Pretty much what the title says. I have a friend looking at the Nexus 4 and they want only the 8 gig, but I find that to be not enough. I have that much on my S3, but I have a 32gig SD card so I'm fine. But, without the SD card option in the N4, I don't find the 8 gig model to be worth it.
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Total space 5.67gb
Available space 2.63gb
I'm completely satisfied with the 8gb model
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All depends on what your phone use is like. I play games and watch movies on my tablet and have an iPod for music. All photos get synced to dropbox and deleted from the phone so 8gb model is more than fine for me. All depends on how you use the phone.
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Do not buy. I got the 16 cause my music basically fills the 8gb alone. You don't want the feeling of having to constantly monitor your usage.
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They ended up with the 16gb model. I played with it a little. Wished I cld get 4.2.2. I miss it
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well that depends on USER needs....
i have the 16GB ver. and have 7GB free... ithought the 16GB won't be enough cause i had 32GB on my Sensation 4G and used 28GB BUT somehow on the nexus 16GB is more than enough for me...
so it depends.....
best regards,
baraks.
It really depends on your workflow. I wanted a 16GB but it was so hard to get when the Nexus 4 was initially released so I settled with an 8GB. And so far I have been managing. I really don't play a lot of games or store movies on my phone, I use a tablet for that because of the screen real estate and the bigger battery. I use google music to store and stream my music and I have a dropbox and Box.net account where I store pictures and whatever files I may need. after about 4 months with this phone I still have about 1.5GB free memory which I think will be enough until the Nexus 5 comes out.
Why won't it be enough? Sync everything online. All my music (90gbs of them) sync with google. I have unlimited Data so it's right there when I need it. Documents are stored on Google Drive and movies, well I'm sure the device would fit more than 5 DVDrips.
For my usage (Surfing, Music, XDA, Youtube) 16 GB are enough. I have ROMs, at least one Nandroid Backup and such stuff on it.
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Can you get more memory by removing apps on the nexus 7.I saw the nexus 7 8gb have only 5.9gb
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I think you're better off putting all media in the cloud, and only apps on the nexus. Then figure out how to use a usb stick during the times you might need your media offline. That was my plan with another tablet anyway, but I never actually needed to use my flash drive... In over a year... Its good to know it can be made available if you do need it though. I did use over 8gb space though, so I bought 16gb nexus. I am gifting the 8gb nexus to someone who uses a kindle fire without running out of room. The device you need depends entirely on your usage and availability of wifi or data tethering.
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josefmawas said:
Can you get more memory by removing apps on the nexus 7.I saw the nexus 7 8gb have only 5.9gb
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The first 2 GBs are taken up by Android and the file system. Not much you can do.
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Hmm.... I only use nexus 7 for some hd games, surfing, YouTube. All my videos, music are already on my galaxy s2. I think I can live with 8gb
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I bought the nexus 4 8gb. too small i know buts thats what i can afford.
any way can some one explaine why the storage capacitiy is only 6 gb?
thats a real let down.
AW: [Q] A math problem with the storage size?!
It's because the system takes about 2GB of storage. So no "math problem" but some irritating advertisement.
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This is no different than any other device. The same is true for any other android device and yes even the iPhone. The system ROM will always require a small portion of available space
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As above plus have you ever seen a HDD that was advertised as e.g 500gb and actually had that 500 as usable space
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MattSkeet said:
As above plus have you ever seen a HDD that was advertised as e.g 500gb and actually had that 500 as usable space
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<pedantic>Every 500GB HDD I've seen has at least 500GB of user-addressable space. Though not 500GiB.</pedantic>
marnel47 said:
This is no different than any other device. The same is true for any other android device and yes even the iPhone. The system ROM will always require a small portion of available space
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No. On the iPhone the nand is larger than what is advertised. If you buy a 16GB phone there is a 20GB+ nand in there so that the user can access the 16GB that was advertised.
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Where did you get this? There was a 20+ NAND built in but I could only use 14 in my 16 gig version.
