Probably as a result of the presentation of what we consider the main rival of the iPhone in the market, the Samsung Galaxy S range in this case of the new Galaxy S5, many of us ask ourselves the question that I pose today in this article Actualidad iPhone: Is 16 GB of storage memory enough for iPhone? For the readers who are not up to date on the launches of the competition, I comment that the controversy comes from the scarce storage memory available to the user in the case of the latest Korean terminal. I remind you that of the 16GB with which it comes standard, less than 8GB is left for the user after the installations that come with the system.
Although the iPhone case is substantially different, because Apple's applications and operating system occupy less, leaving the 16GB model in just over 12GB available for the user in the case of the new iPhone 5s, storage memory figures do not seem adjusted to the reality of the current needs of users. And precisely below I will explain to you with practical examples the reasons why I believe that Cupertino should be thinking about the retirement of that size as it already did at the time with the 8GB.
Clearly, memory storage has advanced over the years. In fact, we have more and more capacity taking up less space. However, it is also true that as we have been able to develop memories that are smaller in size and larger in content capacity, files, applications and resources that we use daily have also grown in size. And all this is noticeable in daily use, leaving the older devices somewhat outdated in their lower gig versions.
Capacity too low for the general public
Today, to get an idea, an iOS user who wants to have the latest racing video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas needs a whopping 1,63GB for that application alone. For someone who loves video content, an HD movie can take up 5GB of storage memory. Not to mention those who declare themselves lovers of photography and who intend to use their iPhone as a compact camera. The 12 GB of available memory for the user with the iphone 16GB model they are really scarce.
Retirement of 8GB of storage memory
Obviously there will be users who give their phones a much more basic use, with a few applications that do not require large resources or need large storage spaces that conform to the current iPhone offering. However, as has happened in the past in the case of the iPhone 4s, which was the last terminal that Apple offered in the basic 8GB version. From it, and with the arrival of the iPhone 5, the scenario was changed and that storage memory format was no longer used, becoming the most basic 16GB version.
And seeing how the uses have changed, and what the digital content, applications and many programs downloaded by all kinds of users occupy, perhaps with the launch of the iPhone 6 the time has come to retire the 16GB iPhone and offer it as a base version the 32GB that is currently marketed as the middle range in terms of storage memory as a feature. What do you think? ¿The 16Gb offered by iPhone 5s are enough in your case or do you need more?
Not at all, 16GB is very slim. Unless you are a basic user. With 32GB I am seeing how to ration them, therefore the camera of the 5s (still maintaining the 8mp) creates very heavy videos and the bursts take up a lot. Apart from this, I love my iphone because it is my iPod, I have all my music and there is another big piece of memory. If you add to that that I love having iPhoto and iMovie available (between the two they have a little more than 1GB), I'm already serious! until recently I removed the iWork suite because it was taking away at least 2GB of memory and not using it much.
I think that a user who seeks to EXHAUST the capabilities of the iPhone: use it as an iPod, as a camera at all times (bursts, videos in slowmo), keep your photo library, have Apple apps (which I consider the heaviest), games (I'm not a gamer but I understand that they weigh a lot) or have your movies on the phone ... It is much more advisable to opt for 64GB. Most of all because the new features of the 5s demand a lot of storage space.
I have many gigabytes of music, photos and applications and I still have more than 16 gigabytes left over, I don't think it is useful to have more than 20 games or apps installed if I don't use more than 5. As for photos, the cloud is there for something, so as not to take up storage space on the mobile.
In addition, the more storage, the more the apps will occupy and the more need to save files. The gigs that the applications occupy should be reduced instead of increasing capacity more and more, in the end we will end up with mobiles with TB of capacity
Well, I have a 5 GB iPhone 16, and I have 6 GB left over, and I have a lot of app that I never use. Second… GTA San Andreas, racing game? You have to be a little more gamer Cristina hehe, a kiss
Well no, they should retire the 16GB and put a microSD socket ...
Without a doubt they should put a slot for a microSD card, the perfect combination would be 32gb plus 64gb with the external card. I do not understand how this option is not incorporated, they only force us to pay more, this type of restrictions should be prohibited
I am happy with 16gb in my 5s, but in my case, I take a lot of photographs that I have to download right away to my computer, if not, I easily get a scant 4gb at all.
I do not agree with the criteria of putting a storage by sd memory, I am sick of seeing people with Samsung phones that have problems with reading the cards, and it will also be faster to work with the internal memory of the iphone and that it is out of 32gb.
I have always had 64 GB or 32 GB and it came that in the end I had more than enough.
If you are to have heavy apps like games and accumulate thousands of photos, obviously 16 GB is not enough.
The 5s I bought it in 16 GB because I saw that I was going to have enough and I synchronize my photos with Dropbox or Icloud.
What I don't want to see is a sd on an Iphone. As Mario says, in many cases they are sources of problems.
I have several Android's and only once did I buy an SD and sell it together with the phone.
Of course, the Ipad if I try to take the maximum.
As a student, I feel that applications like dropbox, box and google drive do all that work from memory, I have about 80 apps on my iPhone that I use and I still have 6GB free to do anything.
