New smartphone - "Device memory is full..."

Today I received my new Curve 8520 and excitedly charged it and activated it. I was disappointed to discover that when I went to test the camera out, before I even took a picture, an error/warning popped up: "Device memory is full. Please save pictures to media card."
WHY???
I have never used the phone nor put anything on the memory. In Settings/Options it says that memory available is more than 100mb. Does anyone know how to fix this? Why would this be the case on a brand new phone?
Thank you very much for your help.

Don't know why it said that.
But it is recommended that you save pictures to a Media Card, altough it is not required.
Open your camera > press the Menu key > options > scroll to the bottom and see what your save to options are set to?
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    Once you have freed some room on the internal drive, this liitle neat program will show you what is taking the largest amount of space on your internal drive.
    http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
    After a scan, right click on the big squares to "revel in Finder" to show you what's taking the largest amount of space, be warned it also opens up hidden system files and folders, which you won't be able to move. So concentrate on what's inthe Users folder.
    Likely if you have a lot of Movies this is the biggest culprit on most standard internal hard drives. Also if you have something in iTunes that's auto-downloading something like PodCasts and not deleting the older ones and you forget. So go there and fix things and that can free up drive space.
    If you bought a small SSD with your new Mac, then the price of that SSD has come back to haunt you with low storage space, you will have to think carefully what you can live without on the internal drive.
    Once you have slimmed things down, TimeMachine will update to reflect your slimmer internal drive. What this means is there is only one copy of your data on the ExtraStorage#1 drive.
    You need to maintain two copies of your data at all times on seperate hardware, so now you need ANOTHER storage drive (ExtraStorage#2) to copy everythinng of ExtraStorage#1, or else if you drop or have a mechanical problem with ES#1 all that data will be gone!
    If you wish to learn more then I suggest reading these two links
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/16276201#16276201
    http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html

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