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"Our software isn't bloated, it just can't do maths!" isn't the great defence one may think it is.

It's perfectly understandable that the used space can be indicated in GB instead of GiB, but the total size also shows GB. The phone claims 512GB of total space, not the 476GiB this article would suggest.

In other words: the phone lies. It claims 512GB on the box but when you try to use that, you end up with less actual usable space. Samsung, of course, doesn't want to label their phone as 476GiB when their boxes say 512GB so I doubt they'll fix it with accurate numbers.

Sure, you can fix the correction, but the progress bar and the section of unusable space is still just as big.




The difference between the OS being 4 times as large as Windows 11 vs. a small math issue in the Settings app is massive.


This is kinda like when ISPs advertise their speeds in megabits per second when the entire world uses megabytes.

People call support asking why their speeds aren’t as advertised and ISPs have the audacity to go “well ackchyually”.




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