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The Tab will be released next week in the UK and I don't wish to pay more than I need to, do you folks think that 16GB will be enough for general usage? How much space are you left with after installing your general apps etc?
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It depends on what you are going to use it for and if you plan on keeping your media library on it, etc.
16gb is fine for me. I throw on movie files when I'm going to be out and want to watch something (delete them when I'm done), have no use to store pictures on it, a handful of apps that I use, ebooks, etc. I use my Zune HD for music, so I've no desire to put music on it.
I figure if I start to have lots of files I'll need access to, I'll get the USB or SD Card adapter at the store and be happy that I saved a hundred bucks between the difference of a 16gb and a 32gb.
I prefer 32GB. But 16 gb should be fine as well. For music you install google music and sign up for invite, then you can upload all the music from your computer to the Cloud. It let you upload 20000 songs. Not bad. For streaming movies and videos from your computer download the plex application from market.
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16GB works for me - acutally my Tab says 9GB free space.
Most of my music streams over Google Music, before a long flight I choose the movies I need and delete old ones and Office Documents are stored in my dropbox.
Slashtop HD helps too
Just get the Samsung USB adapter and a Micro SD card w/reader and you can copy files to/from the Tab while traveling, see my post in this thread for pics and prices...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1185810
16 GB is enough for me. If the 32 GB model was $50 more, then I probably would have gotten it. Can't see paying $100 more for it.
As mentioned earlier, I also store my music library in the cloud with Google Music. I can listen to my music from my phone, tablet, and PC.
I don't store movies on it. I only store a movie or two on it temporarily. When I'm done, I delete it. I have the USB adapter and a 16 GB adapter to go along with it. I recently went on a trip, so I have 10 movies on it, quite a few apps, and pictures. I still have 7 GB left. The 10 movies I have are not HD, therefore their file size is a lot smaller than HD videos. The videos still look pretty good to me. If I'm into the clarity of the movie, then I should be watching it on my 60" TV, and not a 10" screen.
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16GB is more than enough to store a few hours of video. Easy enough to plug in the USB adapter and a thumb drive to swap content past that point.
The USB dongle and a 32GB thumb drive costs less than the extra 16GB of builtin memory.
In fact, for the $100 price delta you can get the USB dongle ($20) and two 32GB thumb drives (approx. $40 each).
I ended up with 16gb model only because Staples does not carry the 32gb model in the store and I used the $100 coupon.
I would have bought the 32gb just to have it but like others have said for the $100 price difference it really doesnt make sense. Just manage your videos and put music in the cloud, should be good with 16gb that way.
I used the $100 I would have spent towards the purchase of a new Netbook.
I now have the best of both words. With the Tab being so thin, I can store my Netbook, Tab 10.1 with the Samsung flip case, chargers, USB dongle, and cables all in a traditional netbook carrying case. I can use the Netbook for PC specific apps and certain websites that I have issues with on tablet browsers. I can use the Tab for web browsing, reading, Android apps and games.
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Thanks for the replies folks, much appreciated. I think the 16gig version will be fine for my needs, I don't think I'll be loading music onto the Tab but perhaps a film or two for trips away etc. The next decision is .... white or black!
16GB becomes 13.27Gb in fact
i went with the 16GB and found out its not enough for me (it is though on my SGS II)
- nandroid backups takes 2GB each
- i have about 90 apps installed (2GB) but
- Gameloft Games data takes a lot of space and I cant get rid of them because that Spiderman HD is sooo good !
- videos are less than 1GB
- about 15 music tracks
I grabbed the 16GB version, as I bought mine almost entirely for my photography portfolio, a cooking app, and a pdf reader. I've got 12GB free, and probably wont go much below that. If I'm feeling adventurous in a year or so and I still have it, I'll look into the cost of 128Gb memory, and look at upgrading the memory myself (I'm assuming the tablet features dual 64Gb chips for a total of 128Gb, or 16GB, but i dont know until i can either take it apart or see internals
jeandujardin01 said:
16GB becomes 13.27Gb in fact
i went with the 16GB and found out its not enough for me (it is though on my SGS II)
- nandroid backups takes 2GB each
- i have about 90 apps installed (2GB) but
- Gameloft Games data takes a lot of space and I cant get rid of them because that Spiderman HD is sooo good !
- videos are less than 1GB
- about 15 music tracks
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I only keep one or two backups on my devices, the rest get offloaded to my pc.
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I only keep one or two backups on my devices, the rest get offloaded to my pc.
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Does this require rooting my Tab?
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I only keep one or two backups on my devices, the rest get offloaded to my pc.
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. Seriously, why in the world would anyone want to store multiples of 2gb backups on the actual device. Does not make any sense.
This is funny but i get the feeling that most of the people that replied to UKseagull think that UK is one of the states in US.
GUYZ WE DONT HAVE ANY GOOGLE CLOUD PRODUCTS, SAME GOES TO NETFLIX AND HULU. WE CANNOT BUY BOOKS OR MOVIES ON ANDROID MARKET EIHER.
