I just received my HTC One x upgrade today. It says on the box it is 16gb but when I checked the storage in Settings, it says the total phone storage is only 10.52gb. Can someone explain this?

You mean HTC One S right?

It's something that every company does. They state the storage capacity at 16GB. But it is partitioned with something like 2GB for app downloads, 3GB for the Android operating system itself. This leaves you with just 10.5GB for user storage.

Every company does it and has done for years. It'll never change.

No it's the one X lol ah ok thanks for explaining. Was worried something wasn't right lol

No worries. And i had no idea they released a One X with 16GB storage. I thought they only released the 32GB one.

One good thing about the One X is that if you go to the Android Play store you can download "Dropbox" you can get 25GB (or 50GB, can't remember) of online storage. So you can back up your files and stuff online and access it across your mobile & PC/laptop/

I didn't know there was a 32gb lol
Thanks for the tip, I have dropbox already installed but wasn't sure what it was for. So could I store music (for example) on that which my phone could still access through it's music player or is it more of a back up storage?

It's more of a back up thing but you could do that.

I recommend Google Music for streaming music from your pc/internet to your phone. However be aware that this will use up your 3G data if you're not on Wi-Fi. So i don't recommend doing it too often unless you have unlimited data.

https://play.google.com/music/listen

Should already be installed on your phone.

Dropbox is not strictly a backup in the traditional sense of saving everything. What it does is synchronise a folder (and subfolders) to the cloud, and from the cloud to any device you connect to it. You install it on your PC, Mac etc and it puts a sub folder in your My Documents. Anything you save to this folder gets uploaded to their servers. If you then install it on a second PC every thing will get copied down again to that one, and changes made on either will get reflected to the other.

The cloud versions can be accessed from the web if you’re away from the PC, and it also retains a version history which is very handy when you accidentally overwrite something

Because of data usage on a phone it works slightly differently. The dropbox app will show you the file names, folders etc but it doesn’t download anything till you actually click on it. This does mean you can in theory have a drop box account with 25GB on it but only 10GB of free space on your phone because all the files won’t be there till you ask for them, though each time you do download one you’ll eat up space.

You can automate the syncing on your phone if you want using a 3rd party app called folder sync lite. This is a little complicated to set up because it’s quite flexible option wise. It will allow you for instance to automate a one way sync of a dropbox folder called current favourite tunes to a phone folder called music and only synchronise when connected via wifi