YOU might think 50gb of storage is worthless, but stop pretending the same holds true for everyone else. Apparently I have different listening habits than you do, and it seems I'm not the only person on this board who would welcome more storage.
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[Merged] 64GB for next-gen iPhone (2010 / 4th Gen)
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YOU might think 50gb of storage is worthless, but stop pretending the same holds true for everyone else. Apparently I have different listening habits than you do, and it seems I'm not the only person on this board who would welcome more storage.
Dude, what you are asking for is impossible. Thats like saying I want a Lamborghini, but it should be very fuel efficient, and not cost a lot, and be a very practical car. You have to compromise somewhere. As much as they may want to, Apple cannot bend the laws of science to make this phone.
Meh. I have a 32GB phone. I think that is the sweet spot for portable media. I have about 20GB of music synced and 1.5GB of apps (including a nav app) and 1GB of tv shows. That's perfectly fine for me. I don't see how it couldn't be any different for anyone else who has the same data plan. I only sync up about once a week. Easy.
Now if you talked about movies, that would be a different story and you would need recharging every few hours.
For some of us it's actually decades.
I have so much music that I have to make choices to eliminate vast quantities of stuff when I load a portable device, so it doesn't often matter much whether I am stuffing my selections into 32 or 64GB. I use an old 8GB iPod touch sometimes just because I can delete-all and then throw a few movies and audiobooks or podcasts plus a whole bunch of music on there on a whim. Sometimes less is more. That's the attraction of the little shuffles, too, at least for me. For everyday use, I keep a 64GB iPod touch with lots of favorite movies, a few current playlists and desert island collections of music, only a few apps. Then on a 32GB iPhone I keep lots of apps, just two or three desert island movies, a few TV shows, and lots of music including tons of old favorites from various genres, plus any recent picks. I leave a fair amount of room on the iPhone so I can tack in stuff quickly without having to figure out what to delete. Movies are the first thing I will delete off the phone when I am thinking to maintain that comfortable margin of empty space.
It's understandable that guys especially might prefer more storage on a single device, especially if they don't carry a backpack. I really don't mind having the two items in a purse, although sometimes I only take the phone and maybe a nano or something to play in the car.
So, in other words, you have one opinion and fail to see how someone else could have another? Right...
I guess that's the line of thinking required to state that an arbitrary amount of memory is the sweet spot for a mobile device and fail to understand why anyone would want anything else. Finally, to lend some credibility to my post, I better end it with: get over it.
Simply because some users don't feel the need to carry around large amounts of media does not mean that the option shouldn't be there for those of us who do.
I'm hoping there is a 64GB iPhone so I get get a 32GB for $199.
I think they may stop production on the 3G and 3GS, and have 16/32/64GB at $99/199/299.
I think they may stop production on the 3G and 3GS, and have 16/32/64GB at $99/199/299.
Agreed. It'll be hard to sell a 3GS at $99 when it doesn't even look the same as the others. Apple might as well drop it and go with three sizes, two colors, 6 models in total iPad style.
I'm hopeful for a 64GB model, but doubtful based on the information we have at this time.
That being said, you know what sucks?? Wanting to share (play) a song with a friend for some reason and realizing that song is not on your phone due to having to make a decision to leave half of your music library off of your phone.
Oh, and podcasts! Podcasts are what REALLY kill my space.
And whoever said streaming is not considering that you may not always have signal or want to kill your battery.
That being said, you know what sucks?? Wanting to share (play) a song with a friend for some reason and realizing that song is not on your phone due to having to make a decision to leave half of your music library off of your phone.
Oh, and podcasts! Podcasts are what REALLY kill my space.
And whoever said streaming is not considering that you may not always have signal or want to kill your battery.
LOL, that's a terrible analogy. I wouldn't want a Lamborghini anyway as I think they're hideous, but I wouldn't mind a car which is "very fuel efficient, and not cost a lot, and be a very practical".
Anyway, do you know what the cost of a 64 GB chip is now vs. a 32 GB one a year ago? Are you certain that no other component has been made smaller during the year, to maybe fit more memory? Or that the newly designed iPhone can't fit more stuff in it because it's entirely different than the current one?
Like I've said earlier, I do no claim that there will be a 64 GB iPhone out soonish, but the exact opposite claim is rather ridiculous too as you cannot know for sure. You guys present your statements as facts, but I'm guessing most of you have absolutely no idea what the real situation is.
