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  Mac Morrison

  9 ヶ月 ago

  you can never have enough storage. end of conversation.
  yes some people don't need it
  some people don't need a lot of things - they still have them
  8 gig is easily filled with music and video
  likewise 16gig. 32/48/120 etc etc.
  
  mac
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  Mike42

  9 ヶ月 ago

  Ah, the cloud vs. the chip. Onboard or offboard.
  
  The thing is, the laws of physics (and that pesky Moore guy) will dictate, in the next decade, what is used.
  
  We've seen a bunch of services launch then slowly fade, that offer MP3 locker/cloud/whatever functionality. The truth is, to sustain a seamless 160kbps stream (the minimum for ok quality) of audio, while mobile, you need serious overhead. That overhead doesn't come cheap. Networks are not dimensioned for it, and end-to-end IP transport mechanisms are not yet wide-spread enough. Result = rubbish.
  
  What will happen much, much quicker than reliable, pervasive megabit speeds to handsets is memory card capacity. Within 3 years the *average* mobile's memory card will be circa 20GB. That's all the poxy 512MB cards given away now, becoming the equivalent of a not-too-shabby iPod. Sideloading mechanisms between handsets, PC's and stores does need a kicking along, but this is happening. DoubleTwist have invented a so-far legal way to get your AAC+ files into MP3 and on your devices, but this is a f-ugly precursor of what will be standard functionality 3 years hence.
  
  SanDisk just announced a 16GB MicroSD card - out soon. You can buy a 32GB SD card for £70 now. Pity handsets have moved to MicroSD in the meantime, but the intent is there to deliver 32GB MicroSD within the year. So that's one card for all your music, one card for movies. Sorted.
  
  Why faff around with the cloud and all its issues - when offline, in 2G or dodgy 3G, you are stuffed. Just carry it all, all the time. Watching on a big screen? Listening on a decent stereo, or in the car? Just bang the card into whatever slot's nearby. Or send via FM / Bluetooth / WiFi.
  
  Keep the cloud for real-time sync of data - Contacts, SMS, email - and the cards for heavy media.
  
  .....
  
  But I've been wildly wrong 9 times out of 10 ;-)
  
  .....
  
  
  /m
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  BarneyC

  9 ヶ月 ago

  I've filled the 8Gb on my N95, the 12Gb on my N800 and both the 2Gb cards on my E71. Would I like 16Gb - well yes but only for music.
  
  I'm with you, I'd far rather have easily and quickly accessible cloud storage.
  
  That said Asus still haven't come through on the 20Gb of cloud storage promised with my Eee 1000H yet.
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  MarkW

  9 ヶ月 ago

  I've got the Eee 1000H too, but I thought we didn't get the cloud storage cos we'd got 80GB drives.... If they're offering it though, I'll take it!
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  David Carrington

  9 ヶ月 ago

  I have a dedicated USB 150Gb hard drive, but plugging in my 4Gb phone is easier, since I always have that on me. It's not the fact that I need 4Gb for the phone itself, but that I've got 4Gb of data carrying around with me for use at various computers.
  
  Only about 500Mb on the device is actually used from the phone (Tom Tom maps and music).
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  Mark Thomas

  9 ヶ月 ago

  "Do you really need 16GB on your handset?"
  
  That's a one word answer.
  
  F*****g hell yes.
  
  Ok, three but the point is the same!
  
  Never have enough storage.
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  barneyc

  9 ヶ月 ago

  Note to self... always but micro-sd cards in future so they work in ALL my devices. Duh.
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  kluap

  9 ヶ月 ago

  I have a 16G iPhone and an N95 with 8G+2G card. For the most part, this is sufficient although:
  
  1. as I use my iPhone more in favour of my 80G iPod (with 50G of content), I can see this perhaps becoming an issue unless I can easily update my content over the air whilst away from home - especially overseas, and
  
  2. I use both handsets, especially the N95, in favour of memory stick - lack of storage used to be an issue when "cloud services" weren't available and enterprise security policies made up/ down loading files neigh on impossible
  
  I think to answer your question, for geeks etc. you can never have enough storage space :-)
  
  For normobs, there will come a point where the amount of storage is irrelevant (if indeed it ever was). I'm sure this will parallel the pc world - when I had a 20G drive, I was always thinking disk space; now I have 750G, I don't pay much attention to how much of it is free! IMHO, for a phone with camera, music and video 40G will be as much as is needed.
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  JamesBurland

  9 ヶ月 ago

  My current ideal is about 64GB. iTunes Genius playlists have turned me from being satisfied with about 30% of my music on my iPhone to wanting it ALL on there!
  
  The other factor is the App Store, I now have just over 2GB of app data on my phone, surely this will be 4GB by the end of the year?
  
  So yeah, you can never have enough onboard memory. That or a stupidly fast cloud connection! ^_^
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  Eric in Cupertino

  9 ヶ月 ago

  If I did not have two Cowon devices with me every day I would fill my E51's 8GB easily. Currently I have one or two lossless albums, music sync'ed via Nokia Multimedia Transfer and a couple Divx encoded DVDs on the card. I'm hovering around 4GB. Possibly if my generic A2DP headset did not sound so terrible I'd retire my standalone devices. Lets see if that ugly little tube changes my behavior.
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  James Whatley

  9 ヶ月 ago

  Memory, like the old 'roads and bookshelves' analogy, will always fill up.
  
  The more you give me, the more data I'll carry. Simple fact. I will never be able to carry enough music, enough video or enough pictures.
  
  Include in that space to create video/images/music etc... and you get the idea.
  The dude is wrong.
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  Darren E

  9 ヶ月 ago

  Hey Ewan...interesting quote about "I'm all about the cloud" ... great anti-cloud argument here.
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/2...
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