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[Merged] 64GB for next-gen iPhone (2010 / 4th Gen)

We will get a 64GB iPhone this year?

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acurafan said:
so make a removable battery!! you can sugar-coat more colors on the phone but can't design a replaceable battery compartment??
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A replaceable battery would make the battery smaller.

Survey after survey confirms that most people who own phones with replaceable batteries don't own a 2nd battery anyway.

Thus, putting a replaceable battery in an iPhone will make battery life worse for the majority of Apple's customers.

Something that makes the phone worse for most people = Something Apple is not going to do.
 
It was also around this time of the year that people also doubted the existence of a 32GB iPhone. Hmm, I wonder about this year and the subsequent years to come. :rolleyes:
 
iMrNiceGuy0023 said:
64 GB iPod touch and iPad....iPhone is the biggest seller of them both, so im sure they will have 64
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These devices use 2 NAND chips. The iPhone only uses (and only has space for) 1 NAND chip. That's why the iPod has historically always had double the storage of the iPhone.

So, unless they announced a 128 GB iPod as well, they won't be announcing a 64 GB iPhone.
 
AbSoluTc said:
I take back my comment. The next iPhone should have 128GB. They have 64GB chips, they can fit 2!! :)
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I would love that. I hate having to be selective with my 72 gigs of music. And due to the size of my iPhoto library, I could never dream of having them on my iPhone for my personal viewing pleasure.

All I have room for is my apps and music. The rest goes to a few hundred pictures of vacancy in my Camera Roll or new Apps.

Heck, even 128 is just at the limit of "ideal" for my needs.
 
There better be a 64 gig model. I could possibly understand if the iPad had sucked up all the chips available in the world, but I highly doubt that they would allow the iPad to interfere with their most important product. A possible solution would be to stack two 32GB chips on top of each other to save a little space. Did we ever see all of the chips on the new phones board?
 
designgeek said:
There better be a 64 gig model. I could possibly understand if the iPad had sucked up all the chips available in the world, but I highly doubt that they would allow the iPad to interfere with their most important product. A possible solution would be to stack two 32GB chips on top of each other to save a little space. Did we ever see all of the chips on the new phones board?
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The same thought ran through my mind at one point.

We never saw the chips of the Gizmodo one and the Vietnamese phone never revealed the memory. Unless the new 20NM process Samsung is using somehow makes it possible, I seriously doubt it. I took apart my 3G the other day and that thing is tight. The 4G is 33% thinner but with a larger battery. I just don't see that happening.
 
AbSoluTc said:
Lol, might I remind you of the whole external memory card issues on android. You know, where you can't install external apps and such to the memory card? yeah, that.
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Android 2.2 allows apps to be installed on external storage, although I believe that the developer can choose whether to allow it or not.

Edit: Here we go:

Application developers can express the preferred installation location for their applications by means of a new attribute of <manifest> in the manifest file, android:installLocation. The attribute supports three values: "internalOnly", "preferExternal", and "auto". At install time, the system checks the value of android:installLocation and installs the application .apk according to the preferred location, if possible. If the application has requested external installation, the system installs it into a private, encrypted partition in the external media. Once an application .apk is installed externally, the system lets the user change the storage location of the .apk and move it onto the device's internal memory if needed (and vice versa), through Manage Applications in the user settings.
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They better offer a 64 GB one. Even 128 GB wouldn't be enough for me. Current 32 GB is like the bare minimum and now I don't even have any videos or photos on my iPhone. I think about 250 to 300 GB would be enough for me for a few years to come. So saying that 64 GB is too much for anyone is just stupid. I'd like to have all my music and all my photographs on my phone and still have plenty of space for apps/etc.

Having the stuff streamed to the iPhone instead wouldn't be an optimal solution, because it takes a lot of battery and bandwidth. And at least in Finland the only iPhone carrier has a rather lousy network and they don't offer true unlimited data either.
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So Apple better step up and offer at least 64 GB with the next iPhone. I don't care how it's done, it just has to happen, but without sacrificing battery life or making the phone more expensive than the current top of the line model.
 
64 a nice to have? Yes, but if Apple only introduces a 32 it's not a fail as some want you to believe.
 
skip2 said:
So Apple better step up and offer at least 64 GB with the next iPhone. I don't care how it's done, it just has to happen, but without sacrificing battery life or making the phone more expensive than the current top of the line model.
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But what you are demanding simply may not be possible. I'm sure if it is, they'll do it; but you have to realize that there are limits to current technology even today. You say "I don't care how it's done," but then you forbid what may be the only two ways of accomplishing what you want. Unless there is a much cheaper 64GB NAND chip out there than most of us are aware of, it may simply not be possible todouble the RAM without either increasing the price or decreasing the size of the battery.
 
thelatinist said:
But what you are demanding simply may not be possible. I'm sure if it is, they'll do it; but you have to realize that there are limits to current technology even today. You say "I don't care how it's done," but then you forbid what may be the only two ways of accomplishing what you want. Unless there is a much cheaper 64GB NAND chip out there than most of us are aware of, it may simply not be possible todouble the RAM without either increasing the price or decreasing the size of the battery.
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Anything is possible, you just have to find out a way and I'm hoping Apple engineers do, because for me 32 GB would be a definite fail.
 
If Apple doesn't add a 64 GB model, then for me they have to make sure the prices come down. No way a 32 GB model with the smaller screen size can stay at today's prices.
 
