ELi5 the difference between memory and storage on mobile phones.

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Say an app has a download size of 3 GB, do you need 3 GB of memory or 3 GB of storage?

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That would be 3 GB of storage.

“Storage” is the “disk” of a phone, which is very similar to an SSD hard drive of a computer. Memory is what is also called RAM. Phones are very similar to other, more ordinary computers and this is just one such example of how.

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