In fact, according to Engadget, the Moto E has only 9 GB of
usable storage out of the box due to how much room the OS and included apps take up.
Before you accuse me of picking on the iPhone, note that the 16 GB Samsung Galaxy S5 comes with only 10.7 GB of
usable storage out of the box, compared to 12.9 GB for the iPhone 5s.
As I said in my Moto G review, where the issue was exacerbated due to having only 5 GB of
usable storage out of the box, Android 5.1.1 treats expandable storage with reluctant respect: it's possible to manually transfer some apps and games, but Motorola doesn't automatically do so.
Not exact matches
This article states that the Samsung Focus has a removable
storage slot and that you can take
out the 8 GB microSD card, put in a 16 GB microSD card, hard reset the phone, and the card will be
usable.
On the
storage front it comes with 4 GB inbuilt
storage,
out of which only 2.5 GB is
usable.
Indeed, the 8 GB of
storage in the $ 139 model actually works
out to less than 5 GB of
usable space; that's not enough to fit most HD movies or more than a couple of episodes of an HD TV show.
The One arrives with either 16 or 32 GB of
storage right
out of the box, but only 10 and 24 GB of that, respectively, are actually
usable.
When it comes to
storage, 8 GB of internal NAND is understandably limiting, with the Agora packing just 5.53 GB of
usable space
out of the box.
Moto E has 4 GB internal
storage out of which around 2.2 GB is
usable.
While the
storage is definitely light, especially considering that only 4.4 GB is available
out of the box, I found it
usable.
The device will come with a 12 GB of
usable on - board
storage, which points
out that the device will feature a total of 16 GB of internal
storage including the system files.
A big limitation that is present on all cheap Samsung phones is present here as well, and that's the low internal
storage (8 GB,
out of which around 4.5 GB of space is
usable).