iPhone 4S 64gb - real capacity?

[palmerc2]

It is 64,000,000,000 Bytes which translates into 59.6 GB, minus ~2 GB for OS and stuff.

Edit: Just wanted to point out that it is real 64GiB not 64GB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte)

Why do they cell it 64GB then? Why not call it 59GB? Why not put a 69GB hard drive and then properly call it 64GB?

I just purchased a 2TB western digital elements external hard drive and it has exactly 2TB (2,048GB). They stuck to their word. That's why I ask.

 

[Stealthipad]

Why do they cell it 64GB then? Why not call it 59GB? Why not put a 69GB hard drive and then properly call it 64GB?

I just purchased a 2TB western digital elements external hard drive and it has exactly 2TB (2,048GB). They stuck to their word. That's why I ask.

Because they expect people to have common sense! Most of the people, here understand, they just have nothing better to do than to argue.

I think most of the people here must have returned from the camp out at wall street

 

[blackreplica]

51 Gigs of music?


Holy…..

Hardly anything to scream about. My itunes library currently stands at 878 (full) albums, 40.1 days, 201.24GB. My poor 32GB 3GS is literally overflowing with data, maybe about 4-5gb for apps and essentials and the rest music. Needless to say I can't wait to pick up my 64GB 4S

All you need is to care about quality or have lots and lots of music. About half my collection are cd rips in apple lossless and the other half 320kbps mp3s. Trust me there are many like me around

 

[oshia86]

I have about 89GB of music. 51GB really isn't too uncommon.

Loseless formats take up lots of space. Think about it. If a common mp3 takes up 5-8mb, and you have 100 of them, then you now have 500-800mb of music. Take a lossless format and let's say that makes the song 35mb. Well, you just at least quadrupled the size of your collection. Then take into account that some people can have a loseless copy, for us audiophiles, and an mp3 copy, for the ipod/iphone. Not too crazy now, right?

 

[ilifecomputer]

Woot for high quality music files. I have a ginormous library but swap about 12gb in n out of my phone every month or so. Sometimes I listen to new albums a bunch of times the first month to decide what I think so I never need much more than that with my schedule. Bought a 32 but could easily fill a 512.

 

[ilifecomputer]

So jel of all you 64 owners tho, so awesome to have that space.

 

[terraphantm]

Why do they cell it 64GB then? Why not call it 59GB? Why not put a 69GB hard drive and then properly call it 64GB?

I just purchased a 2TB western digital elements external hard drive and it has exactly 2TB (2,048GB). They stuck to their word. That's why I ask.

Let me guess, you're using OSX? Apple changed how the OS calculates space with snow leopard. They define 1GB as 1000^3 bytes instead of 1024^3 bytes. For some reason , this doesn't seem to have carried over to iOS. Plug that western digital drive into a PC or a Mac running leopard, and it'll come up as 1.82TB or 1862GB

As for the 64GB iPhones capacity - it's due to the definition difference of the units, and the space that iOS takes. The iPhone has more stock applications than the iPods and iPads, hence there being slightly less space available compared to those devices.

 

[LastOneToKnow]

My current music collection in iTunes is 62.15gb, 9845 items in total. Many of my music files are high quality rips from the original cd's. Each music file also has the appropriate album cover embedded, a high quality scan at 600x600. That being said, I owned the iPhone 4s for a short time (back to using my iPhone 4 now) and after installing all of my essential apps, games and such I play most frequently I was still able to fit just under 51 gigs of music in the phone, basically my entire music collection aside from my christmas albums and motion picture soundtracks. Still had 1 gb of free space left which I decided to reserve for any new music or apps. Unfortunately I don't have a break down to provide as an example per the "Summary" tab in iTunes. Wish I had taken a screenshot of that prior to wiping my iPhone 4s and returning it.

 

[sentinelsx]

Audiogalaxy is great. I was afraid of using it back when i had an iPhone 4 due to data cap but i found it uses very little data to stream. And even on a bad connection the songs do not get interrupted. Maybe very rare.

Awesome app and i no longer had to worry about putting music on the phone or syncing a certain part of my library.

Only downside obviously is once you are not connected online, you don't have anything to listen. So i kept a few songs in the phone and majority of the library got streamed from my laptop.

 

[LastOneToKnow]

Audiogalaxy is great. I was afraid of using it back when i had an iPhone 4 due to data cap but i found it uses very little data to stream. And even on a bad connection the songs do not get interrupted. Maybe very rare.

Awesome app and i no longer had to worry about putting music on the phone or syncing a certain part of my library.

Only downside obviously is once you are not connected online, you don't have anything to listen. So i kept a few songs in the phone and majority of the library got streamed from my laptop.

I have a HTPC at home running 24/7 which would be ideal for streaming my music collection across the net. I'll have to give it a go when I get home this evening. Would be awesome to have access to the other 38 gigs of music I can't currently fit on my iPhone 4. Thanks for sharing!

 

[ZBoater]

Because they expect people to have common sense! Most of the people, here understand, they just have nothing better to do than to argue.

I think most of the people here must have returned from the camp out at wall street

Really? Most people understand that a gb is not really a gb when advertised by Apple (and others)?

I don't think that is Apple's target market.

I don't see why they don't just give us 64gb if they advertise 64gb, It's not like these things are cheap. The splitting hairs between 1000 and 1024 bytes in a kilobytes is something geeks and nerds like us understand. Grandma ain't gonna understand it or like it. She's getting robbed!

 

[sentinelsx]

I have a HTPC at home running 24/7 which would be ideal for streaming my music collection across the net. I'll have to give it a go when I get home this evening. Would be awesome to have access to the other 38 gigs of music I can't currently fit on my iPhone 4. Thanks for sharing!

No problem. It really is a must have app. Plus you can set it up on multiple computers and stream from them all.

Also if you play movies/shows on the phone sometimes, air video is a nice video streamer like audiogalaxy is for music. Converts video on your machine and streams to the iOS device.

For android owners, the app is now available on android market too. Airvideo is not though but i think vlc covers that.

 

[M87]

They stole me gigabytes!

 

[dranakin]

On the same topic, what's the real capacity for the 32GB (after OS, etc.)? I mistakenly updated my jailbroken phone to iOS 5 without first going into recovery mode, so I don't know if I lost a partition. Google says 32 000 000 000 bytes = 29.8023224 gigabytes and mine is showing 28.5GB. Is that about right?

 

[ericrwalker]

The "real" capacity is 64gb, then you lose some from formatting and some from the operating system. How is that false advertising?

 

[dranakin]

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On the same topic, what's the real capacity for the 32GB (after OS, etc.)? I mistakenly updated my jailbroken phone to iOS 5 without first going into recovery mode, so I don't know if I lost a partition. Google says 32 000 000 000 bytes = 29.8023224 gigabytes and mine is showing 28.5GB. Is that about right?

Anyone?

 

[RedRallyeZ]

Anyone?

My 32GB iP4 is showing 28.5 actual