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Where did you get this? There was a 20+ NAND built in but I could only use 14 in my 16 gig version.
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I am talking about the iPhone 5/4/4S
Users that use iDevices get the full space as advertised, probably because it costs more anyways.
Android devices are cheaper so they couldn't care much about delivering whats advertised.
Any how, you shouldn't have any issues with an 8GB N4.
Considering DropBox (You can get 18GB of Dropbox space for as little as $5. I've personally bought it from here http://www.ebay.ca/itm/160943243088?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
I don't play games on my phone so that wont waste space either.
I just have about a gig of music on my phone.
Hello I plan to buy a nexus 4 next week but i dont if i should buy the 8gb just to save a little money & for it to come faster or should i just buy the 16gb ?
I think you should get the 16gb if you have the money in my case I wanted to save as much as I could and got the 8gb I dont store too many songs and always backup my pics to the cloud. Still have 4 gb of free memory.
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You really need to give more info on how you plan on using the device. 8GB is just enough for a decent music library, a fair number of smaller apps and possibly a large HD game or a movie.
16GB is about right for me with my music, a movie, two large games (>1GB each), a Titanium backup, a CWM backup, some photos/videos and other random downloaded files.
better to shell out the extra cash, then to find out that you should have bought the 16GB.
Buy the 16gb if you ever plane to play on the nexus or you listening to music offline.
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Buy the 16gb if you ever plane to play on the nexus or you listening to music offline.
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I stream my music online so i wont need to use the storage on the nexus for music. But i also heard that 16gb takes a longer time to be delivered? is this true?
Mine came the day after I ordered it. Earlier there was much higher demand for the 16GB N4 so it took longer to deliver. Right now not many people will be buying N4s so I don't see why it would take any longer than the 8GB version to be delivered.
I've the 16Go model since February and I'm really happy with it. My previous phone had 8Go of storage and I feel it was quite short for my use. Now I haven't anymore problem of storage.
The nexus came to me in 5 days after ordering on the playstore (sunday included).
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J3COMPUTERSERVICES said:
I think you should get the 16gb if you have the money in my case I wanted to save as much as I could and got the 8gb I dont store too many songs and always backup my pics to the cloud. Still have 4 gb of free memory.
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Can u plz confirm it how much storage do u actually get on 8GB nexus 4? Because some storage out of this 8GB will be used by OS, so how much one exactly gets?
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omer7 said:
Can u plz confirm it how much storage do u actually get on 8GB nexus 4? Because some storage out of this 8GB will be used by OS, so how much one exactly gets?
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It's about 5GB or so
Yea bro always go for more cause it could always help in the long run especially if u like to flash roms and things and music
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I have the 16gb, and it has 12.something available gbs, so I expect the 8gb to be at around 4-5gb of available space. Keep that in mind, it's pretty low.
5.67 gigs available to user..enough for apps but maybe not enough for music and pics..
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wow I just order my brothers nexus 4 yesterday it coming tomorrow in the morning that some fast shipping. I order a 8gb to see how much the system takes.
Hey guys,
I want an android device that can sync with google music.
Cant find a lot of them in France...
Maybe you guys have heard about som cool devices abroad?
I'm looking for : Compact, Hight capacity, slot for SD card, decent audio quality.
I'm not regarding on the price if the playeur match what i want.
Cheers guys and thanks for the help,
Nexus 4 only comes in two sizes. 8gb and 16gb. As long as you have the Google music app it can sync with the music you have uploaded to Google music
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Warbuff said:
Nexus 4 only comes in two sizes. 8gb and 16gb. As long as you have the Google music app it can sync with the music you have uploaded to Google music
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If I'm not mistaken he already has an 8GB N4 and is looking to buy a second much smaller device with a high capacity to listen to music on. If that is the case OP, just buy one of the numerous low end galaxy phones because most (if not all) of them come with an SD slot and with Samsung you're likely to be updated to a reasonable extent.
