Storage on the Samsung Galaxy S4 is a hot button issue as of late, but today AT&T revealed it has a solution, albeit one you've got to pay extra to access.
Starting May 10, the company will carry a 32GB version of Samsung's flagship phone, priced at $249.99.
A two-year agreement is part of the package, and for that extra storage customers will pay $50 more than the charge for the 16GB version.
So far, AT&T is the only U.S. carrier to announce a 32GB flavor of the phone, something it did haphazardly last month when it was forced to clarify pricing for the models of the S4 it planned to carry.
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Over the weekend, a swelling of customer groans about the actual available storage on the 16GB S4 started to surface.
Complaints centered around a less-than-advertised amount of internal space: factory software reportedly leaves the device with less than 9GB of user-accessible memory (a 16GB user wrote in to Android Central that the usable space he/she had was 8.82GB).
In response, Samsung said users have the choice of upping their storage through a microSD card, which can add up to 64GB. The card is not included with the phone, however, and must be purchased separately.
Presumably the bumped-up version on AT&T will have less than 32GB of internal storage available thanks to the software, high-res display and the phone's other "more powerful features," space-suckers pointed out by Samsung itself, but a small consolation is that it's at least more than what's available with the standalone 16GB model.
All this comes after Sprint and T-Mobile had to slightly push back initial availability of the device, an issue Samsung said was caused by "overwhelming global demand" for the phone.
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With this latest storage woe bump, Samsung has to hope the S4's American release smooths itself out before long. Knock on wood.
