On Sun, 6 Apr 2014 08:41:13 -0700 (PDT), trader_4 wrote:

Why can't the consumer turn on the phone when they first take
possession and see how much free memory it has?

The only way to know the answer is to get out a
calculator and add up the scores of apps that take
up the free space since most (but not all) Android
operating system versions don't tell the true story
on how much memory is actually in the phone in the
first place.

Gory details he
How do we get Android to spit out the true memory & storage
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...id/e6svmGS1M-E[1-25-false]