Samsung Fooling customers by writing 6Gb RAM instead of 768MB

http://www.samsung.com/my/consumer/mobile-devices/smartphone/android-os/GT-S7560UWAXME

by techaddict009 • 13 years ago

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MaysonL• 13 years ago

That should be Gb in the title, not GB.

Jugurtha4• 13 years ago

Traditionally 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• 13 years ago

Read 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.

onestone• 13 years ago

It should be Gb, because in the image it's Gb, not GB. Look closely.

cjfont2• 13 years ago

I don't see it?

AgentConundrum• 13 years ago

This image: http://www.samsung.com/my/consumer-images/product/smartphone...

doe88• 13 years ago

Likewise 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...

ch4ch4• 13 years ago

Probably just a case of careless copypasta-ing by a clueless marketing guy.

jbigelow76• 13 years ago

It's in both the image and spec table, making carelessness seem less likely to me, but you never know.

Robby20122• 13 years ago

I 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.

zebra• 13 years ago

I think that this is just an error. (Maybe) There is no phone on this earth with 6GB RAM

Robby20122• 13 years ago

It doesn't say 6GB of RAM, it says 6Gb which is not the same, one stands for Gigabits and the other for Gigabytes;

1 Gigabyte = 8 Gigabits // 6 Gbits = 768 Megabytes

polemic• 13 years ago

Also: "ROM"?

cjfont2• 13 years ago

Nah, that one is fine.

vlad• 13 years ago

I 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• 13 years ago

Never seen any manufacturer use 'Gb' for RAM instead of 'GB'. It's probably Samsung's intention.

Samsung Fooling customers by writing 6Gb RAM instead of 768MB

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