- Credits
- 23,428
As spotted by XperiaBlog, the 8GB version of the mid-range M4 Aqua has 1.26GB of space for users, once you take firmware, pre-installed apps and Android into account. That means you get 15.75% of the advertised space — so, the same as buying a six-pack of beer, and receiving one lousy bottle’s worth of booze.
For this particular phone, you could argue that it’s not the end of the world — despite the pitiful amount of internal space, you can at least expand with a microSD card. But that’s far from a perfect solution — and, more to the point, it’s bullshit that your brand-new smartphone comes with less memory than an iPod Shuffle.
It also speaks to a larger problem for Android, a smartphone platform often praised for its robust offering of cheap-and-cheerful handsets. On the M4 Aqua, Android takes up 4GB of space — half the room!
Read More
I bet, this Sony smartphone may run into a lot of out-of-space warnings from Android, and slow down problems because of the lack of free space.
I also bet that this smartphone will be refunded a lot after the buyer of this smartphone finds out that it only has 1.26GB of free space, or less after the user update all their apps in Google Play App store which may cause some apps to use even more space because the newest version of the apps use more space than the older versions of the apps.
