Does iOS 5 really take up 8GB? Sorry, I'm new to iPhones. Looking at the 16 and 32GB models. Really thought 16 would be enough, but not if the OS is 8GB.
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16GB iPhone; 13.60GB Capacity
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Does iOS 5 really take up 8GB? Sorry, I'm new to iPhones. Looking at the 16 and 32GB models. Really thought 16 would be enough, but not if the OS is 8GB.
AFAIK the difference between the stated capacity and the actual free space is two things combined (and yes, this has been discussed a million times): 1) Space for iOS, which is fixed at least across different capacities of the same device and (2) that capacities are quoted in base 10 not base 2 -- that is, a 32GB flash drive has 32 billion bytes -- not 32 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes (e.g. 1 GB = 10 ^ 9 bytes), but free space is quoted in base 2, where 1 GB = 1024*1024*1024 bytes.
That's why the "loss" of free space on a 32GB device is about 3.7GB (mine has a 28.3 GB capacity), vs only 2.4 on the 16Gb device quoted <-- you lose 74MB per GB because of the math / counting issue, so this comes out to 1.2 GB on the 16GB device and 2.4 on the 32GB device....
Oh OK, I was just reacting to the other person who said their 64GB model came with like 7GB already swallowed up, and was thinking the 16GB would have the same since they all come formatted with the same OS. I didn't know there were discrepancies between models in regards to how much of the memory comes formatted, and not really sure why that would be...