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16gb and 32gb? Why is storage always so low?
by rjbrock 11y ago
16gb and 32gb? Why is storage always so low?
- patrickaljord 11y agoBecause most people don't need that much, especially with the new auto-delete of photos that have been copied to the cloud in Google Photo, love this feature.
- o_____________o 11y ago> new auto-delete of photos that have been copied to the cloud in Google Photo Source on that?
- julbaxter 11y agoWhere can I turn on this feature?
- patrickaljord 11y agoSlide to the assistant, if your phones is full, it will suggest deleting photos that have been copied to the cloud already.
- untog 11y agoI listen to music on my (underground, subway) commute to work, so I really need that storage.
- onion2k 11y agoHalf the memory of the basic model is enough to hold about 100 albums. Is that not enough? Maybe you could listen to some of them twice.
- untog 11y agoIf I had absolutely nothing else on my phone - no apps, no photos, no videos, sure.
- onion2k 11y agoThat's why I said half the memory.. The other half would be for apps and stuff. It'd be very interesting to see how much music people store on their phone when they use services like Spotify. I use it on a Nexus 4 and I've never had a problem with running out of space, but I don't have lots of games or anything on there. I honestly doubt it's much more than 2 or 3GB.
- saiya-jin 11y agojust because you personally don't have a need to store more things in the phone, doesn't mean other people won't have usage for these. I don't like fragile cloud solutions, so my music is offline. I find it amazingly stupid to tell other people to "just delete some of it, because you probably won't listen to it twice". My offline car navigation takes more than 10 GB, and no thank you, I won't use google maps which are not that accurate in places I go, and require constant connectivity (which makes them useless in foreign countries, or in mountains). My DCIM folder is cca 5 GB after 1 year of usage, and I shoot almost no videos which would make it explode. FFS, it's almost end of 2015, having 32 GB model as your highest offering is... pathetic.
- freebs 11y agoAgreed. I have a 64 GB iPhone 6 and over 1k songs synced to mobile on rdio. Rdio only takes up 8.4 GB, but total I have 31.1 GB used. I would have to go back to the radio if I didn't have that space, as I would probably be out of my 4 GB data plan half way through the month.
- choward 11y agoThat's cool until you go to a place that doesn't have cell phone coverage or wifi. Then you are completely screwed.
- cheepin 11y agoThat's pretty niche though. Even in that scenario, you could always offload to external storage. It seems reasonable that their phones are expected to mostly behave as phones, and not as a large photo/video repository.
- choward 11y ago> That's pretty niche though. Not really. Do you ever travel? Have you ever been on a road trip? Have you ever been on a plane? Have you ever gone camping?
- cheepin 11y agoYes, but I don't fill up my phone's storage during those activities. The issue comes up if you use your phone solely as a camera without an accompanying connection for long enough to fill up internal storage without some way to offload it. It's a situation that won't come up ever for most users of the phone, and as Wifi and Data coverage increases will become even more obscure.
- desas 11y agoIt's typical in Europe to go abroad on holiday so the only coverage is via expensive roaming - I usually take lots of photos on holiday and like to use my phone to play music in my room or by the pool. Hotel WiFi is often expensive. It's especially a problem while cruising - onboard WiFi is slow and expensive, buying a sim per country wastes time.
- saiya-jin 11y agosimply no. one example - in europe, there are still roaming charges. in mountains, there are still places with no internet at all (and it might surprise people like you, but no wifi either).
- bane 11y agoI tend to listen to my music away from wi-fi and I'd soak up my monthly limit inside of a day easy.
- legulere 11y agoTo get you to use cloud services.
- josu 11y agoThat would be great if my cell provider didn't charge me 10 bucks per GB.
- com2kid 11y agoCompared to couple of GBs Android phones came with just 3 or so years ago, 32GB is a lot. For anything except Video content (or the need for several months of offline music) 32GB is plenty.
- nine_k 11y agoI'd prefer my entire audio collection on the same device, not because I want to listen to several months of music without interruption, but to be able to choose that particular album or track that perfectly fits my mood now.
- aianus 11y agoThis is what Spotify is for.
- nine_k 11y agoOnline music works nice as long as you're in a covered area (and the data traffic is of no concern). This is true for California highways but is often false for New York subway. This can also be an issue if you happen to travel abroad.
- aianus 11y ago> This can also be an issue if you happen to travel abroad. Data abroad is dirt cheap compared to North America. $1.40 for 150mb when I lived in Vietnam. $30 for 3GB in Mexico. Much faster than Canada too.
- lcswi 11y agoSpotify does not have a quarter of my music collection.
- saiya-jin 11y agoHow hard is for some people to understand that whatever suits you, doesn't necessarily suits every single living person on this planet??? get out of your tiny little bubble for once, please. I don't see any value for me in spotify, for example. In circles around me, spotify & co penetration is well below 50%, albeit most know about it.
- afsina 11y agoI use cloud, even 16G is ok for me (I do not play games).
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoGoogle (and other companies) would very much like to sell you some cloud (gawd, I hate that word) storage.
- shirro 11y agoBecause apparently the cameras are so bad that nobody records video on them. Do you want to store your music and apps or record your kid's birthday? Tough choice.