Debating whether I really need the 64GB...

[jcorbin]

Me personally I started with 3G at 16GB, then decided to go 32GB with the 3GS, and even with the better camera and video on the 4 stuck with 32GB as I do not like to keep all that junk on my phone all the time, i also rotate all my music every 2-3 weeks, also my total iTunes library it nearly 2-3TB between Music, TV Shows, Movies etc, so no way I could keep it all.

I just got the 4S and decided to stick with the 32GB and even more so with the better camera and large photos and videos, I am still fine.

The way I look at the 64GB is good if you will hardly be near your computer to sync it, otherwise, if I am near my pc all the time I prefer smaller, and sync more often, but if you do not have that luxury, then 64GB might play out better.

i dont have a computer with itunes on it. and i still got a 32gb. with icloud why would you need all that local storage space

 

[Young Spade]

i dont have a computer with itunes on it. and i still got a 32gb. with icloud why would you need all that local storage space

I have had this phone for 5 days now and I have 10.8gbs of applications on it. That's why I went with the 32.

About 90% of that is from games; then I have 14 or so gigs of music.

 

[ericrwalker]

Actually I think you're missing the point. The internet whether you use wifi or cellular data uses more battery. Not everywhere people go they have an outlet or want to carry a charger with them.

I'd rather not rely on the cloud, and for an extra $100 I don't have to.

Youre missing the point; you can have access to all of your music, anywhere. Anybody with 320kbs, AIFF, or WAV rips knows how troublesome that can be.

But for the data, that's what wifi is for. As for power? That's what plugs are for. Seeing that this is mainly to be used as a spur of the moment thing or when you're out for a long time, like vacation or something, it makes sense to me.

 

[steve-p]

iCloud for music is not really a solution for international travel due to high data roaming charges, and anyway I don't want to micromanage my music on the phone on a regular basis. I want all of it, so I can choose what to listen to whenever I want, and use Genius across my whole collection.

 

[Young Spade]

Actually I think you're missing the point. The internet whether you use wife or cellular data uses more battery. No everywhere people go they have an outlet or want to carry a charger with them.

I'd rather not rely on the cloud, and for an extra $100 I don't have to.

Obviously; in that case don't use it. The point I was making was that it's irrelevant to bash it, simply because t does more good as no bad, if you don't opt to use it.

Personally I went for the 32gb so I wouldnt have to use it, and I won't.

 

[Qzuelic]

I had the same dilemma regarding 16GB vs. 32GB. I have a pretty large music library (over 40GB) and that took up around 15GB in my 32GB 3GS. Ultimately, I could not justify spending another $100 for double the space, so this is what I'm doing:

1. I am syncing only the absolute essential songs to my iPhone. These are the ones I know I'll listen to a lot and wouldn't be able to do without. When I went through my library and did this, I ended up with around 693 songs. I'll revise this as I find new songs I want on there.

2. I have all my music uploaded to Google Music Beta. For those who don't know, it's a free cloud music streaming service that is by invite only (I happen to have 5 free invites, so if anyone wants those, PM me). With the gMusic app from the App store, I have access to my whole 40+ GB library from my iPhone as long as I'm on 3G or WiFi. Unfortunately, Google does not have an official app for the iPhone for Google Music, but gMusic seems to work decently enough.

3. I am using Picasa to upload photos regularly from my iPhone. Again, there's no official app from Google for this, but the Picasa Web Albums app seems to work decently enough. The plan is to delete photos after uploading so as to conserve space whenever I get to the point where I'm out of space. I'm big into photography, and I take a lot of photos with my iPhone so it's essential that I have space to take photos and a place to upload them to (I purchased additional storage from Picasa for $5 per year to accommodate my large photo library). The nice thing about Picasa is that I have access to all my photos from my iPhone, including those that were uploaded and taken with other cameras.

Now, by doing these three things, with 125 applications installed (quite a few of them being games), 693 songs (in 192 quality or higher), and 124 photos, I have 3.4GB of available space. That's more than enough to take a lot of photos, and should be sufficient for videos (unless they're long, in which case I can just upload those photos and clear out space). So far, this is working quite well for me.

