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Is there any hope for more memory?

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SSonnentag

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Jan 18, 2006
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I find 64GB to be too restricting. I'd like to be able to carry my entire music and audio book library with me instead of having to pick and choose what to download. The sync process is too slow to make changing the phone's content practical on a regular basis. I'd be happy with 256GB. Any takers? :)
 
Hardly... there are 256GB NAND modules, but they are engineering test grade and prohibitively expensive for at least the next 5 years.

Not to mention, they are slow. (10MB/s read/write)
 
SSonnentag said:
I find 64GB to be too restricting.
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Oh progress doesn't stop, so probably getting a 128GB next alliteration.


The sync process is too slow to make changing the phone's content practical on a regular basis.
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Surely,you are not changing the whole 64GB at every sync.


I'd be happy with 256GB. Any takers? :)
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Doesn't matter what we take.

Channeling Paul Teutul Sr: Customer will buy what we make!
 
If it's just music and audio books you want to have available have you considered itunes match?

I've found it well worth the nominal yearly fee Apple charges to be able to listen to what I want when I want from my collection, so much so that my 32Gb iphone is only ever half full and that is mostly apps and photos/videos
 
SSonnentag said:
Well, I can wish. :)

I'm hoping Toshiba can soon hook Apple up with some higher capacity NAND chips.
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Everyone can wish.

If we see 128GB we will be lucky. Not going near 256GB for a while. I think you need to seriously prioritize what you have on your phone. I have 90GB of docs, music and photos on my 128GB iPad and could have less and get by.
 
Bacong said:
256gb. jesus christ. the things people complain about with the incredible devices we have
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In the past 5 years the storage capacity of the phone has increased by a factor of 16. I don't see it as outlandish (and outside of technological progress) to expect increased storage as time goes on.
 
While there is always hope, I don't see the capacities changing. Apple and others want you to use their cloud services.
 
Don't think so. Apple probably doesn't want to make those larger capacities so customers can focus on their cloud storage options.
 
I would love for Apple to make 32 GB the standard - especially since HTC did it this year what I consider one of (if not THE) the best smartphones of 2013.

No expandable storage, higher graphics capabilities = larger apps with no room to put them. The cloud is awesome for documents, photos and music - but I store all that in the cloud already and still am about half-full on my 32 GB iPhone.

I don't need/want the really high storage options. Just would like the standard to inch up as apps become more robust.

To be honest, if people (and devs) didn't have to worry about the storage on their phone, we might see more robust apps that actually take advantage of all that power we hold in our hands (yes, even on the iPhone).

One can hope :D
 
Although I managed to fund my move to 64GB only this year, I would like to see them bring down those memory prices and make more storage available to people. 16GB is too small, what with universal retina apps, HD pics and video etc - and even some cloud features like shared photo streams can take up a lot of room. I understand why they don't support SD cards etc, but they can't keep treating 32 and 64GB like a luxury feature at the same time.
 
SSonnentag said:
Is there any hope for more memory?
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Nope. It's 64GB forever. 640KB is all you need anyway.

Of course there's hope.

Bacong said:
256gb. jesus christ. the things people complain about with the incredible devices we have
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There's never enough storage. Has always been that way -- even back when my first PC had a 120MB (yes, MB) hard drive -- and will continue to be that way.
 
ucfgrad93 said:
While there is always hope, I don't see the capacities changing. Apple and others want you to use their cloud services.
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They they need to come out with better cloud services. I have a bunch of pictures on my phone, and nothing they offer helps with that. I can't even use iCloud to backup my phone without paying $100 a year. That's ridiculous just to backup my phone while offering me no additional storage. These cloud services that everyone mentions do absolutely nothing to help me, unless draining my wallet more every year is helpful.
 
I don't have an iPhone, rather 2 Sony Androids which are 8 and 16Gb but accept microSD cards.

I do have a 64Gb iPod Touch 5th Gen. and that's never enough space for me; I keep having to swap out old albums when I add something new...but that's just me, there is stuff on there I never listen to and I should consider something like iTunes Match.

Have recently started using Google Play Music All Access on my phones and it works pretty well.
 
takeshi74 said:
. . . There's never enough storage. Has always been that way -- even back when my first PC had a 120MB (yes, MB) hard drive -- and will continue to be that way.
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My first computer had 1KB of Memory and stored data to Cassette Tape.

1GB is 1048576 KB.

Sinclair ZX80 Specs

:D :eek:

People that want to fully make use of the features of their technology will always find a way to use the available storage as you say.
 
I think a better alternative to more memory would be for apple to fix itunes match.. I cant even use it because it always gives me clean versions of songs.. ::/
 
Mrbobb said:
Oh progress doesn't stop, so probably getting a 128GB next alliteration.
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"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

While I am all for more memory, I agree that Apple has it's head in the Cloud.
 
CelestialToys said:
If it's just music and audio books you want to have available have you considered itunes match?

I've found it well worth the nominal yearly fee Apple charges to be able to listen to what I want when I want from my collection, so much so that my 32Gb iphone is only ever half full and that is mostly apps and photos/videos
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The problem is the lack of "real" unlimited cellular data options.
 
ajiuo said:
I think a better alternative to more memory would be for apple to fix itunes match.. I cant even use it because it always gives me clean versions of songs.. ::/
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That's Apple, always sanitizing stuff for us. :D

Apple won't do this because there is no money for them, but I want a MusicMatch feature where if request is not on the phone it goes out on the Net, not to Apple, but talks to my home iTunes server, which wakes up, and upload the correct dirty version.

while iTunes is at it. Know how that Fusion drive works, keep the most accessed stuff on solid state memory, iTunes smart will unload the oldest media I haven't touched in months, automatically. AND expertly identifies what mood I am in lately and swap the appropriate tunes to my phone automatically. Gets them there before I even request them. DREAM ON?
 
ucfgrad93 said:
While there is always hope, I don't see the capacities changing. Apple and others want you to use their cloud services.
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Sadly, I think this is true.

Cloud services are not a great replacement for local storage for me. My 1 GB of data doesn't go very far in contrast to 60GB storage. I also use my phone as a primary source of entertainment when traveling internationally. I'm hoping for an upward storage shift on the while line.
 
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