM", which is impressively wrong to be coming straight from the vendor.

Both companies are garbage

Xlscior

Mar 28, 2025 5:46 PM

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Trading in a Galaxy Z Flip 5 for $334 and 10% student discount made it $156 before taxes with the discount. Worth it with the free Buds. Thumbs up.

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DylanO7417

Mar 28, 2025 9:46 PM

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Quote from Eletriarnation

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IMO, "external" storage refers to storage which is outside the case of the system - a flash drive, a USB hard drive, a NAS, something like that. The eMMC/SSD in a phone is internal storage. The SRAM cache inside the processor isn't really "storage" in a practical sense at all, because you don't store things there as the end user - it's used as a scratch space by the processor and is reinitialized every time you reboot the system. DRAM doesn't qualify either, as it's volatile.

Actually the OnePlus site also says "256 GB ROM", which is impressively wrong to be coming straight from the vendor.

ROM is the correct terminology. RAM was the typo. Some manufacturers use ROM as synonymous with internal storage. Stands for Read only memory - which is where the firmware and OS would be stored.

This is how it's been referred to for quite some time.

From Google:

What ROM is:
ROM stands for "Read-Only Memory," but in smartphones, it's used to describe the non-volatile memory that stores the operating system, apps, photos, videos, and other data that remains even when the device is turned off.
Function:
ROM acts as the phone's primary storage, holding everything from the operating system (like Android or iOS) to the user's installed apps, photos, videos, and documents.

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Eletriarnation

Mar 28, 2025 11:09 PM

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EletriarnationMar 28, 2025 11:09 PM

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Eh... call it what you wish, but it's not remotely read-only so it seems wrong to me. Again, I much prefer "storage" or "SSD" for being both unambiguous and actually correct, but we have people using "literally" to mean "figuratively" these days so I'm not sure this is a battle that can be won.

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e30baffoon

Mar 29, 2025 2:01 AM

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Yall should check out the Nothing Phone 3a. $379 from manufacturer website for 12/256 model. Does what oneplus used to do. I've been a die hard oneplus 7 pro user until now. Just ordered the 3a.

https://us.nothing.tech/pages/phone-3a

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mob...3a-review/

Glad I started to post here because they have been out of stock for a WHILE now and I was on the notification list but received nada...but when I go to get the url for my post it was in stock.

Thanks to perplexity.ai Here are the specifications for the Nothing Phone (3a):

Body:

Dimensions: 163.5 x 77.5 x 8.35 mm

Weight: 201 grams

Materials: Plastic body, glass back and front

IP64 dust tight and water resistant (water splashes)

3 LED light strips on the back for notifications, camera fill light, and 26 addressable zones

Display:

Size: 6.77 inches

Type: AMOLED

Resolution: 1080 x 2392 pixels

Refresh Rate: 30-120Hz

Brightness: Up to 3000 nits peak

HDR10+ support

Performance:

Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3

CPU: Kryo 8-core CPU

RAM: Up to 12GB

Storage: Up to 256GB

Camera:

Rear Cameras:

50MP main sensor (f/1.8)

8MP ultrawide sensor (f/2.2)

50MP telephoto sensor (f/2.0) with 2x optical zoom

Front Camera: 32MP (f/2.2)

TrueLens Engine 3 with AI processing

Battery:

Capacity: 5000 mAh

Charging Speed: 50W wired

Operating System:

Nothing OS 3.1 based on Android 15

Additional Features:

Essential Space AI-powered hub

Glyph Interface with LED light strips

Dual nano-SIM support (no eSIM in standard model)

Colors: White, Black, Blue

Yes. But U.S carrier support sucks

Sam Hobbs

Mar 30, 2025 6:53 AM

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Quote from Eletriarnation

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IMO, "external" storage refers to storage which is outside the case of the system - a flash drive, a USB hard drive, a NAS, something like that. The eMMC/SSD in a phone is internal storage. The SRAM cache inside the processor isn't really "storage" in a practical sense at all, because you don't store things there as the end user - it's used as a scratch space by the processor and is reinitialized every time you reboot the system. DRAM doesn't qualify either, as it's volatile.

The terms are defined relative to the processor, not you. External storage is storage external to the processor. Note that SRAM is Static Random-Access Memory, not storage, just as DRAM is memory, not storage. See Difference Between Computer Memory vs. Storage | HP® Tech Takes [hp.com]; I consider it authoritive. It says Memory is what your computer uses to store data temporarily, while storage is where you save files permanently.

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You mean some guy that work at Slickdeals?

The company says that the phone has 256 GB of ROM and it is calling RAM storage. RAM (Random Access Memory) is memory, it is in the name, RAM is not storage.

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Sam Hobbs

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From Google:

What ROM is:
ROM stands for "Read-Only Memory," but in smartphones, it's used to describe the non-volatile memory that stores the operating system, apps, photos, videos, and other data that remains even when the device is turned off.
Function:
ROM acts as the phone's primary storage, holding everything from the operating system (like Android or iOS) to the user's installed apps, photos, videos, and documents.

I think you are confused. I will be very surprised if Google has published such an article. I assume you mean that you found that using a Google search. Google search is unable to determine what is authoritive and what is fake. You need to post a link to the article that says that. It is important for us to determine the authenticity of the article. It could be written by someone 15 years old with very little experience with reality and Google might include it in the results. You need to learn that the results of a Google search cannot be considered authoritive without due diligence.

For one thing, I really doubt a phone's operating system, and definitely not applications, are stored in ROM.

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