On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 15:14:28 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:

Buying a cellphone, especially the first one, is very different.
First-time buyers don't know what they don't know.
Unless the intent is to screw the customers, of course.

I admit I am a dumb consumer.

I fell for the trick that the 32GB sd card could, somehow,
augment the 4GB of "total internal memory" (aka Flash).

I was wrong. Dead wrong. Dumb wrong. Idiot stupid wrong.

However, look at this PC Magazine review of the phone:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411883,00.asp

To its credit, it does say "Unfortunately, bloatware runs
rampant. You get nine pieces of bloatware from T-Mobile
alone, and you can't delete any of it."

But, it NEVER SAID that you can't use the SD card for
app storage. And, it never said you only get 600MB
in toto, for app storage!

In fact, it mistook what the OS reported as the
available memory, when we already know that to be
untrue (see the memory thread for details).

"The Optimus L9 has 1.69GB of free internal storage,
along with an empty microSD card slot underneath the
battery cover. My 32 and 64GB SanDisk cards worked fine."

Notice that PC Magazine, essentially said:
a) Too much T-Mobile bloatware (true)
b) 1.69MB free internal storage (dead wrong)
c) 32 & 64 GB cards work (yea, but not for app storage!)

I would say that anyone reading that PC Magazine review
could be FOOLED into assuming (as I had) that the
sd card could be used to overcome the limitations
of the limited (FLASH) "total internal memory".

And, certainly, PC Magazine got it DEAD WRONG that
there is "1.69MB of free internal storage"!

Clearly, PC Magazine never read this thread:
How do we get Android to spit out the true memory & storage situation?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.mobile.android/true$20memory/comp.mobile.android/e6svmGS1M-E/-dONxP8YopcJ