On Sunday, April 6, 2014 11:48:41 AM UTC-4, Poutnik wrote:
Poutnik posted Sun, 6 Apr 2014 17:40:39 +0200



Danny D. posted Sun, 6 Apr 2014 15:24:10 +0000 (UTC)



......Every time I call them,

they tell me it's a 4GB phone that can be added to with a

32GB sdcard (which is a bold-faced lie for apps).



Your cannot say it is the lie.

It does have 4GB and it CAN be added by 32GB card.



It is rather a kind of half truth,

hiding what you can do with them.





Well, we live in age of advertisement.

Lies became fully tolerated behaviour.

Vendors are used to say half truth at the best.



I wonder what he thinks when he sees a PC advertised with 6GB of
RAM, 1TB of disk? They don't indicate how much is free, how much
is used by the OS, recovery partition, any apps that are included,
etc? Hell, even just formatting the drive reduces
what's available. Same thing for many other consumer devices no?
Like if you buy an iPod type device with 100MB, does that mean you
actually have 100MB? That some of it isn't lost to formatting, the
OS, etc? Not sure about the iPod stuff, but it sure works that way
on PCs.

To be sure, the case he's talking about, the reduction is a lot
more drastic, but the basic principle is still the same. I'm still
wondering what apps he needs that take 600MB+ that he has available
for whatever he wants. The typical stuff I've installed is maybe 5 - 20MB.