Taking a look back at seven days of news across the Android world, this week’s Android Circuit includes Samsung’s storage problems with the Galaxy S7, the flashy display of the South Korean flagship smartphone, how LG hopes to defeat Samsung, the virtual reality Oscar ceremony that never was, the rat trap of handset pricing, details on Google’s I/O 2016 conference, why the App Drawer is not dead, and the trials of app developer Pixite to survive.
Android Circuit is here to remind you of a few of the many things that have happened around Android in the last week
Samsung’s Storage Problems
Lets start with the ‘gotcha’ of the Galaxy S7 family, storage. First of all, it’s a good thing that Samsung has brought back microSD card support, but after that it gets awkward. By not using Android 6.0′s adaptable storage, the SD card is purely for storage, as opposed to being added to a continuous block of memory that can be used for any OS feature (and would be encrypted as well). Given that the firmware and OS are going to take up 25 percent of the internal storage, 24GB of operational space for a flagship is looking like a poor decision. Chris Smith lays out the compounding mistakes for BGR:
The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge only come in 32GB versions so far, and there’s no telling if you’re ever going to be able to buy a 64GB or 128GB model. Furthermore, 8GB of that 32GB is occupied by Android and Samsung’s TouchWiz bloatware. That’s just like last year with the Galaxy S6 and 8GB is still a massive chunk of space.That means you’re effectively left with 24GB of storage on your phone for apps and you can’t install them on the microSD card because Samsung doesn’t (yet) support Adoptable Storage.
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