Where is the other 5gb space balance from 8gb internal?

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Strange how VZW touts "40gb" space, but 5gb of usable space is missing. We all know that "40gb" is not truly 40gb, but the 8gb internal is really odd.

Where as the Droid X has about 7gb of space out of box, the TB has 2.5gb for app space and no accounting of the 5GB balance that should be left. The SD card correctly show 29.7gb, but the 8gb amiss.

Seems the TB has the mega ultimate record of gigabytes of bloatware that needs to be purged with a modded rom to free the space up. Will end up being app space, but free none the less.

Yes, there are a few games, but those should only take up a few hundred megs- not gigs. Unless Guitar Hero is doing it......

The 8gb they speak of is storage space built in to the phone.

Yep and it appears to be taken up by bloatware.

2.5gb space for apps- where is the 5gb balance? Rhetorical, since it is taken up by preinstalled junk (for the most part).

Point is the consumer does not even have the 37.5gb of usable space they should have with the TB and "40gb". Actual usable space is 32.5gb, courtesy of bloat.

I have been wondering about this... 5GB in bloatware is borderline irresponsible. Why the he'll do we want this much **** oh our phones? F that... I want it gone.

The main culprit is the VZW Navigator. The map for all of NA is stored there and that is a few gigs by it self. The second culprit is the Let's Golf app from Game Loft. Rock Band is not preinstalled on the phone that's downloaded as an .all on first run.

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Where are the VZ maps found?

Htc rep I spoke with at launch stated some space is bloat but there's more space for future proofing the phone. Androids OS keeps growing and htc wants the bolt to be able to update past gingerbread to ice cream and so on.

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Originally Posted by newtsevo

Htc rep I spoke with at launch stated some space is bloat but there's more space for future proofing the phone. Androids OS keeps growing and htc wants the bolt to be able to update past gingerbread to ice cream and so on.

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That is hilarious... considering that 2.3.3 is less than 200MB. Sounds like an easy line of BS to sell though. I would be much more inclined to believe that a lot has been used up for VZ Navigator...

And what about the "768mb of ram". Where has that gone? If advanced task killer is accurate I have the same ram left over with no tasks running as my rooted incredible.

..not sure of that has to do with the rom on it.. I was using miui.

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I'd assume the internal has been partitioned using the SLC configuration (similar to the Vision)

More reading: http://tjworld.net/wiki/Android/HTC/...ngUserCapacity

And, I'm totally guessing here