And I can tell you all for sure that putting out a 64 GB iPhone wouldn't be even close to bending the laws of science.
I haven't looked at the prices, this is the one possibility I can think of that might work.
Yes, and it is the PCB. There is MUCH less room on the PCB than there was before. I am 100% sure there is only room for 1 NAND chip.
This is true, this is an educated guess, not a fact. But I'm fairly certain that the only possibility is if they use a single 64GB NAND chip. Most of the people responding to your posts are pretty familiar w/ the phone and several of us are familiar w/ the internals.
The iPhone has always had one of the smaller capacity batteries in a smartphone. Not making it easily swappable hasn't seemed to help its size at all.
Making it harder to remove mostly has the effect of making the phone less likely to pop open when dropped. This is good, but a downside is if the device gets wet, the user can't pop out the battery to try to help prevent more damage.
THIS, ozzyman500, this.
I'm really glad that I'm not the only one trying to squeeze way too much music onto a mobile device. My current 16GB touch is killing me.
You somehow managed miss the entire point of my analogy. The point I was making with the Lamborghini (which incidentally are beautiful cars) was not the design. but rather the speed/performance of a supercar, something which is synonymous with poor fuel efficiency. A fuel efficient, practical, cheap car is easy to make, but try make a fast one.
I never said it there wouldn't be a 64 GB iPhone, I merely implied there wouldn't be one without compromise. As people have explained previously, its not space in the phone that is a problem, is space on that the iPhone only has 1 free socket for an NAND chip. The 64 GB chips are expensive at the moment, which would probably mean a compromise in price (which you don't want) and that's if there are even enough chips available, since they havent been in production for very long.
Learn to follow what I've written, I said WITHOUT A COMPROMISE it wouldn't happen. Also, I never said my view was a fact. I didn't claim that your point was wrong. If you know what the "real situation" is please feel free to share. I'd be happy to concede to you if you had any valid points, but you don't. I doubt very much that you know what the real situation is to a better extent than the rest of us.
Seriously, stop arguing out of context, I said that doing it without compromising something would bend the laws of science.
i think there will be. but it will probably be like $499 with 2 year contract.
as you probably know, the iPhone has one memory slot, the iPod touch has two slots. And as of now apple only uses 32gb cards and smaller.
Now, there are many 64gb cards made in the world, it's just a question as to whether apple trusts any of these brands and whether they will think it will be somewhat cost-effective
i sure hope they do. because my 32gb touch is totally full, and i'll need more space than that if i'm gonna pay big bucks for an iphone and its plan.
as you probably know, the iPhone has one memory slot, the iPod touch has two slots. And as of now apple only uses 32gb cards and smaller.
Now, there are many 64gb cards made in the world, it's just a question as to whether apple trusts any of these brands and whether they will think it will be somewhat cost-effective
i sure hope they do. because my 32gb touch is totally full, and i'll need more space than that if i'm gonna pay big bucks for an iphone and its plan.
They'd be nuts not to have 64Gb capacity. If the next iPhone does record 720p video then it'll eat 32Gb for lunch. Also, if the next iPhone has the higher-res display then we'll be wanting to store better quality video to take advantage of it, more space needed. Then you've got to consider the higher-res photos the iPhone will be taking & more app storage needed (higher-res textures etc.)
Very true. Out of all the reasons I have for them needing to upgrade it, I hadn't even thought of these.
It surprised me when I saw that one of those leaked prototypes said 16gb on the back. That'll hopefully be just the entry level model.
just to throw this out there, i know the ipad and ipod touch come in 64GB forms, but how long does it take to do a full sync or full backup of these devices? I know it takes me awhile when I do a restore to copy my 14GB of media over it must take hours.
Maybe this year they will discontinue the 3G, make thew 3GS 16GB the lower model (like the 3G currently), and have a 32/64GB iPhone 4.
Sorry I sort of exaggerated. Toshiba and Samsung (and possibly SanDisk) are the only major brands with the technology. According to some, such as Apple Insider, Toshiba's chip is the most likely to be used in the iPhone because the 3GS used Toshiba's 32gb chip. I hope that helps. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/12/15/toshiba_announces_64gb_nand_flash_chip_likely_iphone_bound.html
AFAIK, Toshiba is the only one that has confirmed having a 64GB chip.
Edit: has anybody located the current cost of a NAND chip? I read $100 on one website, but not sure how reliable that is.