Pedestrians are reflected in a logo of Sony Corp
Pedestrians are reflected in a logo of Sony Corp outside its showroom in Tokyo July 16, 2014. Reuters/Yuya Shino

Reports unveiled that Sony Xperia M4 Aqua 8 GB has a disadvantage on its internal storage space because Android OS and exclusive apps. It resulted that the device will only allow 1.26 GB free storage space for third-party apps and data files.

Sony Xperia M4 Aqua Loses More Than Half Of Internal Storage

Sony Xperia fans who are thinking on upgrading to the Xperia M4 Aqua this year should reconsider about the latest information about its internal storage space. According to XperiaBlog, Sony Mobile severely limited the internal storage of the 8 GB model variant of Xperia M4 Aqua. Based on the images posted by the website, European model of E2303 of Xperia M4 Aqua running 26.1.A.1.100 firmware without any SIM to reduce bloatware from network carriers has only 1.26 GB free user storage space, hardly to contain tons of third-party apps and games.

Sony Xperia M4 Aqua E2303 features 8 GB internal storage space but the 4.03 GB has been consumed by Android 5.0 Lollipop while another 2.09 GB occupied pre-installed applications including the ones from Sony. This leaves around 1.26 GB free storage space for personal apps, media, photos and videos. Remainder of the space will be used for overall function of files, cache and data. Users can uninstall certain apps increase the free space but cannot be performed on every app which came out of the box.

Removing Facebook, Kobo Books, AVG and other allowed apps can give the user an additional 400 MB or more. However, it will not reach up to 2 GB free internal storage space even if those apps have been uninstalled.

According to the company’s white paper of Xperia M4 Aqua, E2303, E2353 and E2312 have at least 3 GB of free memory usable for user downloadable applications and data files but the real device only provides half of that amount. It seems like Xperia C4 is better on the internal storage department featuring 16 GB of internal storage space and even Xperia SP fared better with 5.8 user available storage space. Sony Xperia M4 Aqua 8 GB variant owners can remedy that weakness by rooting the device which currently unavailable and installing Link2SD to create a storage partition on the SD card.

Sony Xperia M4 Aqua and its dual-SIM counterpart Xperia M4 Aqua Dual are set to be shipped on most markets around the world including Asia, Europe and Middle East starting this month. It is available in different colour designs such as black, white, coral and silver.

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