How much can 8GB hold?

Well I bought the iPhone on the first weekend, found out it wouldn't activate or work with my Vista 64bit OS (came installed with my HP laptop), so I took the phone back for a full refund (thanks Apple - no restocking fee).

So while I'm waiting for the fix for us 64bit OS users, I've created two playlists for the iPhone - one being music videos (1.24GB), and the other just a standard music playlist (5.89GB), for a combined total of 7.13GB.

So if I then add in my contacts from Outlook 2007 there are 326 full entries. Not sure how much memory this takes, but can't be too much, since it's just text.

I'm wondering if all of this will fit in the 8GB phone, or if I should start pairing down my playlist now. And I haven't even thought about images for that matter.

Of course I'm hoping for the fix for this soon, so I can go back out and buy (and activate) the iPhone. I also suspect that come October there will be a 16GB version available too - that would be nice.

What has been the memory experience of other out there? And does album art take up more memory than what iTunes shows in the playlist?

HP Pavilion Laptop DV9500t, Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz (Santa Rosa chipset), 4GB, Windows Vista, Ultimate 64bit

Posted on Jul 18, 2007 7:40 AM

19 replies

Kyn Drake

Level 7

21,597 points

Jul 18, 2007 11:30 AM in response to Iphoney

"how inexpensive would it have been to toss 1 - 1.5gb more memory in the device"

Even if it's one penny, that's one penny times millions of devices... it adds up.

"Apple set the precedent with the Ipod."

The precedent was set by other music players that came out before the iPod. The same is true with the other phones that came out before the iPhone. Apple's great, but they weren't first in either of those markets.

Kyn Drake

Level 7

21,597 points

Jul 18, 2007 11:34 AM in response to SCW-Greg

I understand what you mean, it's just that if those features were the key to a runaway success, we'd have seen it before the iPhone came along.

rikinva

Level 1

6 points

Jul 18, 2007 12:53 PM in response to SCW-Greg

My 8gb phone is loaded full for a business trip I am currently on -- I have almost 1300 songs loaded from iTunes, about 115 JPG photos in 10 albums, and 4 full-length feature films transferred (at 480x320 resolution) from DVDs using iTunes. The movies take up almost half the space, with the music taking up the other half. The photos don't use much space at all -- showing only a small sliver on the syncing scale.

Rick

Randy Fast

Level 4

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Jul 18, 2007 12:53 PM in response to Iphoney

it is not just the iphone that suffers loss of space for the system OS. Pretty much every device is like this. On my xbox 360 about 6gb is taken up with system stuff when you clear everything off the HDD. The ipod has some of its space taken up with system stuff as well.

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How much can 8GB hold?