How much storage do you have on your microSD card?

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.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

87 Responses

  1. Avatar for badz badz says:

    Internal 16gb
    External 4gb only.but planningto buy 64gb.does anyone knows where i can buy aside from net?

  2. Avatar for ztefanzzz ztefanzzz says:

    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

  3. Avatar for rain rain says:

    “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.

  4. Avatar for Jay Luis Jay Luis says:

    Internal: 8GB
    External: 16GB

  5. Avatar for junsymed junsymed says:

    Samsung Focus
    Internal: 8GB
    External: 32GB

    di ko sya mapuno puno

  6. Avatar for RoM_aDiK RoM_aDiK says:

    Samsung Galaxy S II
    Internal: 16 GB
    External: 32 GB (P1900 Transcend class 4)

    Full of movies and musics…

  7. Avatar for rjignacio rjignacio says:

    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)

  8. Avatar for abubu abubu says:

    internal – 200mb
    external 8gb

  9. Avatar for Jomar Jomar says:

    LG P500
    16 GB

    Alcatel 918N
    2GB (will upgrade to 8gb)

  10. Avatar for rocketlog rocketlog says:

    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!

  11. Avatar for alloneaian 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.

    • Avatar for Papapau Papapau says:

      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!

  12. Avatar for daniel daniel says:

    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…

  13. Avatar for Soul Annihilator Soul Annihilator 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.

  14. Avatar for itachi1 itachi1 says:

    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.

    • Avatar for Papapau Papapau says:

      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..

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