Asus a620BT Ram vs ROM and other memory questions

[Morgin]

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this, so maybe someone can help.

This device supposedly comes with 64 megs of SDRAM and 64 megs of Flash ROM.

With no programs installed (except for what is installed by default) and none of those programs running, the flash total storage still says 31.46MB. Now, it was my understanding that absolutly nothing program wise loads in flash. The RAM is used for all storage of programs and to load up programs into memory etc etc. The ROM is just for storing various things.

Is there any reason why a device that says on the box has 64 megs of flash ROM would only show up as 32 megs in the total storage card memory area of start/settings/system/memory?

It is a bit annoying to only have 10 megs available of this 32 because the asus backup file takes up 22.

Did it somehow get formatted small? Whats the deal? Where is my missing 32 megs of ROM?

[alcdroid]

The missing space in ROM is used by the operating system. Just as Windows takes up space on your computer's hard disk, Windows Mobile uses space in the PDA's ROM.

Cheers!

[Morgin]

Does this mean devices with 32 megs of ROM (mypal 620 non bt for instance) do not have any room for storage of files in flash rom? This is odd considering that if the OS takes up 32, and the backup files takes 20.. where did they get the room for the backup file with only 32 megs of ROM.