How much memory do you need in an iPhone

Michael S

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Arable Farmer
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Matching Green
Two family members can't resist being "i"similated and I was wondering how much RAM you really need on an iPhone? The 6 seems to come in 16, 64 and 128GB flavours, the 5S is available in 16 and 32GB. Is the 16 enough if you don't fill it with music and films or if it shares an iCloud account with an existing iPad will it get loaded with stuff from there?

Having never sucumbed to iAnything I'm not sure how insestious all these machines are? It's not that I'm a technophobe, I'm very happy with both Android and Windows devices, I just don't get the Apple thing. My windows phone has filled 11GB in about 16 months so wondering whether 16GB is enough.

Michael
 

Kidds

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Horticulture
16 is plenty for me.
You can fill it up with photos, music and videos but why you would want to store thousands of pictures on your phone I don't know.

ps It isn't RAM, it is storage.
 

Michael S

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Matching Green
I phone has more need of a decent battery than memory, mine turns itself off when it's cold as well and won't turn on again til it's been in my chest pocket a while to heat up

That is why I have decided to go for an Xperia Z3 Compact, my Lumia 920 has taught me that being flash is fine, but a long battery life is really useful on those 18 hour harvest days. To be fair to those wanting iPhones it is because they are familiar with iOS from iPad so hopefully there will be less demand on my time explaining how to work the things!

Michael
 

Kidds

Member
Horticulture
On those 18 hour harvest days, are you not driving a tractor?
Doesn't that tractor (or combine) have a lighter socket to plug a charger?

My iPhone lasts me all day, sometimes pushes it a bit if in a poor signal area and it uses loads trying to find a signal. I play music on mine most of the day when I am in the field without a problem.
Rarely in the field more than 9 hours but I am in the field not in a tractor.
They are not the be all and end all but I like mine.
 

PSQ

Member
Arable Farmer
Just checked my 64gb '5': 2.5gb available.
1303 songs.
5286 photos.
132 apps, including all the TomTom maps for western europe.
Wouldn't swap it for a 'like an iPhone' either.
 

Michael S

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Matching Green
On those 18 hour harvest days, are you not driving a tractor?
Doesn't that tractor (or combine) have a lighter socket to plug a charger?

My iPhone lasts me all day, sometimes pushes it a bit if in a poor signal area and it uses loads trying to find a signal. I play music on mine most of the day when I am in the field without a problem.
Rarely in the field more than 9 hours but I am in the field not in a tractor.
They are not the be all and end all but I like mine.

On those particular days I'm usually stuck on our Matbro that has no power outlet or everything else for 5 minutes at a time. In fairness it is only a few days of the year when we have started wheat harvest but still fiddling about with bales.Once autumn tillage is under way sitting in the same tractor all day it is never a problem.

Michael
 

Cowabunga

Member
Location
Ceredigion,Wales
High definition pictures are what fills these things up. Magazines too. Trick is to not store too much of that kind of stuff. Having said that, 16gig is getting to be on the small side for some people. Unfortunately Apple sting you terribly for extra storage where some Androids have micro SD card expansion facility where you can store all the bulky files relatively cheaply.

I'm using a Nokia 820 W8.1 phone just for fun at the moment. My main phone is an iPhone 4S 16Gig which I think has about 3.5gig free. If I were to store more photos and music on it, plus a dozen good magazines like 'Stuff' interactive, it would fill up very quickly.
When I come to changing the iPhone, it will certainly be for something with a bigger screen, which would make reading magazines more practical, which in turn means that I would certainly need more storage.
Perhaps I'll stay with the 4.5" screen Nokia for a while. After all the whining my two women made about it, I expected not to like it, but the more I use it the more I like it. Trouble is, even though it now works nicely and has just had Cortana added, I don't think there are the magazines and things available for Windows Phone 8.1. I'll just have to play some more. After having it for over 18 months, only now is the Windows Phone Lumia coming living up to its promise.

In answer to the OP, if you want to store shed-loads of stuff on the phone, and I do mean shedloads, get a 32gig iPhone, but to make use of it you also need the bigger screen version in my opinion.
 

i7builder

Member
RAM & Memory are two totally separate bits of kit on a device, one works like this, the RAM is based around the more of it you have the less "Bottleneck affect" your device/pc has so the faster it can process information and thats important, Storage is the volume of photos/music/apps/videos you can store/files! but it doesnt make any difference UNTIL the storage is almost full or above 80% it then has to index more and slows the device down and thats when you need to back up some things, did you get sorted?
 

Robigus

Member
You need a tiny memory with an iPhone or you will constantly remember that you are a fashion victim and should have bought a Galaxy:whistle:
 

Lofty1984

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
South wales
And another thing just because you buy a 16/32 gb ect dont expect to have all that storage at your disposal because they use a fair bit for all the software so you dont get a "true" amount of storage! Its fine if you have an i pad too as you can just icloud most stuff onto that
 

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