Usable storage on the Galaxy S 5 is unsurprisingly low again

February 25, 2014

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Remember that story about how Google was supposedly on Samsung's you know what to get rid of the bloatware on their devices? Well either it was too late to change the Galaxy S 5, or the report was completely unfounded, because the usable space on the Galaxy S 5 is going to make a few people angry. GottaBeMobile did a quick check on one of the demo units and found it to have only 8.65GB out of a possible 16GB that is usable. I don't have to do the math do I? That is roughly 50% according to my calculations, and is a little below last year's Galaxy S 4.

This isn't surprising, but I am also wondering why the rumor that Samsung was going ditch the 16GB version didn't hold? It seems to me that if Samsung wants to continue to throw bloatware on their phones, they should at least make the entry model 32GB.

source: GottaBeMobile

Robert Nazarian Author

Robert lives in upstate New York where he was born and raised. Technology was always his passion. His first computer was a Radio Shack TRS80 Color that used a cassette tape to save programs, and his first laptop was a Toshiba T1200FB that sported a CGA greyscale screen and two 720kb floppy drives (no hardrive). From the early 90’s through late 2011, he only owned Motorola phones starting with the MircroTAC all the way through to the Droid X. He broke that streak when he bought the Galaxy Nexus. Now he's sporting a Galaxy Note 4, and absolutely loves it. He has a wonderful wife and a 6 year old son. In his free time he enjoys sports, movies, TV, working out, and trying to keep up with the rapid fast world of technology.

2 comments

ShapesBlue says:

February 25, 2014 at 1:43 PM

Ditch the bloatware OS and run a custom rom. Problem solved

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GraveUypo says:

February 25, 2014 at 12:21 PM

i have roughly that much space left for videos and photos in my phone. but i have a total of 80gbs of storage on it.

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