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Samsung Fooling customers by writing 6Gb RAM instead of 768MB
- Robby2012 13y agoI can't believe Samsung is trying to cheat people like this. It is really mean and miserable to play around talking in bits instead of bytes to trick customers.
- polemic 13y agoAlso: "ROM"?
- cjfont 13y agoNah, that one is fine.
- MaysonL 13y agoThat should be Gb in the title, not GB.
- drivebyacct2 13y agoThe irony hurts.
- Jugurtha 13y agoTraditionally a 'b' stands for bit, while a 'B' stands for Byte (8 bits). Also traditionally, Bytes (kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes) are used when it is about storage (RAM, FDD, HDD or other), whereas when they talk about bandwidth or 'speed' (notice I put the '') , they talk in bits (gigabits per second, etc). So no, I don't think it should be Gb in the title. GB is fine, since it's talking about RAM.
- dsuth 13y agoRead the link. Samsung is claiming that the phone has '6Gb', right next to stating it has '4GB' of ROM. In reality the phone has 768MB of RAM. Not cool.
- Jugurtha 13y agoI've seen the link. My comment wasn't about it. It was about what I commented about (comment-above). And sure it's not cool. I've seen non-genuine thumb-drives have false capacity written on them, but coming from Samsung .. It's weird.
- eurleif 13y ago>I've seen the link. My comment wasn't about it. It was about what I commented about (comment-above). The comment was quoting the link...
- Jugurtha 13y agoI stand corrected. Image is the testimony. Submitter is the court clerk who corrected misspelling in his transcripts for the sake of grammar. Commenter corrected the transcript to include misspelling for the sake of authenticity. I corrected commenter's version for the sake of grammar thinking he agreed with image grammatically while he was talking authenticity. Either ways, I stand corrected.
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- cjfont 13y agoI don't see it?
- AgentConundrum 13y agoThis image: http://www.samsung.com/my/consumer-images/product/smartphone/2013/GT-S7560UWAXME/features/GT-S7560UWAXME-77-0.jpg http://www.samsung.com/my/consumer-images/product/smartphone...
- doe88 13y agoLikewise I didn't see it at first but it's on the image from the linked page http://www.samsung.com/my/consumer-images/product/smartphone/2013/GT-S7560UWAXME/features/GT-S7560UWAXME-77-0.jpg http://www.samsung.com/my/consumer-images/product/smartphone...
- ch4ch4 13y agoProbably just a case of careless copypasta-ing by a clueless marketing guy.
- jbigelow76 13y agoIt's in both the image and spec table, making carelessness seem less likely to me, but you never know.
- vlad 13y agoI like Samsung products, so I'm a bit surprised here. Every page (including the one for Specifications) mentions the phone has 4 GB of "ROM" (read-only memory). Maybe the marketing person meant to say RAM instead of RAM, but if the phone does indeed have a tiny amount of RAM, then it's certainly a 'creative' way to confuse consumers. Also interesting is a big image found on several pages stating the phone has 6 GB RAM, which is pretty unambiguous. But why not state this in the specs then? If this is actually a 'creative' way of writing 6 Gb RAM, then the phone has less than 800 Megabytes of RAM. That would explain why there's no mention of RAM on the Specifications page. :) Maybe there are more 'creative' ways to explain technology on that page?
- tuananh 13y agoNever seen any manufacturer use 'Gb' for RAM instead of 'GB'. It's probably Samsung's intention.