Who in the world would need a 64GB phone? I thought 32GB would be a sweet spot but I don't even fill it up anymore like I used to. Although I'm glad I got a 32GB, but probably could have been fine with 16GB.
 
skip2 said:
Anything is possible, you just have to find out a way and I'm hoping Apple engineers do, because for me 32 GB would be a definite fail.
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You don't seem to get it. Apple has to make the iPhone from components that are currently available on the market and which they can purchase about 20 million of over the next year. As far as I know, the only 64 GB NAND flash memory chip currently announced is Toshiba's -- and they announced less than two weeks ago that mass production would begin "this summer." Does that sound like they have a couple of million lying around? Besides, the price of such a chip is likely to be too high to satisfy your price requirement.

If such a chip is not available or is too expensive, the only way to double capacity may be to add a second memory chip. And that would not be possible without a complete redesign that would have to sacrifice something...what would you have them take out? The GPS? The cellular radio? The screen? No, the only thing they could really do would be to reduce the battery size.
 
AbSoluTc said:
Lol, might I remind you of the whole external memory card issues on android. You know, where you can't install external apps and such to the memory card? yeah, that.
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Starting with Android 2.2, apps can go on the storage card. However, with 8GB internal, and up to 32GB swappable addon slot for data and multimedia on devices like the Incredible, I've seen no need for it.

Not that this has anything to do with whether or not Apple can or should put 64GB on the iPhone. You're just trying to deflect criticism away from Apple.

A better question would be to ask why Apple doesn't allow iPhone users to upgrade themselves by adding more storage via cards. Wouldn't it have been great to be able to start with an 8GB phone and pop in another 32GB?

ozzyman500 said:
Who in the world would need a 64GB phone? I thought 32GB would be a sweet spot but I don't even fill it up anymore like I used to. Although I'm glad I got a 32GB, but probably could have been fine with 16GB.
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Someone always needs more :)

Comments like this have been around since the days of 4K memory. "Why would anyone need more?" has historically been a computer question that gets outdated rapidly.
 
kdarling said:
Someone always needs more :)

Comments like this have been around since the days of 4K memory. "Why would anyone need more?" has historically been a computer question that gets outdated rapidly.
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Whatever. I have almost 50 gigs of music - which are all encoded at 256. I can easily fit half of that on my phone. People need to learn how to pick and choose. We're in a world of technology that you can stream any song to your phone whenever you want. You don't need all that space.
 
AbSoluTc said:
64 is too much for a damn phone.
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I would love to have an iPhone with 1TB! :)

Edit: Apparently, some think I am expecting a 1TB iPhone. I am not. I would expect 64GB at most this iteration.

AbSoluTc said:
The next iPhone should have 128GB. They have 64GB chips, they can fit 2!! :)
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Traditionally, the iPhone and iPod touch use the same memory chip.

The iPhone has one slot and the iPod touch has two slots. The second slot space is where the telephone part of the iPhone is placed.

Geckotek said:
So, unless they announced a 128 GB iPod as well, they won't be announcing a 64 GB iPhone.
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Agree.

Vitruviux said:
When it comes to memory, the more is always better.
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There is no such thing as too much memory. :)
 
thelatinist said:
You don't seem to get it. Apple has to make the iPhone from components that are currently available on the market and which they can purchase about 20 million of over the next year. As far as I know, the only 64 GB NAND flash memory chip currently announced is Toshiba's -- and they announced less than two weeks ago that mass production would begin "this summer." Does that sound like they have a couple of million lying around? Besides, the price of such a chip is likely to be too high to satisfy your price requirement.

If such a chip is not available or is too expensive, the only way to double capacity may be to add a second memory chip. And that would not be possible without a complete redesign that would have to sacrifice something...what would you have them take out? The GPS? The cellular radio? The screen? No, the only thing they could really do would be to reduce the battery size.
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From what I've seen, the new iPhone is completely redesigned. Other parts can be made smaller. One good example is the micro-SIM. I also heard that the screen is a lot thinner than on the current version. Like I said, I don't care how it's done as long as it's done without sacrificing the battery life or increasing the price. I also would not like to sacrifice any functionality. I remember people doubting the 32 GB iPhone too and look what happened.
 
ozzyman500 said:
For computers yes - mobile devices, around 32GB is the sweet spot.
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For you, maybe. I use my iPhone as my primary mp3 player. I have around 28GB of music that I would like to keep locally on my phone (I currently have a 32GB iPhone), because my iPhone is my primary mp3 player. With a 32GB device, that doesn't leave a whole lot of room for all the other things that you can use your iPhone's storage memory for. 64GB would be *my* sweet spot, so I don't see why you - completely arbitrarily - state that 32GB should do the trick for everyone.

And to pre-empt the inevitable, "if you want a 64GB mp3 player, buy an iPod Touch, the iPhone is meant to be a phone" response, I thought that people wanting to use their iPhone as both their phone AND their iPod was precisely the point of having an iPod functionality on the iPhone. Arguing otherwise is having your cake and eating it.

That's not to say that I'm necessarily right and that 64GB should be the current Holy Grail of iPhone storage capacity - plenty of people will be happy with 32GB or less. But equally, plenty of people want and need more than 32GB of iPhone storage, so you don't really have any business telling them what they want, even if a 64GB model isn't released this year. We might not get it (and we can live with that), but nobody can tell us that we don't want it.
 
I can′t believe that some people are against going into more storage option. Some of us have big music libraries, want to put many pics on it, maybe a season or 2 of some TV shows, a few movies and music videos. We want to put navigation app that can take a few GBs. I would buy 64GB in a second. Mobile phones are almost computers now. We need more storage.

I don′t have to mention that the new iPhone is supposed to have 720p video recording, right? We do need more storage!
 
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