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[Opinion Poll] Are OEM’s Stealing Your Memory Space?

324 days ago by John McKenzie 4

OK due to a recent discussion on our Google+ page I have decided to take this to the masses and get opinions on it.

Yesterday I posted that Google’s new Nexus 7 had less space than it advertised for the user, not in saying that I didn’t say it was wrong or that I don’t understand why it is how it is, simply I pointed out the fact that there is less – which of course is normal.

The question is this…

If an OEM sells a device saying 8GB should they partition a larger drive to ensure 8GB of space is always available for the user?

In my corner I put the fact that until just a few years ago, broadband companies were selling broadband at lets say 10mb and they were forced to change it to up to 10mb as it was considered wrong… isn’t this just a case of the same?

I would be interested to see your comments below and please remember, this is not a discussion around why it is how it is or if its wrong.

John McKenzie
John is the Editor-in-Chief at Land of Droid and considers himself a connoisseur of all chocolate deep fried (such as the Mars Bar) and Irn Bru. Based just outside of Glasgow in Scotland he is married with 3 young daughters and has always carried a passion for writing technology news since his early days writing as a reviewer and news writer on tracyandmatt.co.uk. You can get in touch with John by emailing john@landofdroid.com

Daniel Charlton

I think if it said 8GB available, that would be okay. But they would have to back that up with have a user-accessible partition of 8192MB in size. If they then preload stuff into that space, I’m okay with that. But the problem is – and this is with storage in general, HDD, SSD, flash drives, etc, not just smartphones - they advertise X, and even if you reformatted it, there is substantially less than X in total physical space provided.
bedwa

If it was actually 8gb pre format, cool. 8gb, of which 7.4 or 7.5gb is available post system memory, no. Advertised memory should always be user memory. Period.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1372213061 Bob Lindstrom

RAM occupied by the OS is fairly listed as part of the overall RAM. However, when a device is sold with bloatware that cannot be deleted–an increasingly common occurence–that should NOT be listed as part of the RAM. The real answer is to ban all non-deletable bloatware.
Paul Jose05

It is never the same. Be it computer RAM, HDD space or a member card. It’s considered normal when OEM’S make these claims. But it’s high time they give what is advertised.