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should I get the 8GB or 16GB 3G iPhone?

Is it worth the extra money for the 16GB..?

iMac Intel, Macbook Pro, Apple TV, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on May 12, 2009 1:38 PM

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May 12, 2009 1:43 PM in response to fwokinfwok

Hi fwokinfwok

It really depends on your opinion and you amount of music videos ect and what you want to use your iphone for.

1. do you have an ipod already (if so), do you want to listen to your music on the move on your phone as well and do you have more than 6G of music or an amount of music that will fill up the capacity of the iphone.

2. Are you going to use your iphone for just a phone, apps, or music videos and photos. if its just for a phone and the apps and the few hundred songs i would get the 8G version as your wasting money on more space that you don't need.

3. the applications don't take up that much space and i would personally only get the bigger version if your music library in constantly increasing in size, you want to listen to this music everywhere you take your phone, you have enough spare cash to buy the extra space, you want to use all of the iphones features (including videos). If thats the case i would definitely get the bigger version

Alex

May 12, 2009 1:45 PM in response to fwokinfwok

The actual capacities are 7.3 and 14.6 GB. The iPhone OS uses ~270 MB, and any apps you install add to that - I have ~1.3 GB of apps on my iPhone, and that's using only 5 of the 9 possible home screens.

Mostly, it depends on what you want to store. A 30-minute TV episode (22 minutes of footage) is ~300 MB. A full-length movie is 800 MB - 1 GB. 1000 songs is nearly 4 GB (more if they are the higher quality iTunes Plus / 256 kbps songs)

Keep in mind that you cannot add storage capacity later.

May 12, 2009 1:49 PM in response to fwokinfwok

This depends on how much music, video, and photos you want available on your iPhone at any given time.

IMO, in regards to storage capacity on a computer or with the iPhone, it is much better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. If you go with the 8GB, you won't be able to increase the storage capacity - not by Apple anyway. For "only" $100 more, you get double the storage capacity, but this depends on your budget and potential storage needs/wants.

May 12, 2009 4:17 PM in response to fwokinfwok

Just a slightly different take on the situation...

I always felt restricted with even a 16 gig iPod, but I've found 8 gigs to be plenty for my iPhone. I think it has to do with the fact that I plug my iPhone into my computer FAR more often than I ever do my iPod.

I only update my iPod when I have new music that I need to load (which, for me, isn't terribly often).

On the iPhone, I have to sync calendars and contacts pretty regularly and I have a ridiculously large bookmarks list that I also like to keep synced. It only takes me a minute to change up my music a bit since I'm already plugged in.

In addition, the flexibility of buying music directly from the iPhone means that you HAVE to plug in more often to copy this music over to iTunes. If you don't and something glitches on the iPhone, you're going to have a tough time getting that music back without paying for it a second time (ask me how I know...)

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Tim

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