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Am thinking about picking one of these up for my daughter, 32GB seems a bit stingy though, will that be enough for apps and games?

ghaff 7y ago
It does sound stingy although it's mostly media (audio and video) that's the storage killer.
extesy 7y ago
My daughter has 64GB version and she often struggles with insufficient storage. And she doesn't really have much media, just a bunch of games and apps.
- coldtea 7y ago
  Depends on the game, an AAA could be several GB by itself. On the other hand you can have 100s of smaller games on a few GB...
  - masklinn 7y ago
    > On the other hand you can have 100s of smaller games on a few GB… You need really small games, Monument Valley or King of Dragon Path are not especially big games but they're both well above 200MB. Though you can certainly fit games in way less (Shaun Inman's Horror Vacui and Last Rocket are 1.xMB, Passage is 110K) the data-light games are few and far between.
leetcrew 7y ago
I would say it's pretty rare that younger people store media locally on their devices these days. I personally would like to but my music collection is >125 GB of mostly mp3 v0 files so I don't bother. currently I'm using 28 GB of storage on my pixel 2 (including os install). 32 GB would be a bit cramped, but probably sufficient for the next couple years if she doesn't have tons of games installed.
- iamnotacrook 7y ago
  Hmmm... You say that but my music collection is 3+ tb of flacs so that's not fitting on any sd card currently. I have a 64gb phone with a 200gig SD card in and whenever I consider getting a larger one, or a phone with more storage I realise that there's no point as I'm only thing to get another free percent of music on there. Given that I routinely copy/listen/delete music to my phone I'm not sure in practice there's a lot of difference between a 64/128gb phone with an SD card slot and just a 32/64gb phone without it.
  - leetcrew 7y ago
    if you routinely copy a portion of your music to your phone, of course it makes sense to get more storage. I just don't bother doing that, because of the inevitable frustration of trying to play a song that isn't actually on my phone. rather than switch between streaming and local music all the time, I've just given in to streaming.
    - iamnotacrook 7y ago
      "if you routinely copy a portion of your music to your phone, of course it makes sense to get more storage." Well, if you've only got a portion then the only difference between having 10% and 99% is how frequently you have to copy new music on/how long you can go without having to copy new music, at least in my case, where I delete albums off the phone as I play them, and copying music between linux server and android phone via samba/wifi is fast and simple. Streaming - ugh... i use public transport including the tube, I fly (sometimes), I end up in areas without perfect coverage, and I listen to flac so you can't stream that well, and it would take a lot of data, and the choice is limited, and I'd be renting music not owning it forever. Streaming doesn't solve a single problem for me (my daughter loves it, though).
      - lozenge 7y ago
        Listening to flac on the tube... pick your battles! Can you hear the lack of compression over the rattling and shrieking?
alistairSH 7y ago
Yes, it's stingy. No, it won't be enough. It might be enough if she doesn't want/need to store media locally. But, if she wants to keep movies, music, and photos available offline, she'll run out fast. If you can swing it, 64gb is a much more reasonable starting point.

ghaff 7y ago

It does sound stingy although it's mostly media (audio and video) that's the storage killer.

extesy 7y ago

My daughter has 64GB version and she often struggles with insufficient storage. And she doesn't really have much media, just a bunch of games and apps.

coldtea 7y ago
Depends on the game, an AAA could be several GB by itself. On the other hand you can have 100s of smaller games on a few GB...
- masklinn 7y ago
  > On the other hand you can have 100s of smaller games on a few GB… You need really small games, Monument Valley or King of Dragon Path are not especially big games but they're both well above 200MB. Though you can certainly fit games in way less (Shaun Inman's Horror Vacui and Last Rocket are 1.xMB, Passage is 110K) the data-light games are few and far between.

leetcrew 7y ago

I would say it's pretty rare that younger people store media locally on their devices these days. I personally would like to but my music collection is >125 GB of mostly mp3 v0 files so I don't bother. currently I'm using 28 GB of storage on my pixel 2 (including os install). 32 GB would be a bit cramped, but probably sufficient for the next couple years if she doesn't have tons of games installed.

iamnotacrook 7y ago
Hmmm... You say that but my music collection is 3+ tb of flacs so that's not fitting on any sd card currently. I have a 64gb phone with a 200gig SD card in and whenever I consider getting a larger one, or a phone with more storage I realise that there's no point as I'm only thing to get another free percent of music on there. Given that I routinely copy/listen/delete music to my phone I'm not sure in practice there's a lot of difference between a 64/128gb phone with an SD card slot and just a 32/64gb phone without it.
- leetcrew 7y ago
  if you routinely copy a portion of your music to your phone, of course it makes sense to get more storage. I just don't bother doing that, because of the inevitable frustration of trying to play a song that isn't actually on my phone. rather than switch between streaming and local music all the time, I've just given in to streaming.
  - iamnotacrook 7y ago
    "if you routinely copy a portion of your music to your phone, of course it makes sense to get more storage." Well, if you've only got a portion then the only difference between having 10% and 99% is how frequently you have to copy new music on/how long you can go without having to copy new music, at least in my case, where I delete albums off the phone as I play them, and copying music between linux server and android phone via samba/wifi is fast and simple. Streaming - ugh... i use public transport including the tube, I fly (sometimes), I end up in areas without perfect coverage, and I listen to flac so you can't stream that well, and it would take a lot of data, and the choice is limited, and I'd be renting music not owning it forever. Streaming doesn't solve a single problem for me (my daughter loves it, though).
    - lozenge 7y ago
      Listening to flac on the tube... pick your battles! Can you hear the lack of compression over the rattling and shrieking?

alistairSH 7y ago

Yes, it's stingy. No, it won't be enough. It might be enough if she doesn't want/need to store media locally. But, if she wants to keep movies, music, and photos available offline, she'll run out fast. If you can swing it, 64gb is a much more reasonable starting point.