But in regards to the question, 16GB should be more than enough,
My problem is 3G or not 3G, I know i have mny phone with me but on Tathering battery will last me few hours, than again Tab with 3G means i have to charge 2 devices at the same time.
3G will give me option to stream films online (thank you adobe) but than again thats another £10 to pay for new sim with unlimited data on P&G :/
Any good pros and cons?
I'd think that streaming films via 3G would be quite expensive, you can soon whiz through a 500mb data cap.
The 3G version is £100 extra to the wifi unit, but the MicroSD slot that comes with it is a plus.
Get a wifi tablet and a mobile hot spot. If you have a smart phone and laptop, they could share the hotspots and help eliminate the need for higher data on your smartphone. Just a thought to see if that is a better deal to double down on the mobile hotspots.
Regarding 16 vs 32. I bought 32gb knowing that expansion would have to be via USB cable plus drive. Its okay for stationary use but not the best for travel and mobile. But if you can be very selective on your media, 16gb will work fantastic.
I have about 600 songs, which are longer and larger files since they are remixes. Then 2 TV shows @ 550mb each and 1 movie @ 1.2gb. They are Standard Def movies. I have an ample list of apps installed as well. Barely any pictures. I have 18gb left on my storage. So I am doing quite well with 32gb. I could easily fit an ample supply of movies and music to fill it up. But I'm waiting to see what is available on the Samsung Hub in HD to download to my device. I listen to music at my desk at work via the media hub. So it charges while it plays, and then I grab and go to meetings with it. Saves me towing my iPOD with me everywhere. It stays in my Jeep and then only ejects for the gym. So my Tab is my work and travel entertainment device.
If you had a 16gb, you would be nearly full with the above list of media. So you would need to delete and make room for more or use the USB adapter plus external drive of sorts. Don't get me wrong it's nice to be able to do that.... but may not always be practical with the current case+stands out there. If you were wanting to watch a movie on a plane, it may be a bit much to drag out and spread on your tray table. or if you are in a hotel and want to watch a movie, it'll have to be on your tab storage if you use the HDMI adapter to connect to the hotel TV. You can't have external storage and HDMI at same time. I think downloading a movie while traveling would be nice to watch in a hotel room via HDMI adapter. Cheaper than a hotel and you can at least take it with you on your tablet for the trip to rewatch of finish if you fall asleep.
These scenarios are probably not applicable to most but if you travel alot you might appreciate the simplicity of the larger storage. Plus you can't change you mind later without loosing money on selling old and buy the more expensive 32gb. I hope that helps give a different perspective.
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32 GB and you will feel good about your purchase. Spend the extra money. Don't be cheap.
The SGT 10.1 is not out in Canada yet so I have to wait a little longer.
I think I'll go with the 16GB version.
If I need extra space then I will go with the Wi-Drive (Kingston). Rumor has it an app is in the works for Android. My other option is to use a microSd card in a SG2.
I'm thinking of buying LG Nexus 4 but before that i wanted to ask people whether they felt the need to have an extra card slot for the phone. Also how much out of 16 GB is available for personal use...any general comments about the phone itself would be helpful...
Cheers!
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I'm thinking of buying LG Nexus 4 but before that i wanted to ask people whether they felt the need to have an extra card slot for the phone. Also how much out of 16 GB is available for personal use...any general comments about the phone itself would be helpful...
Cheers!
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I think about 13 was available? A quick google might answer that question more precisely I'm not using the phone for music or lots of movies. I don't expect to run into difficulties in that area.
16gb is plenty,
NEXUS 4 USER
To be honest, 16GB is too much space for me. I have around 1.3 gigs of my dev stuff, some apps (NFS Most Wanted People complain all the time about how they need 32/64GB of storage but the only reason I can think of needing that much is for music and movies. You can stream those as well so it's not a big deal.
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16GB is probably enough for most, but you can always get a wifi storage device if you need more.
i just bought a pqi air drive and put a 32GB class 10 sd card in it for movies/ music etc.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/PQI-...orage-to-Smartphones-and-Tablets-254927.shtml
also check out the Ravpower wireless drive.
http://www.amazon.com/RAVPower®-Wireless-Drive-For-Smartphones-Lightning/dp/B00AQUMZRA
First of all, I don't own nexus 4 but a galaxy s3 with expendable micro sd slot. But I do want to get nexus 4 as well!!
From my personal usage, 16gig is simply not enough. I play lots of heavy games most of them from gameloft, each will take >1gig space and I do shot pictures videos and have tons of other applications installed as well.
I put videos, pictures and musics on sd card but still, only 2.3gig left on internal storage.
I know maybe vanilla android will be smaller than touchwiz but considering >10gig video and pictures that I have, 16gig just won't be enough .
Of course, you may not be like me and can use cloud storage. In the end, it's how you use your phone for the most, and regardless nexus 4 or other phones, it will be the same.