An interesting way to do things - that might work for me. Like the OP, I was looking at a 32 or 64 and trying to decide which might work best. I like some of your ideas, and the only thing I would need is room for videos (having a 1 1/2 year old, we take quite a bit). Makes me think that a 32gb would probably work well.

 

[Eleer]

Same Boat As OP

In the same boat as OP. Trying to decide if I want a 32 or a 64 gig phone. Never had an iPhone before so I don't know how much memory applications take up. As far as apps go, how much memory do the "popular" apps take? I only have about 12 gigs of music as I'm not a huge media freak. I have a feeling 32 will suffice, but on the app side of it, how much memory do you guys have taken up just from apps?

 

[Pravius]

In the same boat as OP. Trying to decide if I want a 32 or a 64 gig phone. Never had an iPhone before so I don't know how much memory applications take up. As far as apps go, how much memory do the "popular" apps take? I only have about 12 gigs of music as I'm not a huge media freak. I have a feeling 32 will suffice, but on the app side of it, how much memory do you guys have taken up just from apps?

It just really depends on what you are into. I download a bunch of apps all the time and just delete the ones I do not use. I rarely buy apps unless I NEED them. I have a 16gb 4 and I have used about 2GB in apps, and I have quite a few of them, maybe 20-30? Some games, some smaller apps, etc.

32GB seems to be the sweet spot.

 

[Young Spade]

In the same boat as OP. Trying to decide if I want a 32 or a 64 gig phone. Never had an iPhone before so I don't know how much memory applications take up. As far as apps go, how much memory do the "popular" apps take? I only have about 12 gigs of music as I'm not a huge media freak. I have a feeling 32 will suffice, but on the app side of it, how much memory do you guys have taken up just from apps?

Get a 32. I have ~70 games and about 15 or so other applications along with 13 gigs of music on mine and I still have 2 gigs left.

Unless you're going to do that and more, the 32 is Plenty. And the games like rage, dead space, infinity blade, etc are around a gig each, so you could easily take about 6 of my games out and get 4.5 gigs back easy.

 

[Colgin]

@Infiniteloopy if you go from Lossless to 320kbs the difference can be small unless you have a really keen ear and a sensitive pair of headphones.

Now if you go to 128kbs the difference is very noticable. Basically 128kbs sounds like **** and you won't be happy if you are a heavy listener. My advice would be to get a larger storage option if you want to maintain the quality of the music!!!

I use the downsampling to 128 AAC for my Iphone because it is convenient and like the OP I don't want to manage 2 libraries (all my music is ripped to Apple Lossless for home streaming). I really wish that their was the option for something like 192 which I would be fine with. That being said, for my gym/walking around the city non-critical listening with nonisolating stock Apple earbuds, 128 AAC is just fine. In many cases, it sounds quite close to higher bitrates under these circumstances particularly if you are not actually listening for artifacts. I do have some music that just sounds bad (or I am so aware of particular artifacts that I cannot avoid hearing them), so for those albums I transfer to the phone at a higher bitrate.

I still went for the 64G model because even at the lower bitrate I can only get a fraction of my music on my old 32G Iphone 3GS. I have an old Ipod classic at 80G (which I never use anymore) that is filled at 128AAC. With the larger capacity I hope to at least be able to load all my essential music at one time and not have to swap in and out so much. I also anticipate the heavier toll that HD video and higher def pictures will take on my storage.

 

[InfiniteLoopy]

Guess who ordered a 64GB ...

 

[ericrwalker]

Guess who ordered a 64GB ...

Nice, I will be ordering as well. My wife thinks I am getting a 16GB(like she thought I got with the iPhone4, which will be hers soon), but she'll never know. She's allowing me to buy the 16GB one on Dec 1st, so I will be ordering my 64GB one on Dec 1st.

 

[fourthtunz]

Guess who ordered a 64GB ...

