In recent days, there seems to be a lot of news about S23 series OneUI systems occupying too much storage. At first, I thought it was fake news, but soon I noticed that it was worth paying attention to: My S23U 512G system was close to 60G (11.4%), while the S22U 256G system was 40G (15.6%).
Considering that S22U has been upgraded several times from OneUI 4, the S23U is the pre-installed original OneUI 5.1 system, this is a little bit weird. I think Samsung has designed different system sizes according to the different capacity, however I don't know what the purpose is.
In fact, this has also caused many discussion in China. More examples refer to Samsung's strategy: 256G devices occupy about 35-40G, and 512G or 1T devices may occupy up to 70G. Some people think it is similar to the SSD we bought. For example, the 1T on the label may only be displayed as 970G on the PC, due to different conversion methods (1kb=1024byte vs 1kb=1000byte).
I think it is a noteworthy issue, and Samsung may be able to do better in this regard, by minimize system or clearly introduction. Also please don't worry about that when you decide to purchase, it's really a good phone!
Considering that S22U has been upgraded several times from OneUI 4, the S23U is the pre-installed original OneUI 5.1 system, this is a little bit weird. I think Samsung has designed different system sizes according to the different capacity, however I don't know what the purpose is.
In fact, this has also caused many discussion in China. More examples refer to Samsung's strategy: 256G devices occupy about 35-40G, and 512G or 1T devices may occupy up to 70G. Some people think it is similar to the SSD we bought. For example, the 1T on the label may only be displayed as 970G on the PC, due to different conversion methods (1kb=1024byte vs 1kb=1000byte).
I think it is a noteworthy issue, and Samsung may be able to do better in this regard, by minimize system or clearly introduction. Also please don't worry about that when you decide to purchase, it's really a good phone!
