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

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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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't see it?

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...

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

Also: "ROM"?

Nah, that one is fine.

That should be Gb in the title, not GB.

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.

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.

I'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.

>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...

I 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.

You are confusing me now !!

We don't want that ! I just got my nerd analytical side out. Can be scary, but it doesn't bite :)

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

Yeah but still its SAMSUNG is faking it.

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