Newbie question on installing onto SD card

[Guest Eric5273]

I'm new to the Smartphone world and I have a few questions about installing games. I have a Samsung i600 and a 512 MB Lexar Media 32X SD card to go along with it.

I figured it would be best to install the few most commonly used applications to my phone's memory and then any games and less-used apps to the SD card.

But then I was wondering this: I know access time to the SD card is slower than the main memory. So then what if I have a game that is intense like an action game. Will having it on the SD card hurt performance? Or does this not matter? :?

So far I only have the imov messenger installed on my phone and I installed it into regular memory, but I plan to get a lot of games, and also a few other programs like the Clearvue Document Suite.

Also, what is a good amount of memory to leave open? I would guess it's not a good idea to fill the entire phone's memory with programs? I think what is confusing me is this whole Memory/RAM/ROM thing. On a regular computer you have hard drive space and then RAM. On this phone, it appears that it is all combined, and this is what is confusing me.

Any advise or information on this would be greatly appreciated. :D

[Guest MoRFLeZ]

I only installed Smart Explorer, SP Task Manager and X-Bar on the phones memory! Everything else - goes on the card. I think most people do it like this... installing only a few must-have programs on the phone ... and putting the rest on the card! I don't think it affects the way the game plays .. I haven't experienced it that's for sure.

[Guest nickcornaglia]

I believe most apps run in RAM anyway, so it wouldnt really matter if the app is installed on your phone or SD card. It's going to run from RAM either way. I think the only toime it matters is if the program needs to read/write files in the same directory as the app. But the speed here is probably negligable.