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Because 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 ago
Where can I turn on this feature?
- patrickaljord 11y ago
  Slide to the assistant, if your phones is full, it will suggest deleting photos that have been copied to the cloud already.
untog 11y ago
I listen to music on my (underground, subway) commute to work, so I really need that storage.
- onion2k 11y ago
  Half 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 ago
    If I had absolutely nothing else on my phone - no apps, no photos, no videos, sure.
    - onion2k 11y ago
      That'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 ago
        just 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 ago
  Agreed. 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 ago
That's cool until you go to a place that doesn't have cell phone coverage or wifi. Then you are completely screwed.
- cheepin 11y ago
  That'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 ago
      Yes, 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 ago
        It'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 ago
        simply 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 ago
I tend to listen to my music away from wi-fi and I'd soak up my monthly limit inside of a day easy.

o_____________o 11y ago

> new auto-delete of photos that have been copied to the cloud in Google Photo Source on that?

julbaxter 11y ago

Where can I turn on this feature?

patrickaljord 11y ago
Slide to the assistant, if your phones is full, it will suggest deleting photos that have been copied to the cloud already.

untog 11y ago

I listen to music on my (underground, subway) commute to work, so I really need that storage.

onion2k 11y ago
Half 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 ago
  If I had absolutely nothing else on my phone - no apps, no photos, no videos, sure.
  - onion2k 11y ago
    That'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 ago
      just 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 ago
Agreed. 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 ago

That's cool until you go to a place that doesn't have cell phone coverage or wifi. Then you are completely screwed.

cheepin 11y ago
That'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 ago
    Yes, 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 ago
      It'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 ago
      simply 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 ago

I tend to listen to my music away from wi-fi and I'd soak up my monthly limit inside of a day easy.