The smartphones stolen storage

Clubic published a very good article about that, I won’t plagiarize it, it is a very good one so I recommend you read it, although it is very long.

I confess I was fed up too with this bullshit of space that is sold, while we have to erase some data to make some space only for a simple update.
I had got a BlackBerry Bold 9700 and at the end after all the updates, I screamed because I couldn’t use it as a smartphone anymore but only as a phone (if I wanted to phone only, I kept my old Samsung flip phone). Remaining space was so short that there was not enough cache space when I wanted to go on the internet, I had to restart it each time I wanted to go on one page.
Then I got tired and I decided to get a premium smartphone for not changing every 6 months, so I got a Samsung Galaxy S4 and its 16 Gb announced, but… problem was the same, remaining space is small even for the base (almost 8 Gb for a 16 Gb smartphone), and only after few apps and games downloaded (2 free games 1 Gb each after few minutes and other stuffs), and space becomes short again.

It doesn’t matter, I decided to get an external 64 Gb SD card, and… nothing changes because, even if there is a function “move to SD card”, for Android SD card is the second part of internal memory! So nothing is on my SD card (only Tomtom has the bright idea to download map on the SD card).

Finally I have to clean my smartphone again, at the point I can’t use some Samsung functions because OS partition is full (Samsung HD voice synthesis not possible for example), and an available 60 Gb part I cannot use because apps stay in “SD card” space which represents almost half of sold storage.

Anyway I don’t understand 2 things: why separate in 2 the internal memory when one partition would be great and we wouldn’t have to play with location where to put apps, and why call “SD card” the internal memory when an external storage is expected and waits for it on my device. Sometimes we wonder how engineers think and how such decisions can pass in committee or by the product manager, maybe they just don’t test them.

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