About to buy iPhone...please help...

[Emani]

Hi- New here and about to buy the iphone. I really need to understand how much space I'll need and am having trouble gauging (see below) the choice between 8g vs 16 g. I know that bigger is probably always better but I feel like I might not fill the 8g.

I probably only have 100 (or so) songs so I'm not a big music user. Apps don't seem to be that large. Movies and photos are probably the space fillers but those can be temporary.

What do you recommend? What am I missing? Is 8g enough? What fills your iPhone?

Thanks for any comments (and other suggestions as well).

E


Example
200 music files - 600 mb (3mb/ea)
50 apps - 150 mb (3mb/ea - some larger-some smaller)
100 photos - 1.5gb(150mb/ea)
Coverart 500mb
Movies 2gb (??)
Contact info 500mb (??)
Misc
recorded notes, saved
files, etc. 1gb (??)

TOTAL: 5.250gb

[hardcle]

Unless the extra $100 is going to cause a hardship, get the 16GB. On a $/GB basis, the 16 GB is a much better deal. You're going to have this for at least two years. There's no way of knowing what music, videos, and apps you're going to have by then so it's better to have the space and not need it than to need the space and not have it.

[zardoz66]

Get the 16GB and dont look back, a lot of people I know always tell me they wish they got the 16GB

[Galley]

100 photos won't take up anywhere near that much space. Contacts should only be a few MB. The entire Bible is only a few MB.
As an example, my 8GB iPhone has 186 lossless audio tracks (5+ GB), 5 video podcasts, 918 photos, about 50 apps, and there's still 400MB free. With that being said, you're still better off getting the 16 gigger.

[mutantblack]

I have 80 applications which took 1gb and more. Songs, videos, ebooks, pics which took 8gbs. Themes and wallpapers which took 700mb, so you do the math. Like everybody else said, go wtih 16gb, only 100 bucks difference and who knows, your music and videos library will be growing in the future for those free space.

[Emani]

Thanks for the comments. I took the advice and got the 16gb version last night. I'm really liking this so far! It truly is a great piece of tech.

As I read, I am disappointed with the battery life. Other than that, I have no complaints (ok, eventually I'll probably complain re: lack of mms-for now, I'm ok).

Thanks all,
E

[zardoz66]

take in count that your usage is going to be very high a first and battery is going to be used fast. but as the newness wares down you will find that battery becomes less of a problem. the first fue days I would dran it in just hours, but I was also using the crap out out of it. now I find that I am charging about every 2 days depending on usage.

I do wish battery was a little better, but I deal with it easy.

[kyussmondo]

If you use 3G heavily while out and about to surf the net then your battery life will go down like crazy, also GPS is a big user of battery. Also, turn off bluetooth and Wi-Fi when you don't need it. I recently took a trip down to London, was using it quite a bit with the iPod playing for about 7 hours in total, made a couple of calls, sent a few texts, then went straight to my friends to stay the night and by about midday the next day when I left off it was on about 20%. Wi-Fi was off, bluetooth off, push was on, 3G was on. Also don't go crazy on the apps. Most of them are useless and messing around with them can use a lot of battery life as well. The more apps you have the more unstable your phone will be as well. Some people use their iPhone like a laptop and complain it only lasts a day...laptops only last 3 hours.