I will tell you a bit about what I do, for me that I have been an iPhone user for 3 years now, obviously I accumulated a more than decent number of apps for the most common uses, I have a 16gb iPhone and I have been able to take advantage of it using iTunes Match, so I don't take up too much space on the phone with music, I also have to say that thanks to this service I have all my music available in one way or another and that if it weren't for Match I wouldn't have it even on a 32Gb device. it is more or less that amount of gigs that I have of music. On the other hand, the photos are the ones that occupy a good part of my memory, for this I use the dropbox where I upload the photos at night and then delete all the ones I don't need. This way my photos don't take up too much space. I am not a user who plays a lot, or at least not very sophisticated games, I am not a fan of watching movies on the iPhone. And this is how a 16gb device has been customized for me, at this moment I still have 4gb available for anything.
16Gb is NOTHING !!! The Galaxy5 has a microSD slot that can greatly expand the storage capacity. Those days SanDisk has released a new microSD model with a capacity of 128Gb!
Well, that depends on the use that one gives it, for example I have the 16GB model and right now I have 6GB to spare, and I have saved my music, photos, apps and games (like 2 games of almost 1GB each), but For example, I have a friend who has 64 and it falls short, although I always consider that he keeps a lot of garbage because he has thousands of songs that he does not listen to, like movies and videos that he does not see, more applications and games, a total disorder , but as I said at the beginning, it is user dependent. For me 16 is perfect, but I think that perhaps the standard should be 32, so it satisfies a greater number of users at least.
Let's see, let's not be ... ... if the 16gb is the one that sells the most, it is because it is the cheapest, how will it be the same to have 64 than 16, you would see as if people could choose regardless of the money, what is it? They were not going to take the 64. Also with so much content in full hd, photos with more resolution each time, but everything that we already had, the 16 are necessarily short, so no one comes to justify their choice with the 16 because The only answer is that the money did not give him more (the 16 is expensive already) I play whatever I say on the internet I change my 64 iphone for another 16 bareback because it is a lot of capacity for me and I'm sure I have no shortage of boyfriends for the change, including some of those who say "16 is enough for me"
I have 38 applications among which there is a bit of everything including two games, I have 2850 photos that occupy 2,3 GB and of songs I have 300 synchronized in Deezer that are the ones I listen to the most and do not occupy more than 1 GB, I synchronize the videos to dropbox to eliminate them, since I am not a person to use my iphone 5 as an audiovisual medium, I do not have movies like this, 5,6 GB of my 16 GB are left free and that I have a jailbreak with 92 tweaks without counting the others that are installed others. I think it is a matter of being aware of what one needs, that is not that I will reject a 32 gb if they give it to me.
The truth is, yes, I have the 5 Gb iphone 32s and I'm short ... I only have 1 GB available, they should launch the iphone 6 with a 128 GB model and as a basic version the 32 GB one.
Only in photos I use 8 GB and in movies 6 GB more and in apps the rest
6GB of movies ????????? do you see them every day? I put on series chapters and delete them when I have already seen them, I don't see any point in storing so much on my mobile if you are not going to use it. Normal that you run out of space. and (GB of photos, this dropbox and such to be able to have it in the cloud without needing to occupy gigabytes if you lack space at some point
well, I'm new and I'm thinking of buying an iphone.5s… but after seeing so many things they say…. asked them…. Which one did I buy?
Well, in the case of the memory of an iPhone of only 16 GB, it is too short for me to use my iPhone to the maximum, this happens when I had a terminal, it was an iPhone 5 of 16, what happened was that this device stored only 4 heavy games, 50 musics and 400 photos, and no more, it's somewhat cumbersome at the time of taking or downloading, it is obvious that it tells me that I have to delete some files, for my user it makes me uncomfortable to delete my favorite apps that I have and I continue Having more than not knowing I can put it more memory is somewhat scarce, the truth is, I recommend that I use one of 64 GB that I currently have and I have also been changing to the 128 GB of the new terminal that also had storage problems, the problems are demaciads apps ace that the computer restarts I only have doubts about acquiring the 138 gb that say greetings
I've been using 16Gb iPhones for three years. This year I got a 6+ 16+, I regretted it and it made me want to upgrade to a 64GB one. But now after reading your comments, I feel better. I think it is a matter of being rational and that you can live well with a 16 Gb.
I have an iphone I have d music1gb I do not have muxas app and games and I only have 2gb available that I must to find calls other gb
Hello. But how many GB can I use on my I Phone 5?
I have been tempted to try iPhone but the micro SD option is not available and many things are property such as the cable causes me rejection .. it is very typical of the mother company .. charging for everything .. but when I saw that a friend pays iPhone every month one euro to have 20GB in the cloud and it seemed like a total abuse. And it is the 6 that I see here that at least it brings 16 but if as I read the last one it weighs almost half ... they should put me. external .. that that they fail will be like everything .. some that goes wrong from the factory. I have had several Android brands and they have never failed. And it is that any mid-range already comes out with 16+ cards of up to 64,128 and I think that there are already 256 is a luxury .. plus the cloud with free drive or dropbox. I d charge for the cloud seems very abusive. Those things, especially the memory capacity, is what in the end I got another good Android ... and for tastes ... you know ... but I wanted to try to see that it was so different but in those conditions as restrictive as it was not. perhaps in the future they will change something ... but it is a company that wants to make the most of its popularity but it is necessary to look a little mad for the IMO user.