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I've not installed any games yet, but I imagine once I do, the space will begin to go quickly. Music I'm less worried about, I stream mainly from YouTube etc. Video recording will be interesting though.
I would have preferred an SD card option, just because it's a fallback. An SD model would have probably convinced me to go for an 8GB N4, but no SD meant I had to go for the 16GB one.
The lack of OTG on this phone is a worry, but at the end of the day, considering the relative ubiquity of WiFi/3G internet in most developed countries, I don't think it's a big problem for streaming video, music etc, so really it's just games and what not that might be the struggle. I'm thinking of setting up a dropbox, (First time for me) which would be good for videos, and music and what not. I'm just not convinced of the price thats all. 2GB isn't very much, and as I have a pretty unlimited web server I could take advantage of that.
h.han said:
First of all, I don't own nexus 4 but a galaxy s3 with expendable micro sd slot. But I do want to get nexus 4 as well!!
From my personal usage, 16gig is simply not enough. I play lots of heavy games most of them from gameloft, each will take >1gig space and I do shot pictures videos and have tons of other applications installed as well.
I put videos, pictures and musics on sd card but still, only 2.3gig left on internal storage.
I know maybe vanilla android will be smaller than touchwiz but considering >10gig video and pictures that I have, 16gig just won't be enough .
Of course, you may not be like me and can use cloud storage. In the end, it's how you use your phone for the most, and regardless nexus 4 or other phones, it will be the same.
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I m coming from SGS3 16Gb+32Gb mem card.
And I had to adjust. I have some music (had to choose what I m not listening to too often, haha).
About 1.5 Gb of nandroid+5/600 mb of rom and flashable stuff.
I ve had to stop walking around with whole seasons of TV, that s for sure But it's doable.
In the end, no matter how much space you do have, it ll get filled up with things that you don't actually need, so that s OK to pick and chose I ve got to say that I m not having any issue thinking about apps or not, I just get all in there and it fits!
So that s my experience, all in all, you have to think how to adjust, cause you ll have to do so.
Also, cloud storage? I ve got 1.8 Gb of data/month on my plan so yeah, that won't work. Since it s not when I m near Wi-Fi that I need to be mobile !
I wanna say that before I had the Nexus 4 I was thinking that 8GB is more than enough! And in my country there is only the 16GB version but boy I am glad that this was the case! On 16GB you have 12.92GB (don't ask me why theres 3GB less I don't know how system can take more than 1GB) and on 8GB you have only 5.67GB!
Now i have like 2,5GB free space left on my 16GB version! It is okay I wouldn't mind having more space though I didn't have any problems yet. But I noticed some games are very big if you are a games 16GB might be too small (I'm no gamer though most of my space is taken by music).
AW: Any felt the need of sd card yet?
My storage was full. but after getting rid of all the junk.. old roms etc it was ..ok:thumbup:
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It has been a compromise for me. I'm also a musician and like to carry my entire music collection with me. I wasn't a fan of using the cloud because when I'm underground in the subway and I want to hear a song and if it's not cached I'm screwed. It has taken a bit of adjustment. I have a 32GB GS3 with a 64GB card and between music, videos, movies, pictures I filled more than half of the 64gb card.
I also don't have as many apps installed on my N4. I've definitely had to scale things down a bit. Although, I am having an easier time dealing with it then I thought I would.
I have 8gb and what I miss from my s2 (16gb + 32gb sdcard) is all the backups, roms I had.. Besides that, everything is fine
I bought the 16 GB version and haven't needed one yet. I ended up buying a 32GB Nexus 7 which is mainly used for heavy games like Vice City and NFS, leaving me with quite a bit of storage left on my Nexus 4. I stream all my music from Google play since I have unlimited data and Wi-Fi is pretty much everywhere I go.
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Any comments on the performance compared to S3? physically as well? I know that adreno 320 is much better than the mali 400 but by how much?
graffixnyc said:
It has been a compromise for me. I'm also a musician and like to carry my entire music collection with me. I wasn't a fan of using the cloud because when I'm underground in the subway and I want to hear a song and if it's not cached I'm screwed. It has taken a bit of adjustment. I have a 32GB GS3 with a 64GB card and between music, videos, movies, pictures I filled more than half of the 64gb card.
I also don't have as many apps installed on my N4. I've definitely had to scale things down a bit. Although, I am having an easier time dealing with it then I thought I would.
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use google music. even when i used sd i couldnt put my collection on it, i had to cut it in half. with gm i have my entire collection with me whereever i go. i live in two countries with long travels in between without connection - its as easy as tapping on the stuff i wanna listen to while being offline. you can make it even easier if you use playlists. i wasnt sure about cloud either but the way i see it, it works pretty well. i'd even say better than cutting my collection in half to fit 32gb.
graffixnyc said:
It has been a compromise for me. I'm also a musician and like to carry my entire music collection with me. I wasn't a fan of using the cloud because when I'm underground in the subway and I want to hear a song and if it's not cached I'm screwed. It has taken a bit of adjustment. I have a 32GB GS3 with a 64GB card and between music, videos, movies, pictures I filled more than half of the 64gb card.