Yeah, you won't regret it!
I don't know what data plans others have but I have the minimum on both my
Ip3gs and my iPad 2, those plans add up!
Im always getting texts from AT&T telling me I'm almost over data but never go over and don't want to pay more!
If you went with the 32 and the cloud you be paying extra monthly data charges.
I may wait for the 5 but will get the 64 when I get a new iPhone, I like having all my junk with me, kind of a digital hoarder!
Ok watch yer step there, don't trip on my movies!

 

[sakau2007]

to the people saying "it's just 100 extra dollars" you realize that's a $200 difference for 16 GB --> 64 GB

talk about making money on disk space! you can buy good 64GB ssd's for much cheaper than $200, never mind the difference between 64 and 16... and nevermind that you're buying at markup to begin with anyway!

to the op... if you are happy with how your music sounds (and that's all that matters) at 128, then definitely don't get the 64. in fact, consider getting just the 16. sounds like that might give you enough room.

 

[Bryan Bowler]

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I would definitely get the 64GB. Keep your music as is and keep the extra storage for video and pics. You'll be much happier with the extra room...

 

[Don Kosak]

The price difference is only $100.

Your average monthly bill is almost that much...

Most people will keep the phone for at least 2 years. (I'll keep mine for at least 4, as I'll hand down the 4S to a Family Member and buy a iPhone 5SX+ in 2 years...)

At 2 years, you're paying about $4 a month extra and you gain the ability to shoot hours of extra 1080p video, have much better music, keep several TV shows or a Movie to entertain yourself or your friends/kids/niece/aunt etc...

If you're already spending $65-105 a month for just the phone plan, you might as well pitch in $2-4 bucks and not worry about capacity.

 

[InfiniteLoopy]

to the people saying "it's just 100 extra dollars" you realize that's a $200 difference for 16 GB --> 64 GB

talk about making money on disk space! you can buy good 64GB ssd's for much cheaper than $200, never mind the difference between 64 and 16... and nevermind that you're buying at markup to begin with anyway!

to the op... if you are happy with how your music sounds (and that's all that matters) at 128, then definitely don't get the 64. in fact, consider getting just the 16. sounds like that might give you enough room.

I got it for two reasons:
- If I travel somewhere without my Mac, I can shoot a lot of film and photos without starting to do mental math to see what I should delete next.
- When I'm in my regular routine, I can have all my music in its best quality on my iPhone and not have to worry about it going over the limit each time I import a CD I've bought.

The price difference is only $100.

Your average monthly bill is almost that much...

Most people will keep the phone for at least 2 years. (I'll keep mine for at least 4, as I'll hand down the 4S to a Family Member and buy a iPhone 5SX+ in 2 years...)

At 2 years, you're paying about $4 a month extra and you gain the ability to shoot hours of extra 1080p video, have much better music, keep several TV shows or a Movie to entertain yourself or your friends/kids/niece/aunt etc...

If you're already spending $65-105 a month for just the phone plan, you might as well pitch in $2-4 bucks and not worry about capacity.

- This was the third reason: over two years, it's only a few $ per month more.

 

[ziggo]

In a forum where a lot of us paid a cool $600 for the first iPhone with 8GB storage, 8 apps, and no 3G data that statement seems laughable.

You double your memory for $100 going from the 16-32 so you pay $100 for 16GB. You also double it going from 32-64 so you pay $100 for 32GB on the 64. That's amazing in my opinion - I honestly expected more.

The 64 GB is almost exactly 1/2 the cost per GB of the 16GB.

16 - $12.50/GB
32 - $9.38/GB
64 - $6.25/GB

Preach Brother!

 

[steve-p]

to the people saying "it's just 100 extra dollars" you realize that's a $200 difference for 16 GB --> 64 GB

talk about making money on disk space! you can buy good 64GB ssd's for much cheaper than $200, never mind the difference between 64 and 16... and nevermind that you're buying at markup to begin with anyway!

Go ahead and buy a 64GB SSD for less than $200 and see how well it fits inside your iPhone.

 

[moargolems]

I have a 16GB and I think it's too much for me