The article just conflated "data storage" with "storage" or more correctly "internal storage". In this whole thread so far, I haven't seen anyone claim that the phone manufacturer, carrier, etc ever said that it has
4GB of "data storage". So, whoever is writing this isn't much better in the accuracy dept.
I'll take bets that Samsung never put on the box or anywhere else that the phone had 16GB of data storage.
What I don't understand is if it's the OS, why does the Android OS apparently vary so much from one phone to the next? Or maybe from one carrier to the next. I have it on my entry level
4GB phone and I have 1.3GB free space showing. And that is after I loaded 100 - 200MB of my own apps.
Not if you look at the phone, turn it on, before you buy it. I think the best the manufacturer can do is say that the phone has X GB of internal storage and point out that the OS and pre-installed apps can take a significant amount of it. Otherwise, to give an actual number, they would have to track every phone they make and update the number every day, because apps are constantly being updated with new versions and can grow.
Only 13.5GB? instead of 16GB? Now you're getting silly. When you buy a PC from Dell or HP, how much free space is on a 1TB drive? It isn't 1TB. It isn't even
1TB on a bare drive after it's formatted.
I'd love to know what those apps are. It would seem that would make the most sense, that it's being loaded with extra apps. But I'm left wondering what the apps are that Samsung wants to stuff a phone with that total on the order of 4GB. That's one hell of a lot of something.
The future updates thing is interesting. I wonder if that's a big part of it. That some manufacturers are reserving a lot of extra space so that if a future version on Android comes out, they can support it.
Yes, I do.