Samsung Defends 8GB Of Useable Storage On The 16GB Galaxy S4

Last week we heard that if you buy the 16GB version of Samsung’s Galaxy S4 smartphone, you would only be able to use around 8GB of actual storage on the device, as the rest is taken up by the OS and installed applications.
A number of owners of the Samsung Galaxy S4 were less than pleased about this, and now Samsung has commented on the issue and tried to explain why so much of the devices storage is used up.

In a statement sent to CNET, Samsung says, “For the Galaxy S4 16GB model, approximately 6.85GB occupies [the] system part of internal memory, which is 1GB bigger than that of the Galaxy S3, in order to provide [a] high resolution display and more powerful features to our consumers.”
What do you guys think, this is standard practice with smartphones, where a device is advertised as having 16GB of built in storage, but the actual amount you can use yourself is less, although this is probably one of the first devices that uses almost half of the handsets storage.

Samsung Galaxy Core Gets Official

Last week the Samsung Galaxy Core was leaked ahead of its announcement, and now Samsung has officially announced the device. The specs of the Galaxy Core are pretty much the same as what we heard in the leak.

Those specs include a 4.3” WVGA TFT LCD display, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage, a 5MP rear-facing camera, a VGA front-facing camera, and a 1,800mAh battery with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The Samsung Galaxy Core will launch in two versions: There’s a single SIM version and a dual SIM version. The former is expected to be released in July, while the dual SIM version will be released in May. Nothing yet on pricing.