Like any operating system for mobile devices, Android strives to be a lightweight operating system so that it can work on a wide variety of hardware. The first version of the operating system had to fit on the T-Mobile G1, which only had 256MB of internal storage for Android and all its apps. However, since then, things seem to have gotten a bit out of hand, with Android taking up a whopping 60GB of storage on Samsung’s latest phone. As revealed by some users, the phone uses around 60GB of storage for system files right out of the box. In my case, the unit of the Samsung Galaxy 23 Ultra that I am analyzing now indicates 55 GB of System, not including the pre-installed Google and Samsung apps. #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */
If you have a 128GB Galaxy S23, that’s almost half the storage for Android, so that’s something to keep in mind. That’s four times the size of the Pixel 7 Pro’s normal system partition, which is 15GB. This is partly explained because Samsung is contractually required to include Google applications, but in many cases it adds its own apps, which fulfill a similar function. That means having two app stores, two browsers, two voice assistants, two text messaging apps, two keyboard apps, and so on. In addition, Samsung includes third-party apps such as Facebook, Netflix, Microsoft Office, Spotify, Linkedin and more pre-installed apps, which also take up space. Luckily, you can uninstall these apps if you don’t care to save some space.
