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I've been holding off on purchasing a new phone. I'm still holding on to my old but trusty 64GB iPhone 6 Plus. It's a little over 4 yrs old. I'm finally ready to upgrade to the new iPhone Xs. I haven't decided on whether to get the Xs or Xs Max yet. However I'm leaning towards the bigger one as I am use to having the iPhone 6 Plus.

The difficult part is choosing the size. I know I definitely want either at least a 256GB. My previous 64gb is decent, but when traveling I notice that I'm reaching close to the limit since I like to take a lot of pics and film video. I don't have an outrageously large music library or anything so I think the 256GB should be plenty and more than enough. That's 4x the space of the 64GB that I currently have. I plan on keeping this phone for as long as possible. Perhaps around 4-5 years. 512GB sounds like overkill to me. What do you guys think?
 
You will not keep this phone for over 4 or 5 years. 5G is coming in 1 or 2 years and then will be a very good time to upgrade the mobile phone.
 
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You will not keep this phone for over 4 or 5 years. 5G is coming in 1 or 2 years and then will be a very good time to upgrade the mobile phone.
Apple doesn’t adopt that stuff eary though...wait a year after it’s widespread for Apple to adopt 5G.
 
You will not keep this phone for over 4 or 5 years. 5G is coming in 1 or 2 years and then will be a very good time to upgrade the mobile phone.

5G is very bad... do you want cancer from all that radiation?
 
In my personal use, 128 is the perfect size but that isn’t offered. Because of that, I’ll go with 256.
 
256. Usually I jump at the chance to get the max amount of storage Apple offers on a new device (they were stingy for so long). But 256 has been sufficient for me-- I'd go 512 but can't really convince myself to spend $1650 on a phone (1450 + 200 for Applecare as I'm a current iUP customer). I do want the Max so I am seeing a slight increase in my monthly payment... maybe I'd consider it if I preferred the 5.8" size screen.

I'm looking instead to get an iPad Pro w/ 512gb at some point since that seems to be the device I load with movies for trips and such.

(Any way to add a poll to the OP? I'd be interested in seeing the breakdown there.)
 
128 would have been fine but have been at 256 with plenty of elbow room all year
 
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