I also don't have as many apps installed on my N4. I've definitely had to scale things down a bit. Although, I am having an easier time dealing with it then I thought I would.
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did you read what i posted about wireless drives? might help you.
molesarecoming said:
use google music. even when i used sd i couldnt put my collection on it, i had to cut it in half. with gm i have my entire collection with me whereever i go. i live in two countries with long travels in between without connection - its as easy as tapping on the stuff i wanna listen to while being offline. you can make it even easier if you use playlists. i wasnt sure about cloud either but the way i see it, it works pretty well. i'd even say better than cutting my collection in half to fit 32gb.
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I've been using GM. The only thing that sucks is sometimes I will be underground in the subway and feel like hearing a song out of the blue. If it's not a song that is cached then I'm out of luck.
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did you read what i posted about wireless drives? might help you.
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Yeah I did. But I don't know if I'd want to carry it around with me. For that I could just carry my GS3 with me
I really was turned off by the lack of storage on the N4(I wasn't going to get one for that only reason) but I'm making due. If anything it keeps me on top of keeping my phone tidy and organized because instead of just leaving everything on the SD card I now clean it out every couple days to remove stuff taking up space. And instead of having like 50 games installed I only have the ones I'm currently playing installed
isn't there a way to unscrew the thing and replace the inner one? I think there's an inner sd card which can be replaced...I mean, my friend has htc mozart and it also doesn't have a proper slot for external card however if one unscrew the back, there's a card deep inside which can be replaced with a bigger one...Isn't it the same with Nexus 4?
For me 16 GB is plenty of space, the only thing I miss the SD slot for is easy transfer of files. I don't have to plug the phone in to transfer files.
I haven't tried the NFC / BT or WIFI (can;t use in corporate network) for file transfers.
Other than that I have been very happy with this phone, no root, stock ui, I am loving it.
PHR
I have my nexus 7 for the movies and honestly I don't understand people watching movies on a tiny screen.
I also don't understand people who "knows" more than 2500 songs.
And the ones who can play 5 different game loft games on a daily basis.
So 12 isn't enough for obsessive compulsive people who has to have everything with them.
I bet they carry a huge bag stuffed with stuff as well. In case they suddenly happen to go on a holiday or something.
Hi.
I just sold my S6 Edge 128Gb to get the S6 Edge+. I didnt use as much data as I thought I would. Im now even considering the 32GB version.
What version of the Plus do you have 32 or 64GB and especially those with 32GB has this been enough?
Cant decide.
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32gb, enough still 20gb free
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How much stuff do you carry around in your phone.?
I have a 32Gb G928F version - sim free and its fine, I wasn't prepared to spend an extra £70 on top of the £599 I paid for my S6 Edge + just for an extra 32Gb.
So i got a 64Gb sandisk, USB 3, OTG micro flash drive for £25
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Ult...-11&keywords=sandisk+64gb+usb+3.0+flash+drive
So bottom line is how much music or films do you want to carry on your phone? if like me you store your stuff on the cloud or USB drive 32Gb is enough.
Got 64gb. Don't want to think if i will have enough space in future...
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Buy 64
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Depends on what you do with the phone. A lot of pictures? Music? Video's? I have enough with 32GB
And there's always the cloud
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I have a 32Gb G928F version - sim free and its fine, I wasn't prepared to spend an extra £70 on top of the £599 I paid for my S6 Edge + just for an extra 32Gb.
So i got a 64Gb sandisk, USB 3, OTG micro flash drive for £25
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Ult...-11&keywords=sandisk+64gb+usb+3.0+flash+drive
So bottom line is how much music or films do you want to carry on your phone? if like me you store your stuff on the cloud or USB drive 32Gb is enough.
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all my pictures and videos go to onedrive and google pics so 32 gigs has been more than fine for me, i got my s6 edge plus almost 2 months ago and have over 20 gigs free space..
A Device which has unexpendable storage always sucks. You -32Gb lover guys- know that the one recovery backup is over 5 Gb even without much data on this phone? I mean there are good roms for s6 edge+ now and some guys -like us- are always switching their roms weekly even daily. Its not enough storage to get two or three backups on internal. There will be dozens of rom, can't even imagine that how much we will suffer because of the poor storage.
Not going to root
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A Device which has unexpendable storage always sucks. You -32Gb lover guys- know that the one recovery backup is over 5 Gb even without much data on this phone? I mean there are good roms for s6 edge+ now and some guys -like us- are always switching their roms weekly even daily. Its not enough storage to get two or three backups on internal. There will be dozens of rom, can't even imagine that how much we will suffer because of the poor storage.
