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Is a 16GB iphone so bad?

Yep, do what's best for you! You can have regret either way.

I ordered 128, and I wish I had gotten 64. Most people I know use 16 and love them. The price on the 16s is the best value IMHO. You get everything anyone else does, except for some storage.
 
Doesn't Amazon Music look at your hard drive and give you access to a lot of your library in the cloud (even music not from Amazon)?
 
powerbook911 said:
Yep, do what's best for you! You can have regret either way.

I ordered 128, and I wish I had gotten 64. Most people I know use 16 and love them. The price on the 16s is the best value IMHO. You get everything anyone else does, except for some storage.
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I actually wish they had a 32. I have gotten used to that in my 5c. I had 64GB on the 4S and was a little hesitant to step down. I'd be reluctant to step down again to the 16, I think. But that price point is very attractive, especially since I'd like to have the Apple Pay feature but I have other iOS devices I carry around anyway with musci and video on them.

Anyway by time I go for another iPhone (i am pretty sure to skip this cycle) I will probably go for the 64. It's true what you said about possibility of regret no matter what size we order, but also true we generally get over it and just enjoy our iPhones, they are so great. :)
 
I can't do it, if you can that's great but my 64 is full now with a 128 6+ preordered.
I travel and download all my spotify to play offline so if I lose service I can still listen and I don't burn up data.
I also take a lot of pics/videos so yeah I'd die with a 16!
 
I have been on the brink of max capacity with my 16GB IP4 for awhile. I couldn't deal with 16GB again and the jump to 64GB is small enough to make it an easy decision.
 
retroboomin said:
If you have unlimited 4G data?
Is there's a way to keep all your music on icloud and play it from there instead of the phone harddrive?
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Yes iTunes Match is what you're looking for.

It saves your entire iTunes Music library to the iCloud and is accessible from any of your iOS devices. It's $25/yr but that's cheaper than $100 for extra physical storage. Combined with unlimited data, I don't have to waste storage on my iPhone or iPad with music anymore. You also have to option of downloading any of your songs to your device physically if you know you're going to an area where you won't have good service or WiFi. You can delete them later to get your space back.

That said I do have a 32GB 5S though because I like to take a lot of pics and record videos.
 
I've had a 32 gb iphone 5 for two years. I'm using 11 gigs. I went for the 16 6 this morning because now that they give you 20 gb in the cloud I'll be totally straight.

I also have a 16gb ipad air. I use it as a consumption device.
 
retroboomin said:
If you have unlimited 4G data?
Is there's a way to keep all your music on icloud and play it from there instead of the phone harddrive?
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If you plan on having a lot of music it can fill up quick. Remember 16 is size of phone without ios. Once ios software is running you are at about 13-14. Then music- couple apps - those big hd file videos and photos you may take. You will run out of space in couple months.

I use to have 16GB phones. Now I run out of that before even putting music.
 
16GB isn't 'bad', it's just too little for a lot, if not most people. With that being said, if you don't mind managing your media, Apps and other things constantly and being in check, you can get away with 16GB. I've had to do that for a while now but it's time to upgrade. Having to constantly monitor my space is a P.I.T.A:mad:
 
retroboomin said:
If you have unlimited 4G data?
Is there's a way to keep all your music on icloud and play it from there instead of the phone harddrive?
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With T-Mobile, pretty much all music you stream doesn't count against your data.
But remember this. It says 16gb of internal storage of which only about 12gb is usable. In this day of age, that is not enough. Photos, videos and apps quickly eat through 12gb if storage. Then you are stuck deciding what you want to keep and what you want to delete. Just not worth it.
Apple should have dumped the base 16gb model and started with a 32gb model. But they are greedy and knew more people would fork over the cash for 64gb models by not having a 32gb option.
 
To answer the OP. YES!! Just use google music. All for free. Upload 50,000 songs. Access them with the google music app any time. No cost to you except your normal 3G or 4g wireless service. Have been doing this for a couple years now.
 
I would say it's definitely manageable, but you may have to make some sacrifices. But it all depends on your usage. Everyone's milage will vary. I tend to take a lot of pictures and have to dump them on my computer often for space reasons which means they are no longer accessible to me on my phone (might be fixed with iCloud), but I also have a lot of larger apps on my phone. All in all, I think the days of 16GB being enough for a mobile phone are dwindling away.
 
I was a 16GB user too, but it was getting to the point I had to delete a few songs just to download a new app. I don't even take a lot of photos or videos.

Each iOS update is going to take up more and more space and knock your starting storage down over time. That and apps get larger also, plus better cameras mean larger image and video files. The 16GB is not going to get any easier to manage on the iPhone 6/6+.
 
I've had a 16GB iPhone 5 since November 2012. Never used all of the available space. I have around ~3GB of space free. I don't store music or videos on the phone and leverage cloud solutions for most things. Only thing that takes up space are photos (infrequent at best). But I realize I am not your average user. So think about how you use your phone. For $100 more though, you do get 4x the space, so you have to evaluate whether that $100 is worth it for your use case.
 
I don't have many apps on my iPhone. I do all that on my iPad instead. Still, each year I've been inching closer and closer to the capacity from photos and music. I felt it was finally time to bump up to the higher storage.
 
16 is plenty. For me. It all depends on your dependence on "local" music. I see most people in this thread depend on that. I've been on Spotify premium and Rdio for about two years and have company data so I don't need to store music on the phone itself.

Also I don't need thousands of pics and videos in my pocket. I offload those when I need to to the iPad or iMac.

So yes. It's entirely possible.

Do what works for you.
 
I don't think so. I have never run out of space, and most of the Apps I have are hardly used. If its a problem Il sell and buy a 64gb.
 
shenan1982 said:
In theory you could, but why? Spend the $100 more, you'll get at least 2/3 of it back in resale.
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Is this really the case? I compared the 16gb and 64gb models of the 5 and 5s on Gazelle and eBay and the difference between them ranged from $20-40 on average. Kind of disappointing considering the 64gb cost $200 more back then. I wonder how the 6 will fare in a year or two...
 
You can get by on the cloud if you are in an area with cellular service/ WiFi service all the time. If you are out in the rural West or fly a lot - you maybe locked out of accessing the cloud.

Also, most of the cloud is not free. Consider the $100 fixed cost now versus paying $2 - $10 a month for various music/ photo/ storage cloud based services over 2 years.

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erikjc said:
Is this really the case? I compared the 16gb and 64gb models of the 5 and 5s on Gazelle and eBay and the difference between them ranged from $20-40 on average. Kind of disappointing considering the 64gb cost $200 more back then. I wonder how the 6 will fare in a year or two...
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16GB iPhone 5 was priced exactly the same as the 64GB version on Apple's trade-in program. Not a cent more for higher storage.
 
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