Got 2GB Kingston MiniSD... Says Only 1901MB Available

The problem is the evil marketroids at hard drive and memory card manufacturers. 2 GB = 2 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes, or 2147483648 bytes. This is the definition used by everyone on the planet (including your phone manufacturer) except marketroids. Marketroids say 2GB = 2 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 = 2000000000 bytes. If you look at the fine print on your memory card's documentation, you will probably find this. So you have inserted a 2000000000 byte card into a device that has the correct definition of GB: 2147483648 bytes. And the phone correctly reports that your card is smaller than 2GB.

This is sort of like someone selling a quad band phone with fine print that says "quad means 3".
 
yip because the manfacturers define 1 mb different than the real definition~ they define 1 mb as 1000 kb and 1 gb as 1000mb...and so u can count the loss of kbs as the memory gets higher...
 
Does anybody know ANYTHING about compression in storage devices? There's always a certain amount of space that's lost. It has nothing to do with marketing or any business scam. Like Qwest said, it just does that. There's a certain amount of space the media itself needs to store that which you put on it.
 
Memory cards do not do compression on their own. And yes, it's a marketing scam.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=26

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=574704
 
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