Best buy guide: Galaxy Watch 6 or Galaxy S24+. Woo-hoo join SamMobile on WhatsApp or Telegram!

SamMobile has affiliate and sponsored partnerships. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn a commission.

Notifications
    News for you

    The Galaxy S7 takes up 8GB of internal storage out of the box

    Phone
    By 

    Last updated: March 2nd, 2016 at 08:12 UTC+01:00

    Samsung users have long made a fuss about the company pre-loading all kinds of bloatware on its devices that takes up a big chunk of the internal storage right out of the box. It got so bad that Samsung was actually sued in China for putting bloatware on its devices and it had to allow users in China to get rid of it. If you didn't like that the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge don't support Marshmallow's rather useful Adoptable Storage feature then you certainly won't like the fact that these handsets take up 8GB of internal storage out of the box.

    If you get the 32GB variant of the new flagships then that's a quarter of the entire storage that's taken up for TouchWiz, system, partner and carrier apps. Fortunately, the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge feature a microSD card slot and like it has done in the past, Samsung will allow users to move apps to the card. You won't be able to do this with system apps though and since the apps will live on the microSD card, if you take it out or replace it with another one you won't be able to access those apps since they will be tied to that particular card. The only solace you can find here is that the new flagships are capable of supporting microSD cards of up to 200GB and hopefully that will prove to be enough for all of your app and media needs.

    Source Phone Galaxy S7Galaxy S7 edge

    You might also like

    Galaxy Note 7 fiasco might have given Oppo an important employee

    Galaxy Note 7 fiasco might have given Oppo an important employee

    Samsung and Oppo recently found themselves competing in the foldable phone market even though they barely operate in the same regions. However, OnePlus is an Oppo subsidiary representing its parent company in the foldable phone segment outside China. OnePlus's first Z Fold-like foldable device called ‘Open' is essentially the same Oppo Find N3 announced for […]

    • By Mihai Matei
    • 6 months ago
    Samsung releases new firmware update for the Galaxy S6 series

    Samsung releases new firmware update for the Galaxy S6 series

    Several old Samsung Galaxy S-series phones were suffering from the GPS issue, which the company has been fixing by delivering updates. Galaxy devices such as the Galaxy S8 from 2017, and the Galaxy S7 from 2016, have already bagged the GPS bug fix update, and now it is time for an even older series, the […]

    • By Sagar Naresh
    • 2 years ago
    Samsung releases important update for discontinued Galaxy S7 and S8

    Samsung releases important update for discontinued Galaxy S7 and S8

    Up until a couple of years ago, even Samsung flagship smartphones only received two major Android OS upgrades and three years of security updates. The company now provides the best software support of any Android OEM. Many devices now receive four Android OS upgrades and five years of security updates. The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy […]

    • By Adnan Farooqui
    • 2 years ago
    Samsung says the Galaxy S7 isn’t a phone so it shouldn’t be taxed as one

    Samsung says the Galaxy S7 isn’t a phone so it shouldn’t be taxed as one

    Samsung has apparently tried to reclassify the Galaxy S7 as anything but a telephone for cellular networks in South Africa in an attempt to convince the South Africa Revenue Service (SARS) to lower import tariffs and get a tax refund. The company failed in its endeavor because, well, the Galaxy S7 is a phone after all, […]

    • By Mihai Matei
    • 3 years ago
    PSA: Third-party app Brawl Stars is freezing some Galaxy phones

    PSA: Third-party app Brawl Stars is freezing some Galaxy phones

    Usually we don't talk about bugs in third-party apps unless they're somehow related to Samsung's Galaxy phones, but that's what seems to be happening with the latest update to the mobile game Brawl Stars. Numerous Brawl Stars enthusiasts are raising complaints about the latest update to the game, which appears to be causing major issues […]

    • By Mihai Matei
    • 3 years ago
    Samsung is looking to put an end to Galaxy S7 waterproof-related lawsuits

    Samsung is looking to put an end to Galaxy S7 waterproof-related lawsuits

    Samsung has been facing accusations of misleading marketing for the Galaxy S7 not only in Australia but also in the US where the company has recently asked a New Jersey court to dismiss a proposed class action suit that was filed by a Galaxy S7 owner earlier this year. The company argues that the plaintiff […]

    • By Mihai Matei
    • 3 years ago