So Samsung let the pre order page go live for the Samsung K Zoom, it’s smartphone with a camera built in. Only one issue is the internal storage is 8gb with probably 3-4gb free for the user. I’m hoping it’s more than 4gb but I don’t know the exact figure yet.

So in preparation, I looked at all the apps installed on my Samsung Galaxy S5 along with the cache file sizes, and created a long list. I recall moving from the Samsung Note 3 with its 32gb storage to the S5, and really struggling trying to install all my apps. Now I am having to scale back again.

The biggest set back will be lack of games that can be installed. On my S5 I have 120 apps installed of which 40 are games. So far I reckon I might be able to install 5 small sized games.

But then I totalled all the apps are would need on the K Zoom and this total came to 3gb. Often it is not the app file size that is the issue, but more the cache. For example Flickr with its cache totals 128mb. Tweetings is 150mb. Google+ is 180mb. Hangouts is 70mb. Chrome is 250mb. Greader Pro is 100mb. And finally Gmail is 181mb. That’s a grand total of 1.059gb just for 7 apps.

Of course, as more and more system apps get updated, available memory will shrink. And the more you use the phone, the larger caches will increase.

Now before anyone says it has a memory card, it does but that memory card cannot be used for app installations. If you are lucky apps may save photos and media to the card, but that is about it.

Somehow, I need to survive with such a critically low memory. If there was going to be one reason why I cannot keep this phone, the memory would be it. Samsung should have at least given this 16gb storage.