16 GB Capacity says 14 GB?

no kidding.

who wants to hear these petty ramblings? it's always been this way
with hard drive capacities. deal with it. sheesh.

Just got my 32GB phone it reads only 29.06GB free that more that the 2GB for the 16GB iPhone... must be all that EXTRA hardware and bits and Bytes or its for a swap file that is hard coded in to the phone for the video camera and other items to use.

DP

milesmutt wrote:
no kidding.

who wants to hear these petty ramblings? it's always been this way
with hard drive capacities. deal with it. sheesh.

You are obviously on the wrong forum then. Go away. sheesh!

A: I do not have issues. At least no more then anyone else does.

B: It has not always been this way. This only started once storage started to get larger then 1 GB in the mass market. It is shameful that it was allowed to happen the way it was and anyone who has taken even some basic computer science courses will tell you that it is not correct.

C: It was not a petty rambling. It was a concise and proper answer to the original posters question that was not based in a lie by telling someone that iOS 4 take over 2 GB of space.

If you disagree with my statements, thats fine. But attacking me on the forum for giving a factual answer to someone else's post only shows a lack of maturity on your part.

Thanks for the explanation Richard! Mine says 14gb too. I wasn't too worried about it but I remember that my 16gb 3gs was over 14gb of storage. I went back and checked it and the capacity was listed as 14.3 after upgrading to iOS4.

The 328MB you downloaded was a compressed file. Do you know how large the files it contained are? The firmware area contains a lot of the operating system but you have to rememember that most of the file structure that the OS uses is contained in RAM.

Yes actually my 3Gs does have all those things. I got it hot-tapped and interchanged. Now it's better than the iphone 4 and has the full 16gigs.

Umm .. yea it's a legit question. Not everyone knows stuff like that. I didn't know. When the commercial says "16 gigs of storage space" I wouldn't NATURALLY and AUTOMATICALLY assume that some of that space is going to be utilized by the OS. To me, and apparently a lot of other people, 16 gigs of promised space would mean just that ... 16 gigs. Not 14.

then why don't they put in an 18 gb hd and then it would be equal to 16 or advertise it as 14 its mis selling

Well first they don't advertise the phone as having 16 GB of Storage Space. They say the phone is either 16GB or 32GB, and that's the total of the all bits and bytes the phone can store. Sorry this is news to you, but it's how all computers on the planet work.......

Yep, same here 😉 .. LOL, did notice that I have a slightly less ram than I did on my 3GS ... But that is to be expected with all the extra features that my 4 has.

The OP has a valid point,no need to get nasty.What is the point of putting a storage capacity of 16/32GB,whatever,if in reality you can only utilise 14GB?,wouldn't it be more honest just to say 14GB of storage available?.Apple would get a lot of Brownie points for transparency,being "Up Front" to their customers,saying 16GB is purely academic.

Jp....not really. They are not being less than honest or misleading in any way. When you got your laptop, desktop or whatever you have for a computer, you bought it with a set amount of storage. When you opened it up the first time and had you checked the available "free" space, you would have seen your free space as being less than the total space the computer had to begin with. And the reason is because the operating system and programs you preloaded use some of the available space. Was your PC manufacturer not being upfront? No, your computer had what was advertised........The iPhone has 16GB or 32GB. After loading the OS, it has less free space, but it still has the GB purchased.

I understand your point,you ,me and the OP,but not so savvy users might be a bit puzzled when they discover having purchased a 16GB IPT,their available usage is 14GB.Stating it is a 16GB IPT is just really telling them it has a drive that size,but can only use 14GB.Which might lead to a bit of head scratching!.
I would just prefer manufacturers giving the available storage space.