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Originally Posted by jj2me

I have no plans for this phone. Just trying to contribute here on a small scale compared to what you do. And I already have too many decommissioned old cell phones (all but one having only 512 MB of RAM, ack!).

Thanks for the input. These two deals are matching the best deals that were available on BF.

But my main problem with jumping on any of these holiday deals is that I'm reading The Snowball, and Warren Buffett seemed to never spend because he thought more of putting all available money to use compounding itself. I'll get over that soon, but for now I'm impressionable.

...LOL

Originally Posted by jj2me

I have a secondary cell phone (Jellybean/4.1.2) in use with 4 GB storage and it's reporting, with a measly 75 apps installed:
- Total space: 1.95GB
- Apps (app data & media content): 1.23GB
- Misc.: 298MB
- Available: 441MB

So for some use cases, it might be possible to live with limited on-board storage if you're reasonably conscientious:
- limit your apps (if needed, you can always swap out [uninstall/re-install] seldom-used apps in a minute or so)
- clear cache fairly regularly (using an app cache cleaner app, or in Kit Kat just long-pressing on ""Cached data" which is in Settings -> Storage)

I wouldn't automatically rule out most phones (a few I would). We all have different needs and uses and something that wouldn't work for one person could easily work for another. I'm just expressing concern when too many red flags (512MB RAM, 4GB ROM, older CPU, older OS) pop up on one phone.