Sony Xperia z3 compact - memory

[Anonymous]

Hi

I'm considering upgrade to the Sony z3 compact. I currently have a Xperia Arc S which I chose mainly for the quality camera which I have been very pleased with. However the main problem is the lack of memory space for downloading apps. Its really limited and often you cannot save onto the SD card.

What I need to know is whether improvements have been made memory-wise as I don't want to be so limited in the number of apps I can download.

Hope this makes sense!

[Anonymous]

Over to the Z3 expert! @viridis 

[viridis · Accepted solution]

Xperia Z3 has 16gb compared with 8gb with the arc S.
It also allows up to 128gb micro SD to be added to the phone and with android 5 allows apps to be installed to the sd card

[viridis]

However, bear in mind, the space an app takes up is nothing to do with any phone, if the app is 1gb then it's 1gb

[Anonymous]

So does that mean the issue that bugged me - that the option to save to SD card not available - is no longer an issue?

[viridis]

It shouldn't be an issue, you can copy most apps to sd card now.

[MI5]

Any Android phone that is running Kitkat 4.4.4 or above will have unified storage, which means that the entire storage space can be used to store apps. Previously you would of had, at best, 1gb partitioned off for storage of apps, so any "new" phone now will be a considerable improvement over your Arc.