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iPhone 6 Said to Launch on Friday, September 19 in 32 GB and 64 GB Variants
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That's iOS and it's 2.5GB on my phone, so I only have 13.5 GB of usable space, of which 8GB are apps, which I regularly trim to only the useful ones. I only keep 2 GB of music on my phone. That leaves 3GB for photos/videos.
On my 64GB iPad after trying to add a season of tv show to it, I realized that it was not intended for local storage for HD video, so I won't use it for that anymore.
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Well, yeah it came and went, but man did I hope it would release earlier because the 5s was such an incremental update. After all, they have released a few iPhones in the summer, but yeah... I doubt they ever will again, because they like to capitalize on holiday sales.
Yes!
32GB is a must, 16GB/12GB is killing people. It's the only way to keep it "premium" and keeps the App Store/iTunes ecosystem going. Heck, I can't even take updates without deleting and then reloading apps on my 16GB 5.
I won't be surprised if the bigger phone starts at $300 on contract, has more RAM and an option for 128GB storage. 'Cause some people want more geebees!
32GB is a must, 16GB/12GB is killing people. It's the only way to keep it "premium" and keeps the App Store/iTunes ecosystem going. Heck, I can't even take updates without deleting and then reloading apps on my 16GB 5.
I won't be surprised if the bigger phone starts at $300 on contract, has more RAM and an option for 128GB storage. 'Cause some people want more geebees!
We do not have same usage. I could fill 256 GB.
Spotify ? Do you travel or experienced no radio service on a daily basis?
Power users are pro who do not a photos or games centric life...
How did simply using an iPhone make managing your music harder? The fact that you now have more music on a smaller capacity device is not an example of the iPhone making your life harder. You did it to yourself.
Once I started using smart playlists, I do not find it harder to manage my music.
128gb
I'm still on an iPhone 4S, 64GB, and I've been waiting for a 128GB, my iPhone is nearly full after clearing out nearly half the photos. I'd like a larger screen, but my reason for not updating so far has been the lack of an 128GB model. If the upcoming model(s) is not 128GB, I won't upgrade.
I'm still on an iPhone 4S, 64GB, and I've been waiting for a 128GB, my iPhone is nearly full after clearing out nearly half the photos. I'd like a larger screen, but my reason for not updating so far has been the lack of an 128GB model. If the upcoming model(s) is not 128GB, I won't upgrade.
Yeah, agreed, all my audio from the last 2 years is ALAC. So the amount of songs I can store on my phone has dwindled considerably when the average track is 30MB.
Good questions!
Beyond that this approach would be very anti user. What happens if I don't want to spend money on iCloud? Or as you point out maybe I don't want to pay the bandwidth charges. Where is the user control. From my perspective Apples love affair with iCloud is getting down right ugly.
Beyond all of that there are some really ugly behaviors with respect to photo handling already in iOS when used in conjunction with iCloud.
At a massive increase in cost for the consumer! This is the big problem with cloud based services beyond the clunky way they work. In the case of iCloud it doesn't look like they will come even close to Dropboxes usability. I'd like to be wrong here and maybe I am p, but I just don't see iCloud being improved all that much. In some cases they are stepping backwards.
Apple is obviously trying to fix a very broken iCloud service but honestly I'm not sure if they get it still. They are at least trying to meet the needs of developers but I don't think they graps the needs of users well. So at this point we will have to see how iOS stabilizes in iOS 8, I just don't see it as fixed in a way that solves people's issues.
I can't see how that would ever work well. The bandwidth simply isn't there and isnt relaible enough. Just yesterday I was on an LTE link that I use a lot and it was slower than a glacier. So slow that I rebooted my iPad thinking that the beta OS was the problem. Nope just dog slow connection speeds.
Beyond that this approach would be very anti user. What happens if I don't want to spend money on iCloud? Or as you point out maybe I don't want to pay the bandwidth charges. Where is the user control. From my perspective Apples love affair with iCloud is getting down right ugly.
Beyond all of that there are some really ugly behaviors with respect to photo handling already in iOS when used in conjunction with iCloud.
I haven't looked into iOS's photo stream support in depth yet. My primary problem is that I just don't like how iCloud works at all and this minimize my usage of the feature in conjunction with photos. It is to the point right now that I'd rather E-Mail pics to other platforms instead of messing around with iCloud.
At a massive increase in cost for the consumer! This is the big problem with cloud based services beyond the clunky way they work. In the case of iCloud it doesn't look like they will come even close to Dropboxes usability. I'd like to be wrong here and maybe I am p, but I just don't see iCloud being improved all that much. In some cases they are stepping backwards.
A car can last for 20 yrs, no smart phone today will be around in 20 yrs. Im with att and contract pricing is going bye bye. I went there and was told its no money down and then a monthly fee for 24 months or the $199 and then some fee I have now thats $15 a month would go to $40 a month. So it was to push one to the paying the phone off.
Now everyone can do what they want but I wont be upgrading as often with this change.