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that would all be a big a big problem if i planned on rooting this phone ,
witch i don't so it's not a problem at least for me, plus the 6.0 marshmallow update is on the way so no need for a custom lollipop rom
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that would all be a big a big problem if i planned on rooting this phone ,
witch i don't so it's not a problem at least for me, plus the 6.0 marshmallow update is on the way so no need for a custom lollipop rom
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Yup, the rooting is nothing about the low storage trouble. You do root or not . It doesn't increase or decrease the device's storage. You have free internet to upload your stuffs to cloud perhaps we don't. So our stuffs always stay on internal storage which is not enough to hard users. If the guy love modifying and tweakking there will be a sick-trouble 32Gb Im sure.
I have an ipod which is the only device which will connect to the system in my car and keep my music separate so yeah it's enough for me. If I didn't use the ipod no it wouldn't be.
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With 15-20 4K videos @ 3-5 minutes long, 150+ photos, current ROMs, Gapps, previous 2 versions of ROMs and gapps, misc pdfs for work, installed apps, and random other documents and such, a few backups, I've never pulled over 20gb on a phone.
That's all relating to AOSP. Obviously TouchWiz is more filled, but it can be slimmed down a bit. Regardless.... USB-OTG exists for a reason as does the cloud. I don't hold music on my phone. It's why I have Spotify and Pandora. Realistically, there's no need for anything above 32gb. If you're concerned about backuos, move them elsewhere, upload them, or utilize USB-OTG.
It's not rocket science... not to mention cost to data ratio, you're better off spending less for a USB drive over the 32gb extra for another $100....
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With 15-20 4K videos @ 3-5 minutes long, 150+ photos, current ROMs, Gapps, previous 2 versions of ROMs and gapps, misc pdfs for work, installed apps, and random other documents and such, a few backups, I've never pulled over 20gb on a phone.
That's all relating to AOSP. Obviously TouchWiz is more filled, but it can be slimmed down a bit. Regardless.... USB-OTG exists for a reason as does the cloud. I don't hold music on my phone. It's why I have Spotify and Pandora. Realistically, there's no need for anything above 32gb. If you're concerned about backuos, move them elsewhere, upload them, or utilize USB-OTG.
It's not rocket science... not to mention cost to data ratio, you're better off spending less for a USB drive over the 32gb extra for another $100....
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Hey. As I said before if a person is using the device heavily, its not enough. Im archiving my documents since 12 years. I don't use laptop or kind of device it causes keeping my everything in my pockets and there are lots of people as me. Over three thousand musics, dozens of movies, videos, apps, documents etc. Imagine..Yeah there is an otg tech on present days but there are some devices which have 256Gb internal storage aaaand 'micro sd card slot'. Woah.. So its not a rocket science as we saw. Build a device which has more storage capacity is not so hard at least a bloody sd slot. Everyone doesn't use devices as basicly as you are. Otg is not the healty solution while people are eating a tortilla on the moon.
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Hey. As I said before if a person is using the device heavily, its not enough. Im archiving my documents since 12 years. I don't use laptop or kind of device it causes keeping my everything in my pockets and there are lots of people as me. Over three thousand musics, dozens of movies, videos, apps, documents etc. Imagine..Yeah there is an otg tech on present days but there are some devices which have 256Gb internal storage aaaand 'micro sd card slot'. Woah.. So its not a rocket science as we saw. Build a device which has more storage capacity is not so hard at least a bloody sd slot. Everyone doesn't use devices as basicly as you are. Otg is not the healty solution while people are eating a tortilla on the moon.
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To assume I don't use my devices heavily is an understatement. I can't remember the last time I've seen my data usage sub 40gb. To keep movies on your phone is ridiculous. You watch then once or twice. No need to keep them. Not to mention alternatives like netflix and popcorn time... perhaps cell coverage and data plans differ out there, but I have no need to keep movies or music on my phone when it's all able to be streamed. can't f you choose to keep 12 years of documents and whatever else on your phone without a backup source like a pic or external hard drive, I just hope you never lose your phone or get it stolen.. or crush it... or anything to damage the internal memory. It's definitely not the smartest choice.
Nor do I have the desire to spend an extra 100+ on extra internal storage for a device I'll have no more than 6 months. That's just wasted money. The best options are cloud storage and USB-OTG. Welcome to present and future technology. And if you want to rely on a device for music storage,at least get yourself an iPod or something with a remotely decent audio Chipset
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To assume I don't use my devices heavily is an understatement. I can't remember the last time I've seen my data usage sub 40gb. To keep movies on your phone is ridiculous. You watch then once or twice. No need to keep them. Not to mention alternatives like netflix and popcorn time... perhaps cell coverage and data plans differ out there, but I have no need to keep movies or music on my phone when it's all able to be streamed. can't f you choose to keep 12 years of documents and whatever else on your phone without a backup source like a pic or external hard drive, I just hope you never lose your phone or get it stolen.. or crush it... or anything to damage the internal memory. It's definitely not the smartest choice.
