iPhone Capacity Questions

[sadievan]

Curious. What capacity do you all have on your iphones (16GB, 32GB, etc) Would you go different next time.

Carol

[ilovejedd]

I've gotten a 32GB iPhone ever since they became available (starting with the 3GS, now on a 4S). For a phone, 32GB is enough capacity for me. I use just around 20-24GB on my iPhone. If price of the subsidized 64GB model drops to $299 or lower, then yeah I might upgrade. Otherwise, I'm fine with 32GB.

If I didn't use it for music, 16GB would be more than enough.

[David Munch]

64 GB, had a 32GB model before. I *could* go with 32GB, but never below that. I have far too much music/books that I'd like to carry around with me all the time.

[tecweston]

I don't use mine for music (I have an 8GB iPod nano for that), nor for video (have an iPad for that), but I do use my 8GB iPod touch for podcasts because I can set it to download them automatically, and I find that it's usually filled most of the way up. Next time I might move up to 16GB to give a little more breathing room, but I can't imagine ever needing 32GB unless I was using it as a music or video player.

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by tecweston

I don't use mine for music (I have an 8GB iPod nano for that), nor for video (have an iPad for that), but I do use my 8GB iPod touch for podcasts because I can set it to download them automatically, and I find that it's usually filled most of the way up. Next time I might move up to 16GB to give a little more breathing room, but I can't imagine ever needing 32GB unless I was using it as a music or video player.

There's no 16GB iPod Touch (at least currently). Yeah, if not for music, I wouldn't need 32GB. My ebooks barely use 1GB and I've got a few thousand. Don't really feel the need to have a copy of the entire Project Gutenberg library on my phone.

[tubemonkey]

I have a 6.4GB iPod touch 4. Since it lacks a card slot, I only use it for streaming net radio (BBC, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, etc) and listening to audiobooks and podcasts (public library, BBC, Audible, iTunes U, etc).

Because of its lack of storage space, I don't store music or videos on it; and only keep a few audiobooks and other audio content on it at any given time.

Overall, it's a great audio device and lives in a speaker dock at home. Outside the home, I use the far more capable Galaxy Player 4.

[tecweston]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Overall, it's a great audio device and lives in a speaker dock at home.

Yeah, that's kinda how my 3rd gen iPod nano is. It lives in a speaker dock most of the time (except when I take it on bike rides), and when I'm out of the house I use my iPod touch for music (I have a playlist with just the last few albums I've purchased, it only takes up 1GB).

I wonder if there's anyone that uses an iPad as their primary music player, and how cumbersome that is to use. I have zero songs on my iPad right now because I can't think of a purpose for having them on there yet.

[David Munch]

Originally Posted by tecweston

I wonder if there's anyone that uses an iPad as their primary music player, and how cumbersome that is to use. I have zero songs on my iPad right now because I can't think of a purpose for having them on there yet.

I use the built in audio player when I'm reading on it, or when I'm cooking in the kitchen and looking at recipes - Works fine for that.

[HarryT]

My 32GB iPhone 4 is my primary "music player" - although most of my "music" is actually audio books and BBC radio programmes. The 32GB model was the largest available at the time I bought it. I may buy an iPhone 5 (rumoured release date is October) and if there's a larger capacity model available then, I'd certainly get that.

My iPhone is basically a music player and a mobile internet device. I probably make about 1 phone call a month on it .

[FlorenceArt]

I bought a 16 Gb iPhone a few months ago. I still have some available space on it, but I expect that I will reach a point, as I did on my iPad, where I will have to make choices.

For now it contains all my music collection (which is very small), a couple of podcasts, all my videos (mine as made by me, that's about 20 short films). Plus a growing number of books, right now about 20 I think.

Also a few map/gps apps that I think may take up a lot of space. It's hard to know exactly how much space one app takes up. I suspect that the info given in iTunes shows only the space taken up by the app itself, but not necessarily the documents created or downloaded with the app.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

I suspect that the info given in iTunes shows only the space taken up by the app itself, but not necessarily the documents created or downloaded with the app.

No, the space shown for an App includes its documents. The exception to this is iBooks, where "Books" are shown separately.

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by HarryT

No, the space shown for an App includes its documents. The exception to this is iBooks, where "Books" are shown separately.

Ah, thank you. Most of the space on my iPad is taken up by apps, and I had the impression that if I added up the individual app sizes, it wouldn't come up to the total. But I never tested that theory, I'm much too lazy

[rcuadro]

I always purchase the largest they sell at the time. Sure, 16 gig may actually be enough but I am the type of guy that will get the top of the line one for the heck of it

[sadievan]

Thanks for all the replies. I think if I get the 4S I will get a 32GB. I will probably wait til the WWDC and see if one is announced or at least the beginning of June so I will be within the 30 day return window. Hopefully if I decide on the 4S they will be reduced and they will still allow you to buy any of the capacities, not just the lowest one.

Carol

[kyteflyer]

Originally Posted by sadievan

Thanks for all the replies. I think if I get the 4S I will get a 32GB. I will probably wait til the WWDC and see if one is announced or at least the beginning of June so I will be within the 30 day return window. Hopefully if I decide on the 4S they will be reduced and they will still allow you to buy any of the capacities, not just the lowest one.

Carol

I think it unlikely they will offer more than 8G (unless they take 16G from the regular lineup and add 128G at the other end, and then they might offer a 16G). They wont want sales of the older model eating into possible sales of the newer model.