Not without a significant overhaul to iOS.
The problem comes down to this, how would you access the SD storage from apps and the like! Apple would need to significantly overhaul iOS to support that SD card properly.
The problem comes down to this, how would you access the SD storage from apps and the like! Apple would need to significantly overhaul iOS to support that SD card properly.
Yes they would. Android tries, but I develop for them and each one handles it a little different. I can be a nightmare...
Same here...i have a 16GB iPhone and a 16GB iPad and i manage just fine, but that's only because i don't put movies/tv shows on my devices just photos/music and i don't have a lot of apps..
But i understand why some people would want 128GB, if you put movies and tv shows on your device that can eat up your storage quite fast...
It would be nice to have more storage and not worry about it!
Yeah, people keep saying 16GB is the most popular so it must be the size everyone wants. That's an asinine argument. It's the most popular be it's a $100 cheaper than the next size. That's a huge hit on the wallet for 50% of american households that make less than 40k a year. And I agree, apps are really getting storage hungry, and 1080p videos are super storage hungry.
Also, iCloud costs money if you want more than 5GB of storage.
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And then his "life problem" becomes cell service provider tiered data costs. And that problem exists every single month he owns his phone. And pinched on-board storage begs for data burn because you can't seem to have enough with you when space is so limited.
I'm glad that cloud storage works for many… or that they don't mind burning cash to stream their own media through toll booths owned by AT&T, Verizon, etc. However, there are those who don't want to pay the tolls but still have access to their own media. If there is (internal) room to sync it, they don't have to stream it, don't have to burn data and don't move toward the tier limits playing media that is already owned.
Sure the cloud seems like an ideal solution… until you factor in the economics of tiered data. Those 2 variables of the cloud are at direct odds with each other. One offers conceptually unlimited storage on demand while the other pinches the amount of data one can stream at each tier toll booth.
"Just use the cloud" guys always seem to ignore the streaming tiers piece of that suggestion. Maybe they don't pay for their own data plans? Maybe they don't care about the cost of their plan?
Still find Apple pricing on extra ram a rip off. In Belgium, a 5s/64go is 899.
That is more or less $1226.
Which also means you have to pay more or less $272 to add 48go of ram to the base model. I imagine you could by 3 or 4 128go SD card for the same price.
That is more or less $1226.
Which also means you have to pay more or less $272 to add 48go of ram to the base model. I imagine you could by 3 or 4 128go SD card for the same price.
Uh...and why Apple would limit developers..with Metal coming up, I am expecting console level games to come to IOS.
Maybe this is Apple acknowledging a 3rd resolution it is coming and devs will need to add 3 assets to their apps....will see.
Wow! You must take a lot of photos!
Lets say you have 50GB of space for photos after filling 14GB with apps, music etc. A typical photo from the iPhone camera will be around 2.5MB, max. So you have space for at least 20,000 photos.
On a 2 week vacation, that's 1400 photos per day! Perhaps you need to spend less time taking photos and more time enjoying your vacation?
The Easiest way I know of to check App space usage is in the settings app. For example on a clean install on beta iOS GarageBand takes up 722 GB of storage or almost 3/4 of a GB. Mind you that is a clean install with nothing downloaded and no user generated files. I've had some apps,that I had to uninstall simply because of excessive storage usage, one being a weather app of all things.
I'll echo the people on here. I have a 64 GB 5S right now and don't believe I would upgrade if they don't offer a 128 GB iPhone. I have my 64 GB 5S filled to capacity with music and it would be nice if I didn't have to delete an album to add an album. A 128 GB model offers me additional function, a 64 GB - regardless of what gimmick they put on it this year - does not.
Sigh. Stop with this kinda comments already. I don't want a 4.7 inch. But that's what Apple is heading now so we have no other choice if we want an iphone.
So what does everyone think about Apple's darkhorse for September, the iPhone 6C? It probably would have 5S components including the 4" screen and 16GB storage in the new 6 case style but with colors for $99 and an option to upgrade 32GB. It could really be successful this time if the case seems comparable to the other models and not "cheap". Especially with those people who want the smaller form factor, don't need much memory or are on a tight budget.
I'm really surprised there haven't been more rumors about a continued 4" model, there has to be something and I don't think they will continue to sell the 5S - the case is too expensive for a mid-tier product.Then they would have models at $99, $199 and $299 that are all different sizes and features which justify the $100 upgrade. If they would drop the storage upgrades to $50 this would all start to make sense! (*crosses fingers*)
iPhone 6C: $99 16GB/$149 32GB. 4" screen, A7, 1GB RAM, color cases, NFC?.
iPhone 6: $199 32GB/$249 64GB. 4.7" screen, A8, 1GB RAM, camera lens updates, NFC.
iPhone 6X: $299 32GB/$349 64GB/$399 128GB. 5.5" screen, A8, 2GB RAM?, OIS, NFC.
Notice there aren't any overlaps in price between the models?