Arfa Daily wrote:

So yes, I quite understand where the OP is coming from on this one, and
why he feels that he has been misled as to the capabilities of his phone
for the purposes that he needs - particularly after he took the trouble
to ask those who *should* have known, and who *should* have been able to
advise him with regard to the true amount of app storage available to
him, and the restricted storage abilities of the SD card as an
augmentation of the internal storage.

Agreed: and when I buy a laptop (as I did) that advertised a 128 GB SSD, that
turns out to have 16 GB[*] reserved for a recovery partition (and a fair amount
of bloatware on the C: drive, to boot), then I feel that I've been lied to.
It's not that I can't fix it (I have), but I can't shop to /my/ best advantage
if the sellers twist the facts.

The position with phones is much the same, if not worse. On the little Samsung
phone I have (or rather: had until I bricked it) that came "free" with the
above laptop, there was so little space that, after I had added just /two/
small apps (a mapping app and a WiFi monitor) that it couldn't even update the
apps that Samsung had locked onto the phone ("Not enough space to update
YouTube", "Not enough space to update Google Hang-outs", ..) And, of course,
putting a 32GB SD card into it didn't help at all...

-- chris