Nor do I have the desire to spend an extra 100+ on extra internal storage for a device I'll have no more than 6 months. That's just wasted money. The best options are cloud storage and USB-OTG. Welcome to present and future technology. And if you want to rely on a device for music storage,at least get yourself an iPod or something with a remotely decent audio Chipset
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Hey. I don't keep the movies and never watch twice, sometimes downloading generally transfering from other guy's devices with superbeam. I know the cloud tech and I have 2TB otg. I don't think that the ipod's sound quality is better than my devices' and no need to fourth device. Always search for new tweaks and mods to get higher and best sound quality due to that Im using android. Spotify, deezer and kind of apps are just useful to find new musics for me but I use qualified tunable music players. Whatever let the users decide for which storage capacity is useful for them. Thanks.
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A Device which has unexpendable storage always sucks. You -32Gb lover guys- know that the one recovery backup is over 5 Gb even without much data on this phone? I mean there are good roms for s6 edge+ now and some guys -like us- are always switching their roms weekly even daily. Its not enough storage to get two or three backups on internal. There will be dozens of rom, can't even imagine that how much we will suffer because of the poor storage.
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I've got a 1T flash drive I keep 3 back ups plus all my extra zips for mods,themes, kernels,Rom zips and whatnot. I keep one back up on my device and I've got 18g left on my 32g G928C.
32g is fine if you know how to manage the storage.
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I used to have my songs with me all the time when I had an iPhone. Just an old habit of an Apple ecosystem (iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc.). My song library was 30 to 40GB and I had it synced to all devices, plus some random movies or series to watch while traveling.
I hate cloud services, simply because I live in a country with poor connectivity... but I have to say that after sugarsync, spotify and using more podcasts, my ege+ with 32GB still have 14Gb free.
s6freak said:
I've got a 1T flash drive I keep 3 back ups plus all my extra zips for mods,themes, kernels,Rom zips and whatnot. I keep one back up on my device and I've got 18g left on my 32g G928C.
32g is fine if you know how to manage the storage.
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just lol sir. One rom 1.2 gb, my one backup is over 7gb. I have 5 games over 4gb, 2gb music and 5.7 gb apps. Managing the storage is not changing the one bad truth. Whatever I do my job with my other devices but love edge's gorgeus design mostly. Just warn the guys who thinks to buy 32gb model.
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just lol sir. One rom 1.2 gb, my one backup is over 7gb. I have 5 games over 4gb, 2gb music and 5.7 gb apps. Managing the storage is not changing the one bad truth. Whatever I do my job with my other devices but love edge's gorgeus design mostly. Just warn the guys who thinks to buy 32gb model.
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LOL no man I've got a one Terabyte flash drive for my device I'm not worried to much. But usually 32g is fine
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After cancelling the 64gb graphite 6P, and going for the smaller 5X, and then cancelling the 5X and reordering the only available 32gb graphite 6P after realizing I'd much happier with the bigger device, sleeker looking, better specs after all. I'm wondering now if 32gb will be enough. I plan on shooting alot of photos and videos with this rumored great camera. What are your thoughts about the size?
Are you concerned about space with the 32gb 6P?
I'm not because I ordered a kingston c to A USB on the go. Despite that, 32 is perfect for me. But since you shoot lots of photos and videos 64 might be better but I upload everything to the cloud anyways.
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There will be something like 26gb usable on that 32gb.
Ive probably got that in games and office apps.
If youre gonna be shooting 4k videos and storing music etc youll soon use it up.
Ive gone for the 128gb so I dont have to worry about it.
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no problems here, i have a 32gb nexus 6 and a 32 gb chromebook pixel 2015 and 32gb is more than needed with devices always connected online
32gb should be fine especially if you use OTG thumbdrive and the cloud...
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32gb should be fine especially if you use OTG thumbdrive and the cloud...
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markwebb said:
I'm not because I ordered a kingston c to A USB on the go. Despite that, 32 is perfect for me. But since you shoot lots of photos and videos 64 might be better but I upload everything to the cloud anyways.
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How do those work, you have to leave it connected to device as you fill it up? Or just to quickly transfer data to it and disconnect?
Use as needed like any other thumb drive.
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Using a 64GB device now and I don't think I'd ever go for less for the foreseeable future. As much as you can get around things by using cloud services, you will always have that hard limit of ~26GB, which isn't that much... Especially for a large device that would be great for watching media.
I used to think i needed 64+ personally until I took a look at what I actually had on my device. Once I removed all of the crap I had on there (Games/movies/apps I no longer used/watched) I found I didn't need all the extra space. I also store all of my music, photos and high res vids in the cloud all the time so I can keep my device clean. When I travel I load up my device with all the media i'll want for the trip (just in case there is no in flight wifi) until i get where i'm going and I've still never run out of memory on my 32GB nexus 6
So pretty much this is a question no one can answer for you. It varies from person to person and you're just going to have to figure out how much memory you will require based on how you use your own personal device and the cloud services available to you.
I wouldn't go any less than 64. I have 70+gb of photos and videos and I like to have them to hand without relying on the cloud. I also have 40+gb of music. For me 128 isn't really enough either.
