When reviewing handsets, a lot of times we focus on storage as a major deal breaker. To some extent it’s important and on occasion, it may have turned off a lot of people from actually buying a smartphone because of the lack of storage capacity.
Of course, there will be isolated cases. The 16GB iPhone is still the most popular variant of the iPhone line (it’s usually the first one to run out of stocks).
The same cannot be said of other handsets though — especially all the Windows Phone 7 smartphones that do not support external storage.
Based on observations though, I think the tolerable amount of internal storage for a handset would be in the vicinity of 8GB to 16GB. That’s assuming there’s absolutely no option to expand the internal memory.
I’d like to test this theory and do a little poll.
Can you folks check your smartphone and see what’s the capacity of the microSD card you are using with it?
Please let us know what’s the internal/built-in storage your phone has and what’s the size of the microSD card you used with it.
Here’s mine: Internal – 16GB; microSD – 8GB.
I’m just very curious if people really buy high-capacity microSD cards for their phones (like 16GB to 32GB). By the way, I was surprised to see that a 32GB KingMax microSD card (Class 4) sells for only Php1,880 at CDR-King.
internal: 16gb
microsd: 32gb
dahil sa microsd, punong-puno ng movies ang phone ko, it’s like having a big time media player.
Main phone:
Internal: 16 gb
External: 4gb
Extra phone:
Internal: 200 mb
External: 2gb
Both Samsung Galaxy
Twitter: roiji
says:
Internal: n/a
External: 16GB
I bought a 32GB Class 10 card from eBay (HK) auction.
It went permanently corrupted when once I had pulled it when copying files. Cost me Php1.8k for such stupidity.
For phones, I don’t really mind the internal storage.
For tablets, I want to get the larger variant as much as possible.
internal: 1gb
External: 32gb
Guys san kau nakabili ng 64gb micro sd? nghahanap ako sa mga malls pero so far 32gb lang pinakamalaki na nkita ko. . . how much did it cost you?
Internal: 4gb user available 1.2gb
SD Card Out of the Box: 8gb
SD Card that Im using now: 32gb (22gb is currently in use.)
recently bought a 16GB for my Galaxy Tab P6800, coz 8GB won’t suffice for my downloaded movies.
Also, would like to share you that I saw a Transcend 32GB micro SD on Office Warehouse which only costs PhP1660.
Model: Droid RAZR (Feel like saying droid. ^^)
Internal: 16GB
SD: 32GB
Not using laptops anymore.. ^^
Game of thrones, big bang, himym, modern family, movies! Movies! Movies!
all via TORRENT downloads on my device. Boom!
But for casual users, 16gb Internal with ni SD would still do..
Hi how can you download direct torrent from your droid? Ive tried yet its no sucsess can you teach me where and how? Thanks
download mo lang ttorent free or sa playstore pre. Then open any torrent files you’ve already downloaded at it can also search Torrents.
Hope it helped..
Add ko lang.
Box.net:50gb for my titanuim backup files
Dropbox:15GB for my auto upload pics
Gdrive: 5gb. La pa ko pag gagamitan.
Twitter: alloneaian
says:
this is DOPE!!
i mean fuck!
i mean cool! lolz
Salamat pre. Works great ignoring my loptop lol
Got a 9900. Internal – 8GB microSD – 4GB
Twitter: jcinwinupd8
says:
Internal: 8GB
External: n/a (using 25GB cloud storage via SkyDrive)
Unit: Nokia Lumia 710
Twitter: zer0ice
says:
Internal – 16GB
microSD – 8GB
Galaxy S II
Internal – 16GB
External – 16GB
Unit – Samsung Galaxy S II
… and bitin pa ako sa dami ng Torrent downloads ko… divided between both storage devices. Planning a 32GB soon pero siguro I’ll go past Class 4 to get decent read/write speed.
I’ve been down to that road before..
Thought hindi sulit 32gb now since Class4..
But I tested my 32GB and it is a LOT FASTER than my 8GB Class 10, previously owned, microsd.. i have my screenshots with me as proof. (Optimum Cache Size is 1024 for 32GB class 10, 2048 for 8gb class 10)
Don’t know why yet, i’ll try googling later..
So buy now. Use “SD Tools” from play store for quick test before buying..
Twitter: soulannihilator
says:
I believe 16 GB is the sweet spot for your microSD card. Di sapat yung 8 GB, mp3 pa lang 6 GB na sa akin, di pa ako naglalagay ng movie nun.
Xperia Neo
320mb – internal
8gb – external
– grabe puro Movies at Naruto Shippuden daig pa ang SM Cinema lol. kulang talaga… no music ako. pure video at games… gusto ko mga 16gb or 32gb…
Twitter: alloneaian
says:
would not really buy a 32gb sd card and store important files that can easily get corrupted. 8gb is fair enough though i’m a heavy file junkie i often move files around in the cloud and in my pc.
I assume you were assuming..
I haven’t experienced any file corruption with my 32GB. I maxed out and freed it lots of times na.
I am also big with important files so i think in case na totoo sinasabi mo eh ako kaunaunahang magwawala siguro..
At I think if you were correct, isusugal ba ng Transcend, etc ang business nila?
I assume you also mentioned that statement of yours last 2006.. It probably went like this..
“would not really buy a 1gb sd card and store important files that can easily get corrupted. 512MB is fair enough” ^^
Peace!
Internal: Practically wala, kasi yung 8GB nya for apps only
External: 16GB
No complaints, except when I’m in the mood for a phone movie marathon. LOL!
Twitter: jomarx2
says:
LG P500
16 GB
Alcatel 918N
2GB (will upgrade to 8gb)
internal – 200mb
external 8gb
stock:
internal: 500MB/64MB usable
external: 8GB
after some tweaking:
internal: 500MB+1GB = 1GB usable
external: 7GB
nagpartition ako ng external SD card ng 1GB tapos nimount ko yung system sa new partition na yun..hirap kasi kapag naubos yung internal storage eh..
the only thing is when transferring files to your SD, you can’t mount the SD card through USB, since magcrash yung system ng cp, so via network shares/smb ung pagtransfer (less hassle, less cables hehehe)
Samsung Galaxy S II
Internal: 16 GB
External: 32 GB (P1900 Transcend class 4)
Full of movies and musics…
Samsung Focus
Internal: 8GB
External: 32GB
di ko sya mapuno puno
Twitter: jayprietornemt
says:
Internal: 8GB
External: 16GB
“I was surprised to see that a 32GB KingMax microSD card (Class 4) sells for only Php1,880 at CDR-King.”
speaking from personal experience, i know that cdr-king is not above selling fake items. i think it’s safe to consider any item considerably marked down from its regular price elsewhere as not the real mccoy.
1.4k lang max price nyan dapat. selling for lower mostly.
Samsung galaxy s2 note
Internal: 200mb
External: 56mb :’(
Guys pa help nman. Bbli ako ng mic. Sd. Anu kaya maganda
16gb oh 32gb? Price dont really matter to me.
Sabi ksi ng friend ko mabagal daw ung 32gb at prone daw na macorrupt
Internal 16gb
External 4gb only.but planningto buy 64gb.does anyone knows where i can buy aside from net?