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So who is going 64GB?

I have 8GB left on my 16GB. I use dropbox for pictures and my music playlist changes every month from when I sync to iTunes. I currently have about 100 songs now. No movies because I can't watch a full length movie on a small screen. 3 pages of apps.
 
Ended up ordering a 32gb for myself, same as my 4s, and a 16gb for my dad, downsizing him from 32gb 4s (I recommended he get it for the 8mp camera). He used 3gb on it and mostly listens to pandora.
 
I decided to just go for 64GB. why not? I plan to have the phone for at least 2 years.

Normally, I think the value for price is more in the middle of the road spec when it comes to technology. I'd expect the 32GB to be a standard config. I generally go for middle of the road myself but for once, I didn't.
 
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Two 64s ordered. I CONSTANTLY have to delete games off my device for new ones to keep it under 32. I'll be extremely happy to have the extra space.
 
I got 64. My 32 4S has been filled for about a month and I've been deleting stuff and I don't know if I'll be lucky enough to get an upgrade for the new iPhone next year.
 
I am. In white. Only have a couple of gb left on my current 32gb and I have loads more music I could put on.
 
Since I used my upgrade, I went for the 64gb. My 32gb iPhone 4 is pretty much maxed out because I tend to keep apps I don't need. If I cleaned things up, I could get by with 32gb... but the funny thing is, the iPhone 5 64gb still came out cheaper than what I paid for on the 1st gen iPhone 4gb on release day.
 
Ordered black 64Gb. Current iPhone 4 is 32Gb and been full for quite some time. ATT premier order. Had no problems with ordering.
 
GetSwole37 said:
Heck, some actually think 16GB is fine, but if you are one who uses the camera and does video, you know it isnt.
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It isn't? Just out of curiosity, does anyone have some real metrics here? An 8 megapixel compressed image from what I can tell is ~4 megabytes each (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). So that's well over 200 photos just for 1 gb. Are people really storing *thousands* of photos on their phones? And someone mentioned that 10gb = 1 hour roughly. Even Apple touts "The videos you shoot on iPhone 5 are 20 percent smaller in file size but retain their full-resolution quality." so it may be less. I can't imagine the average user is taking more than 1-5 minute video clips made for youtube consumption.

On my iPhone 4 I've never gone above 2gb in photos/video use myself, so I'm not terribly worried, but am curious what a similar usage would scale to. Certainly not double? I only tend to keep stuff on my device I haven't synced up elsewhere - so at most, what I would store on say a two week vacation.
 
16GB=$200 64GB=$200 more... if you don't get the 64GB, you doing something wrong with your life. $200 is nothing
 
I did. Black 64gb Verizon. Go big or go home. Gets even better with unlimited LTE speeds. :D
 
imeth said:
16GB=$200 64GB=$200 more... if you don't get the 64GB, you doing something wrong with your life. $200 is nothing
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Other than overspending on what you may need. Some will be fine with 16GB, some will be fine with 32GB and 64GB may be overkill for others.

I ordered the 64GB and it may be overkill but if I ordered the 32GB, I wouldn't think there is something wrong with my life :)
 
I went 16gb. I use Spotify on an unlimited data contract and Dropbox for photos so I don't really need space. Went 64GB for 4S.
 
Beau10 said:
It isn't? Just out of curiosity, does anyone have some real metrics here? An 8 megapixel compressed image from what I can tell is ~4 megabytes each (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). So that's well over 200 photos just for 1 gb. Are people really storing *thousands* of photos on their phones? And someone mentioned that 10gb = 1 hour roughly. Even Apple touts "The videos you shoot on iPhone 5 are 20 percent smaller in file size but retain their full-resolution quality." so it may be less. I can't imagine the average user is taking more than 1-5 minute video clips made for youtube consumption.

On my iPhone 4 I've never gone above 2gb in photos/video use myself, so I'm not terribly worried, but am curious what a similar usage would scale to. Certainly not double? I only tend to keep stuff on my device I haven't synced up elsewhere - so at most, what I would store on say a two week vacation.
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I was a hoarder!! I kept everything. from multiple retakes, to pictures that i accidently took wout knowing. video wise, i kept the ones that i accidently did when I was taking a picture and still was in video mode.

i just pulled up my backup and have 12GB woth of video and photos. I never backed up anything and would only copy the new files over from phone to computer once in a blue moon.

so, yes, if you use the phone as a temp, and constantly move pictures over..weekly or biweekly then 16GB probably is enough for you.

i think someone nailed it right.. managing your phone is key. a lot of the folks still wanting 128 just load everything and like to not worry about the space. . I am taking the same principles that I do for my computer on my next iphone.. delete and clean stuff i dont use. I am a freak about deleted bak files. temp files, log files on my computer..so need to do this more often on my phone i have decided.
 
the following only applies to those who intend to resell it, maybe:


Being on a FAN account I was able to buy/sell multiple refurbs of the 3GS, a mix of around 6 total.

The margin for me was better on the 8GB than the 16GB indicating to me that demand was greater for the 8GB (due to the lower price I'm sure).



So I picked up the 32GB i5.
 
danpass said:
the following only applies to those who intend to resell it, maybe:


Being on a FAN account I was able to buy/sell multiple refurbs of the 3GS, a mix of around 6 total.

The margin for me was better on the 8GB than the 16GB indicating to me that demand was greater for the 8GB (due to the lower price I'm sure).



So I picked up the 32GB i5.
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100% agree! if you look at my prior post in this thread.. i explain this. same goes for the 16GB compared to the 32GB 4 and 4's.
 
I have a pretty big music collection and it was always a pain to try and keep only 13GB of music on my phone so that I'd still have storage left over for pictures. However after switching to Rdio/Spotify (Used Rdio first for a few months, then Spotify when it was released and haven't looked back) I have no need for my personal library. It took me a few days to get the playlists on Spotify to where I like, but now it's great. The only downside would be that I consistently use over 3GB of data every month on 3G, so there's no telling what I'm going to consume on LTE since I'll be surfing more (If and when I get an iPhone 5). I really enjoy streaming all the music I want to listen to as opposed to keeping it local. I'm always in 3G coverage where ever I go so I don't have to worry about not having music when I'm not in decent service area.
 
Yeah people don't usually get back what they put in on 64's.

This wasn't the end all for me, 32GB is fine for my usage. But that was something else that was icing on the cake for me. Though, I'll probably hold onto my iPhone 5 for a good while.
 
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