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Using a 64GB device now and I don't think I'd ever go for less for the foreseeable future. As much as you can get around things by using cloud services, you will always have that hard limit of ~26GB, which isn't that much... Especially for a large device that would be great for watching media.
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I hear ya, but this question was more aimed at the people that actually ordered the 32gb version
Presumably most people who would have been concerned about lack of space on a 32GB 6P would have ordered a larger one.
Yeah.. I'm doing just fine with 32GB on my N5, I only ordered the 128GB 6p because why not.
If they had the larger I probably would as well. I better get that otg drive.
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I ordered Nexus 6p 32 GB and wasn't concerned until I saw this post
Do we know the size of 1 min 4k video recorded on Nexus 6p?
I found this link for S5 -
forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s5/365425-how-big-would-1-minute-4k-video.html
And the other link on one plus forum -
forums.oneplus.net/threads/how-much-storage-is-required-for-1-minutes-of-4k-video-shooting-1-1.8220/
(don't have enough posts to share external links so had to make them simple text)
Both these links confirm the size to be 3.5 GB for 10 min of 4K video, which actually concerns me.
I should have gone with the 64/128 GB. But now if I cancel my Nexus 6p 32 GB order I don't know how long I'll have to wait for 64/128 GB as they both are out of stock.
:crying::crying::crying:
Just buy a sim card adapter and if you need more space plug it in and put stuff you don't always use on the external sim card easy..
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I have everything backed up online anyway, and I use Google Play All Access for my music, so I don't think 32Gb will be a problem at all. My current 32Gb Nexus 5 has so little stored on the actual phone, I've still got 12Gb free.
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Just buy a sim card adapter and if you need more space plug it in and put stuff you don't always use on the external sim card easy..
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Do you mean SD Cards?
My 32GB N5 was full of TWRP backups more than anything else, so not concerned, 32GB should be plenty. I used to carry all my music with me, but now I uploaded it to Google and just stream it from there. Photos go on the NAS and Google Photos right away too, the phone is just a temporary cache.
32Gb is fine for me. I have a synology solution with plex.
So music/tv/films are all streamed OTG, yes it will suck as i need constant connection but I have unlimited data anyways so that doesn't concern me.
If i really wanted to take some films i'll just use a USB OTG storage solution. But that is super rare for me. I don't play games on my phone (tablet & PC for that)
Asking here because I'm looking into getting the XL in the next couple days and am torn between the two storage sizes. On my 6P I opted for 64gb and it's enough for my use but with the pixel there is no 64gb option.
My use is offline Spotify music, taking pictures (auto upload to Google), basic apps (root stuff, banking, etc) no games, watching YouTube, twitch, etc. I don't save movies on my phone to watch as I have a tablet for that. So I'm thinking I could get by with 32gb as 128gb would be way too much.
The other thing to consider is I plan on getting the pixel XL 2 come holiday season and am getting the pixel XL because my 6P is being refunded for battery issues and price wise would be a 1 for 1 swap. However I'm curious for those that opted for 32gb, has it held up well for you after almost a year of owning the device or is it truly not enough?
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I'm perfectly happy with my 32Gb, and currently have 20Gb free. I have 130 apps installed, but no games, and I make sure to delete photos regularly. No movies and limited music (just a couple of Google Music playlists) saved, and otherwise the only thing that takes up significant space is podcasts. Unless you save a lot of media (and it doesn't sound like you plan to) to the device, it sounds to me like you should be okay with 32Gb.
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I'm perfectly happy with my 32Gb, and currently have 20Gb free. I have 130 apps installed, but no games, and I make sure to delete photos regularly. No movies and limited music (just a couple of Google Music playlists) saved, and otherwise the only thing that takes up significant space is podcasts. Unless you save a lot of media (and it doesn't sound like you plan to) to the device, it sounds to me like you should be okay with 32Gb.
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Thanks for the response, it's helpful that we appear to have very similar usage.
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i was a OP3 user before so i used to have 64GB mem..I had the same doubt about moving to pixel 32gb but i would like to say im not..Im happy with 32GB memory...There is plenty of space unless you are a TV series guy...
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i was a OP3 user before so i used to have 64GB mem..I had the same doubt about moving to pixel 32gb but i would like to say im not..Im happy with 32GB memory...There is plenty of space unless you are a TV series guy...
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I am big into TV series but between my tablet, MacBook air and Nintendo switch, I'm plenty covered for traveling lol
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I was worried to only get the 32gb model, but since you get free unlimited storage for pictures it makes it super easy to get by. I really only listen to Google play music and YouTube red. I also have a few games, but i delete them as i get bored or beat them. I also download movies, but i usually transfer them to my surface pro when i want to watch them. I have ran out of storage before, but i was downloading custom ROMs and factory images which i was going to transfer anyway. I think for your use that 32gb would be plenty.
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Asking here because I'm looking into getting the XL in the next couple days and am torn between the two storage sizes. On my 6P I opted for 64gb and it's enough for my use but with the pixel there is no 64gb option.
