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Samsung to Address Galaxy S 4’s Storage Issue via Software Update

Recently, Galaxy S 4, the latest Android-based flagship smartphone from South Korean handset vendor Samsung, was found to provide users with far less storage space when compared to what users might have expected from it, and Samsung has unveiled plans to address this soon. According to the company, they are looking ...

16 May 2013
12:51 GMT

Microsoft Released Wrong Surface Pro Storage Figures

Microsoft last week confirmed that the 128 GB Surface with Windows 8 Pro will come with only 83 GB of available space, while the 64 GB model will provide approximately 23 GB of usable space. Well, it appears that Microsoft has actually provided us with the wrong space figures, according to some tests performed by Ed...

8 February 2013
04:32 GMT

Microsoft Explains the Low Free Storage Space of the Surface Pro

Microsoft will soon launch the Surface with Windows 8, with the device to be offered in two different versions depending on how much space you need. The 128 GB model, however, provides only 83 GB of free storage space, while the 64 GB version has only 23 GB of available space. It’s all because of Windows 8 and...

7 February 2013
03:32 GMT

Microsoft Is Yet to Reveal the Real Surface Windows 8 Pro Storage Space

The Surface Pro will go on sale on February 9 in two different versions, with 64 GB and 128 GB of storage space, but without a Touch Cover. Even though 128 GB would seem to be quite a lot of storage space, keep in mind that the new Surface tablet runs Windows 8 Pro, so the operating system and the available apps tak...

23 January 2013
04:32 GMT

Microsoft Sued for Lying About Surface Storage Space

Microsoft is again sent to court, this time because of the storage space offered by the first tablet in its history. A California lawyer is accusing Microsoft of false advertising and unfair business practices, claiming that his 32 GB Surface doesn’t provide… uhm… 32 GB of storage space. Only 1...

15 November 2012
03:35 GMT

A 16GB Surface Tablet Would Have Less Than 1 GB of Free Space

Microsoft released yesterday a Surface storage FAQ, revealing that the 32 GB version of the tablet barely has 16 GB of free storage space. The reason is pretty simple: Windows RT, Office and the other apps eat up almost half of the available space on the cheapest Surface, so users would only get 16 GB. Truth is, yo...

6 November 2012
09:59 GMT

Microsoft: The 32 GB Surface Has Only 16 GB Free Space

Microsoft sells two different Surface versions, with 32 and 64 GB, respectively, but not all the space is available for music, videos or whatever files you wish to store on your tablet. The Windows RT OS, Office RT and the other apps take a lot of space, Microsoft claims, so those of you who get the 32 GB version of...

5 November 2012
09:06 GMT

HTC’s Sense 4.0 Users Get 50GB of Free Dropbox Storage

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is gearing up for the release of a new flavor of its user interface called Sense. Dubbed Sense 4.0, the new UI is set to bring along a nice range of enhancements when made available on the company’s next gen devices. It should make a debut on smartphones such as HTC ...

28 January 2012
07:22 GMT

SanDisk Releases 64GB microSDXC Card for Smartphones

Today's smartphones and tablet PCs come with microSD memory card slots with support for up to 32GB of additional storage space, yet a time will come when more external storage will be supported by them. In fact, the first memory cards that offer more storage space than that are already available for purchase,...

17 September 2011
03:51 GMT

LG E900 WP7 Lands at Vodafone with 16 GB Storage

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is reportedly gearing up for the release of its first handsets running under Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 OS, in an attempt to become both the first vendor to launch such as device, as well as the largest maker of Windows Phone 7 smartphones. We already learned var...

10 September 2010
12:00 GMT

How to Free Up Storage Space on Android Devices

Most owners of Android devices are complaining about storage space issues after installing only a handful of applications. Since every Android release till 2.1 does not allow users to install their apps on the SD memory card, they are left with the little internal memory their device comes with. Even though the situa...

7 July 2010
12:03 GMT

Nokia X6 Comes With and Without Music

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced only last week the introduction of a series of new mobile phones, among which we were able to spot the Nokia X6, a new Comes With Music touchscreen-enabled handset. While a Comes With Music phone doesn't sound like a bad deal, there are also those who would rather have ...

8 September 2009
05:34 GMT

The Wii Gets Better Storage, More VC Games

The most awaited talks at the Game Developers Conference came, no surprise, from Nintendo representatives. While Masato Kuwahara, the project leader for hardware development on the Nintendo DSi, talked about what his company was aiming to do with the new version of the handheld, Satoru Iwata, the president and the Ch...

26 March 2009
05:15 GMT

Nintendo Promises More Wii Storage Space

Analysts are wondering what Nintendo will do in order to regain the upper hand as Microsoft has slashed the price of the Xbox 360 Arcade to bring it just under that of the Wii. Well, it seems that the Japanese company wants to focus on making its console more attractive to potential buyers by addressing some of its w...

9 September 2008
18:11 GMT

Nintendo Talks Wii Storage Problems

Until now, it seemed that everybody except for Nintendo was aware of the storage problem the Wii has. In a recent interview, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime admitted that the company is aware of the problem and that they're trying to come up with a solution. This means that, unfortunately, the rum...

24 July 2008
13:06 GMT

Hands-on with Spire's GigaPod VIII: Cheap Storage Space for Your PC

We came across Spire's GigaPod VIII SP105B hard-disk enclosure during one of our raids in the supermarket. The GigaPod enclosure is a budget solution that is heavily discounted these days. We managed to snatch a unit at just $25.08, which is quite a bargain if you have a spare ATA hard-disk drive.IntroductionSpi...

12 May 2008
03:05 GMT


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