This is all irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that the phone was sold by Verizon reps the same way the street understood the internal memory -- 8GB less formatting, leaving you with 7GB and change.
HTC and Verizon Wireless had plenty of time to alert consumers and the press about the "mistake." They must have known about this and figured "why bother correct it? It's not OUR mistaken assumption." Well.... they have two problems:
(1) HTC's website says 8GB internal memory. In the marketplace, the standard for listing memory is the full capacity which is always less formatting. But here, HTC didn't bother alerting the public that this amount was not comparable to other phone models and thus had a duty to make this clear.
(2) VZW's own reps sold it as every customer assumed. They can't deny their own liability.
It's a mess. They told me a software update should fix the problem. They are probably trying to figure out why they thought they'd get away with this and are wondering whether they should prepare some type of settlement in anticipation of some class action lawyer punishing them.
I'm guessing we'll see them either do something within a month or two or we'll see some lawyer file a class action. Deep pockets, avoidable and potentially intentional "error." Who knows. Bottom line is that this phone has too RAM that doesn't mount for the foreseeable future.
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