As you already know very well, none of the electronic products that have installed operating systems offer the space that their manufacturers present in their promotional materials. More precisely, if a manufacturer will sell a smartphone with 16 GB of storage space, you must know that you will not have as much space for use, but at least 20% less. To find out which smartphones offer the most free space for use, a UK publication compared exactly what the most popular smartphones on the market offer.
Apple's more affordable (relatively) iPhone, the 5c, is the most generous of the 16GB phones we've recently tested, giving you 12.6GB of memory (79%) to play with. Meanwhile Google's new Nexus 5, which runs on the Android operating system like the S4, is relatively bloatware free with 12.28GB (77%) of usable space. The iPhone 5s is in bronze position, providing 12.2GB (76%) of usable storage. The reality is that every phone has to sacrifice some of its internal memory to the operating system – they never live up to the sales talk of 8,16 or 32GB. But many manufacturers further stuff their phone with pre-loaded apps, skins and bloatware. And no phone has more piping, braiding and frills than the Samsung Galaxy S4.
As you can already see from the image above, iPhone 5C is the smartphone that offers the most free space for consumers to use, 12.6 GB out of 16 GB, followed by Google Nexus 5 with 12.28 GB and by iPhone 5S with 12.2 GB. At the other end of the list is Samsung Galaxy S4 which leaves users with a little more than half of the storage space promised by the producers, only 8.56 GB being available for content storage.
If you are wondering what exactly takes up so much space in the terminals, well, we are talking about the operating system and the various software applications/modifications that the manufacturers apply, those from Samsung being careless in this regard. Practically Android- takes up as much as iOS in iPhone 5C, but Samsung is not too interested in offering unmodified Android.