My use is offline Spotify music, taking pictures (auto upload to Google), basic apps (root stuff, banking, etc) no games, watching YouTube, twitch, etc. I don't save movies on my phone to watch as I have a tablet for that. So I'm thinking I could get by with 32gb as 128gb would be way too much.
The other thing to consider is I plan on getting the pixel XL 2 come holiday season and am getting the pixel XL because my 6P is being refunded for battery issues and price wise would be a 1 for 1 swap. However I'm curious for those that opted for 32gb, has it held up well for you after almost a year of owning the device or is it truly not enough?
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Neverendingxsin
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So, if you download say 3000 Spotify songs to use offline and you use normal not high quality download, that's less than 10 GB it turns out. All my other stuff is only about 12 GB. There's 29 GB that you can use out of the 32 so that still leaves me 7 just sitting there. Everything is so cloud oriented (google photos-don't need to keep photos on the device) that I really don't need that much space. Even the music doesn't have to be downloaded cause I have unlimited data on Verizon. So, 32 is fine for me. I can see where it wouldn't be enough for some people though.
I got the 128 but don't even have 20GB on my device. Should have saved the cabbage and got the 32Gb
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32gb ain't what it used to be. Even using the cloud I'm still using 56gb on my 128gb model.
Yes, I regret it.
32GB just isn't as big as it used to be.
Not with pics and videos that are twice the size they used to be.
Same for some apps.
32GB used to be premium and now it's like how 16GB used to feel.
Thanks for the input guys, I decided to go with 32gb because 128 I know is way too much and I'm pretty sure I can make 32gb work with my uses.
Also since I'm considering selling it once the pixel 2 goes live, I don't want to have too much money committed to it. Getting the 32gb XL only cost me $20 out of pocket due to the refund on my 6P.
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I'm using 41G of my 128G. A lot of that is Spotify and personal offline music because I don't stream anything. I'm on Project Fi which gives you no data. I could get by with less stored music but when you have a phone where you use most of the storage it can become a serious pain. Sometimes apps won't update unless you delete stuff or OTA updates will fail. Having gone through that before I would much rather have too much storage than not enough.
Nowadays, a 16G is not enough, but I find 32G is quite sufficient. Definitely pictures and files should be regularly moved after uploading to cloud.
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I'm using 41G of my 128G. A lot of that is Spotify and personal offline music because I don't stream anything. I'm on Project Fi which gives you no data. I could get by with less stored music but when you have a phone where you use most of the storage it can become a serious pain. Sometimes apps won't update unless you delete stuff or OTA updates will fail. Having gone through that before I would much rather have too much storage than not enough.
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I can feel you on that, if they had 64gb that would be perfect but $100 for 128gb is a stretch sadly. I'm pretty sure I can make it work as I only have a few hundred songs downloaded and probably wouldn't even make it to the 1000 mark for a while. I'm banking on my use not changing lol.
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I've had my 32 GB XL since the day it was released. I've had no issues with space. Every so often I will do a complete wipe as there are some orphan files that don't seem to go away without a full wipe. I change ROM's often so a full wipe every once in a while helps with space.
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I've had my 32 GB XL since the day it was released. I've had no issues with space. Every so often I will do a complete wipe as there are some orphan files that don't seem to go away without a full wipe. I change ROM's often so a full wipe every once in a while helps with space.
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Is using ROMs worthwhile on the pixel? On my 6p I've been stock rooted just for adaway and a few other root apps and that's worked really well for me, I was huge into rooting on my Nexus 5.
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Is using ROMs worthwhile on the pixel? On my 6p I've been stock rooted just for adaway and a few other root apps and that's worked really well for me, I was huge into rooting on my Nexus 5.
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It depends. I'm a crack flasher so I'm always trying different ROMS. I have found the stock DP4 release of O has curbed my crack flashing. It is very stable, fast and sips battery. Now that we have root for DP4, I'm happy for now
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It depends. I'm a crack flasher so I'm always trying different ROMS. I have found the stock DP4 release of O has curbed my crack flashing. It is very stable, fast and sips battery. Now that we have root for DP4, I'm happy for now
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I used to be a crack flasher from my OG Droid all the way to the early days with the 6P, then life got busy and I settled with stock rooted and maybe a nice kernel lol
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Except for lossless, no.
So, I'm on the 128GB unit, and I'm really happy that I did.
My usage case is fairly straight forward, email, taking pictures, reading books. Not a lot else.
I am using 44.7 GB right now, and the break down is:
8.93 GB in apps. (Huh, this is a bit high.)
24.84 GB in images. (Yes, I upload, but I like to be able to go through them even when I don't have a great network connection.)
6.79 GB in System (Keep this in mind when you run the numbers.)
1.55 GB in Other (probably books)
2.59 GB in Cached data.
I could get away with a 32GB unit if I wanted to delete pictures off the phone on a regular basis. But I find this really really nice.