Wow, it has 128 GB of ROM! Upgradable to 256 GB! I wonder what's with the operating system that takes up so much space. And no mention of user storage.
Shame nobody has done a breakdown of exactly what is being held in this used up space.
From what I can find the system folder is 2 GB alone, but we're still well short of almost 5 GB of "stuff." We likely also have a backup image, and then just Samsung's bundled apps?
As a random aside: Why are they still selling 16 GB phones in 2013? I realise the chips are faster than what goes into SD Cards, but given the speed of SSDs and the relative price decrease year upon year, if phones were keeping up we'd be seeing at least 64 GB as standard!
Most low end phones are shipping with at least 8GB of storage, but up to 7GB of that is eaten by the system partition usually, giving you effectively no space.
Genuine question: Why do you care about a few hundred MB of disk space for an app?
I could understand if it was a GB or so, but in this day and age it's USD 9c or less worth of disk space (assuming you use high end SSDs, if it's a HDD then it's under 1c).
I would expect the same for smartphones and computers.
it was really frustrating back in the times, when your brand new 8GB android smartphone only had 1 GB of free space out of the box
(The 8GB edition of the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua only had 1.25GB of space for the user !)
Nowadays, devices have larger memories. But an android with mandatory apps and 'necessary data', or a Windows 11 can take around 20GB away.
It can't be neglected on low end systems. There are still devices with 32, 64 or 80GB out there ! (your redmis or galaxy A XX)
Since most smartphone manufacturers won't let you use another OS or a custom ROM, all of that space should be reserved for them, and not advertised to the customer !
It's the same for computers. Most users buy the computer with the Windows, and will never replace it.
While I get that Windows + pre-installed apps + recovery partition takes up space. When I saw that only 23GB is left after a 64GB capacity, I was shocked.
Compare this to iOS or Android and you'll find it's going against my expectation. I doubt I'm alone. 23GB is not a lot of space these days if you plan to use it for something serious.
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