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Which capacity are you getting?: 16 or 32gb?

Which capacity are you getting?

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dawkplex

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I'm looking to get this phone for vzw, but not sure which capacity to order. 50 bucks for 16 gb is pretty expensive in this market. Especially when you consider that 32gb's are going for ~$30, and the s3 can take a 64gb sdxc card. What size are you guys getting and why?
 
definitely would get the 16gb. I just don't see a need for 32gb when micro sd cards are so cheap. I'd even wait to get one until you have actually filled up the 16GB.
 
dawkplex said:
I'm looking to get this phone for vzw, but not sure which capacity to order. 50 bucks for 16 gb is pretty expensive in this market. Especially when you consider that 32gb's are going for ~$30, and the s3 can take a 64gb sdxc card. What size are you guys getting and why?
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I'm getting the 16gb....the $50 for additional 16gb onboard, and the $40 16gb microSD card offered in store are both rip-off's. I'd pay $70 for a SanDisk mobile Ultra 64gb microSD card before I paid $50 for 16gb more internal storage.

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I want to order the 32gb because my Evo has an sd card but in order for the phone to behave properly I heard it needs atleast 50 mb internal store left before it starts lagging and force closing... On my evo everything is on the sd card...but for some reason internal storege is to its highest capacity ...

which is the reason im buying the phone from the people who made my fridge!
 
32gb, then I can leave for now the 16 in my DX and let the kid play with it. I can get a 64gb later, and if needed supposedly a 128 later after the end of the year if I need more space.
 
32gb internal with a 64gb card. I can store all of my music and finally avoid streaming from cloud services. Plus I plan to get the hub for viewing on tv's so I'll store all my videos and pictures too.
 
I will get the 32gb and use a 64gb micro sd. I do not like relying on cloud data, since only works if you have good data coverage. That is not always the case for me and travel a lot, so prefer local data in spite of having unlimited data (for now).

Clouds and 2GB data caps are an absolute farce. Let me get this straight, I watch a couple of my OWN movies or listen to some streaming tunes and then have to pay more money?? Pure stupid and I expect this to be a big consumer class action some time down the road. Discretionary income for most is not excatly increasing.
 
I'd ideally want the 32 gig, but ATT hasn't announced it. I'm still wondering why they announced a 64 gig version and none have been released anywhere.
 
16gb version here. I have a 32gb sd card, and I do not use my phone enough for music or anything else, when google play music, and services such as pandora exist. Paying an extra $50 is outrageous for an extra 16gb of space.
 
Going to get the 32GB and use my 32GB Samsung Micro SD for backing up my phone. I use MyBackup Pro. If the world ends, I can simply put everything back on the phone. I don't anticipate going over 32GB for quite a while.
 
rushmore said:
I will get the 32gb and use a 64gb micro sd. I do not like relying on cloud data, since only works if you have good data coverage. That is not always the case for me and travel a lot, so prefer local data in spite of having unlimited data (for now).

Clouds and 2GB data caps are an absolute farce. Let me get this straight, I watch a couple of my OWN movies or listen to some streaming tunes and then have to pay more money?? Pure stupid and I expect this to be a big consumer class action some time down the road. Discretionary income for most is not excatly increasing.
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Really? Please explain your reasoning because I can't see it. You think that there will be a class action lawsuit over having to pay someone money to host your files and transfer them to you?

If you want to move your stuff to a storage unit, house it, and then move it back you have to pay someone for those services. If you want to avoid it, just do as you said and buy some extra storage. In keeping with the analogy, buy a storage unit for your backyard.

There is nothing wrong with cloud services or data caps. Bandwidth and hard drive space are real things that cost companies money and we are paying for that service. If you don't want to pay for it, don't use it.
 
I don't need a lot of storage so I'm going to get a 16gb unless only the 32gb is available when it's time to purchase.
 
I hear all those going 16gb using the cloud storage as a reason to they can go 16, but with Verizon and others pushing tiered I feel it is better to get away from anything that will use data.
 
I'm "thinking" 32gb. I heard internal memory is faster than writing/reading an SD, even XC. Maybe someone can confirm.
 
32 gig + 64 gig sd + drop box + google drive = awesome. My thing is the way ics doesn't allow to save to the actual sd card...not phone storage, but the sd card. That is one of the reasons I returned the LTEvo (besides other problems). I would rather have the extra space and not use it, than not have the space when needed.

Music and pics on the sd card and everything else on the phone.
 
zachavm said:
Really? Please explain your reasoning because I can't see it. You think that there will be a class action lawsuit over having to pay someone money to host your files and transfer them to you?

If you want to move your stuff to a storage unit, house it, and then move it back you have to pay someone for those services. If you want to avoid it, just do as you said and buy some extra storage. In keeping with the analogy, buy a storage unit for your backyard.

There is nothing wrong with cloud services or data caps. Bandwidth and hard drive space are real things that cost companies money and we are paying for that service. If you don't want to pay for it, don't use it.
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I am referring exclusively to data caps based on antiquated data from an consumer install base of mainly 2g/Edge data users. This low usage weighted the aggregate data in a very biased and self serving manner.

Pushing cloud storage and hd content with 4G and 2GB caps is asinine for the consumer.

This is ironic perspective for me, considering I follow classic rather than neo economic principles.

BTW, your incredulity and response fits what "my" company's marketing team would say ;)

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2GB caps + cloud + 4G + streaming video content = nuts

Kudos to Samsung for good storage and a micro slot. :)
 
32Gb here. Mainly for the camera. I took a 26 sec 1080 video with the HTC One X in an AT&T store and it was 31.2Mb in size. An 8Mp image is around 3Mb. Nuff said. Yes, I know you can save to the SD card, but SD card isn't as fast on saving and playback as internal memory (usually).
 
If it gets good reviews with signal(no nexus weak radio issues ) ill get 16. I have plenty of SD cards no need to pay extra 50 when you can add a card for half price
 
+1, doit2it

I went with the 32. Main reason being for video recording. I've found that video gets kind of choppy when writing to the SD card at 720 or 1080 resolution, even on my very fast Epic 4G Touch. Never saw this happen when saving to the internal memory.
 
Going w/ the 16gb & will keep the 32gb card that came w/ my DROID Charge.
 
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