What's the difference between the U's phone memory and the internal storage?

[#1]

What's the difference and what are they for?

[#2]

OK, we'll be waiting!

[Uliwooly]

this is intriguing, I would say it has 4GB for the user to stored anything and the other 4GB are divided between OS and perhaps app space.

http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/products/phones/xperia-u/specifications/

[#4]

So, what you're trying to say is the 2 GB system memory is for the OS and the 2 GB phone memory is for apps?

[Uliwooly]

exactly

[#6]

Are you sure about this? Because if you are, I would choose your reply as the correct answer.

[Uliwooly]

that'll be great but you can wait for confirmation from Johan, but if you check the link

http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/products/phones/xperia-u/specifications/

Memory

• Internal phone storage: 8GB (up to 4GB user-accessible memory)
• RAM: 512 MB

it will add up 4GB for music and pictures and the other 4GB subdivided 2GB for Android and 2GB for apps

System memory 2 GB

Phone memory 2 GB

Internal storage 4 GB

[#8]

Apparently it's taking him a while to confirm.

[#9]

I read this from xperiablog.net regarding Xperia U's memory:

"The Sony Xperia U only has 8GB of in-built flash storage and no micro-SD memory card slot. Only 6GB of this is user accessible with 2GB of this allocated to phone memory for apps, data and games and the balance for media."

http://www.xperiablog.net/2012/03/06/xperia-u-our-hands-on-impressions/

According to this, U has 6 GB of user accessible memory, where 4 GB is the internal storage where user data is stored and the 2 GB is the phone memory where only apps and apps data can be stored. I do not know if this is true but it sounds probable.

[Uliwooly]

I was right

[#11]

I cannot mark your reply as the correct answer yet, though. We need the confirmation.