The 16GB Samsung Galaxy S4 is $199 with a new contract on AT&T. Not only is that half the advertised storage capacity of the HTC One for the same amount of money, but it also has about 45% of that 16 GB used up. That's about 7.2 GB of space already used on the Samsung Galaxy S4. It's a good thing it has an SD card slot, because users are going to need it, big time. Of course, then they have to deal with the age old problem of "where is my data being stored, SD Card or my phone?". The interface for this isn't very intuitive.
But Samsung isn't alone on this one. The HTC One comes out of the box with 7.14 GB used, only slightly less than the S4. But, since the HTC One comes with 32 GB on the base model, that means that the HTC One has 22% of it's storage already used up. That's still not an optimal situation for users.
Nearly any Android phone is going to come with compromises like this. There's the base Android operating system, the customizations the manufacturer did to Android, preloaded media, and perhaps the biggest impact comes from the mountains of bloatware on the device. This bloatware can't be removed from the device without rooting, and that's not often an easy task either.
Samsung is hoping that the fact that they offer an SD card slot will make up for the fact that they use up a large amount of the promised storage space on their new phone. But what's the point of getting the base model of a phone for the lower price if you have to immediately buy an SD card to get that storage back? Seems like the Samsung Galaxy S4 has a few hidden costs.
via Geek
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