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If I'm not mistaken he already has an 8GB N4 and is looking to buy a second much smaller device with a high capacity to listen to music on. If that is the case OP, just buy one of the numerous low end galaxy phones because most (if not all) of them come with an SD slot and with Samsung you're likely to be updated to a reasonable extent.
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Thanks for clearing it up. Try a galaxy player from Samsung
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I don't get why you would need a second Android device, why not save yourself some money and get yourself a sansa clip zip or plus 4gb($35 on Amazon)...it has an expandable sd slot, install rockbox and you've got a great mp3 player with great sound out the box at an unbeatable price. It's what I use, read up on it....I know it's not what you asked but it's another option.
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Hello. Why people buy this phone? It very low storage (16gb). I buy note 2 16gb internal 32gb sd, why people get nexus 4?
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Price, cloud storage.
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Yep agree with above and below posts, silly me
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Why even bother
But why? Dont understand, 16gb is very old device? New device more space.
Mine show 13 gig, why it does not show 16 gig instead?
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Mine show 13 gig, why it does not show 16 gig instead?
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OS takes 3 GB.
Because we don't want a massive 5.5 inch display, we want something more portable that we can use one handed. And 16GB is more then enough. Unless you have like 20 GB of music (I only keep 3 GB of music or so my my phone), you really don't need an SD card slot. And Nexus updates and AOSP really top it off for us on XDA, not to mention the price without a contract. You can't even put apps on the SD card anymore, so SD cards are pretty much useless now. On a tablet though, I understand the need for an SD card for movies and whatnot. 16GB also does not make a device outdated. People don't look at 16GB iPhone 5s and think its outdated (Well the hardware at least...).
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But why? Dont understand, 16gb is very old device? New device more space.
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Because to some people space is not the first reason why they buy Nexus 4. They dont want to store entire music collection, or whole library of videos, or lifetime of pictures on their phone. If you lose it; good luck finding it with all your precious personal data.
Its common sense not sure why its a hard question for you.
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svtln said:
But why? Dont understand, 16gb is very old device? New device more space.
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Talk proper language troll,..and I'll kick a Samsung note 2 off a cliff
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Why? Why u put many many dirty files in ur note 2? Why u compare compare 2 phones with such different prices? I no understand.
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svtln said:
Hello. Why people buy this phone? It very low storage (16gb). I buy note 2 16gb internal 32gb sd, why people get nexus 4?
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U need huge storage to store your indian porn?
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You can't even put apps on the SD card anymore, so SD cards are pretty much useless now. On a tablet though, I understand the need for an SD card for movies and whatnot. 16GB also does not make a device outdated. People don't look at 16GB iPhone 5s and think its outdated (Well the hardware at least...).
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That is pretty much it. I realy don't feel like I'm lacking any space on my nexus 4 and I barely even use cloud services. The only cloud service I actually use is google drive but that's just to back up my pictures and documents in case I lose my phone.
I remember when I had my Nokia 8 with 16gb onboard storage and a 32gb SD card and I barely used half of the total storage space that was available. So 16gb on the Nexus 4 is more than enough.
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It's $250 off contract, nuff said
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I didn't even notice that having a more limited space (by that I mean cant-be-expanded space, not the 16gb, 16gb is well enough) would work that nice for my own organization.
I'm one that still have a 500gb desktop, a 320gb laptop and some SD cards for data transport. And not really because I can't afford more. It's just that, every time I almost fill up a drive/device and think on expanding it, I happen to see how much useless clutter I'm keeping in life. I'm happier since I took the detachment path.
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Why You need more than 13Gb of space?! Really... for what?!
I only have one response for threads like this...
*FACEPALM*
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beerope said:
U need huge storage to store your indian porn?
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By far the most awesomest reply EVER! :'D
He must be mesmerized because of that "big screen" on the note 2 for private purposes.
*Ifuknowwhatimean*
one of the more stupid threads I've read in a while.
Doesn't a note 2 have Google to find out why a nexus 4 is one off the top dogs ?
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