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recently we did a video on how much storage you should have in your desktop

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or laptop computer but the brain trust here at techwiki got back to work and

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quickly decided hey hold on a minute people are on their phones a lot more

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than their computers these days why don't we do an episode about whether

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buying a high capacity phone is worth it

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and when i say high capacity i mean it these days it is easy to find phones

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with up to 512 gigabytes of on-board storage that's as

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much as you would find in some laptops and there are even a handful of one

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terabyte models on the horizon but is there a practical use for such

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spacious phones or is everyone dropping fat stacks on them just wasting their

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money let's break down what actually eats up

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phone storage to begin with any phone you buy will obviously have an operating

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system installed that takes somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 to 15 gigabytes

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depending on exactly how it's been tweaked by the manufacturer for your

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device so after you knock that much off the listed capacity another massive space

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hog on your phone can be games just like on a desktop pc now of course

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you're not going to see mobile games that take up 50 gigabytes or more like

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you would on steam but the lower capacities of most

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smartphones mean that you do have to keep track of what you're installing

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quite a few of the more graphically intensive games out there can take up

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around two gigabytes of space each and some of them can even take upwards of

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five however most games usually take between

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a couple dozen and a couple hundred megabytes so let's say you like your

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games and you've got a handful of the more elaborate titles and then a dozen

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or so of the lighter ones you're probably looking at another 10 to 15

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more gigabytes for gaming the next storage glutton is video to use an

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iphone as an example a standard 1080p video at 30 frames per second will take

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up around 130 megabytes of storage per

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minute with 4k video at the same frame rate taking up about three times that

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much so if you have a total of let's say an hour of video at both 1080

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and 4k on your phone you're probably looking at needing around another 20

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gigabytes of space the nice thing though is that both

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iphones and Android devices come with a certain amount of free cloud storage and

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of course you can pay for more thing is though it will take slightly

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longer to access files in the cloud as opposed to one stored locally on your

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phone and if you're on your mobile data connection and you've got a low

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bandwidth cap it could end up costing you money to bring down videos that you

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want to show someone now with that said we still do recommend

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that if you shoot lots of videos or photos regardless of how much storage

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space is on your phone that you do safely back them up either to the cloud

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or to another device in case your device gets lost or damaged

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now speaking of photos many flagship caliber phones will use around four

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megabytes per photo on their default settings so if you have about 500 photos

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stored on your phone something that can happen pretty easily

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you're gonna need to add another two gigabytes

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again though cloud storage will help offset this impact if you've got a quick

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shutter figure but what about audio well gone are the days where most of us are

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walking around with gigs upon gigs of songs in our pocket because these days

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it's much more common to subscribe to a streaming service like spotify and jam

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out that way so we're going to assume that you don't need a ton of space

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for actual music but with that said you might want to

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reserve another Gigabyte or two or another 10 or 20 if you're into

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downloading podcasts or audio books or video content from netflix and consuming

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it when you're offline like when you're on the plane bringing us finally to the

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variable with the greatest amount of um variation

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all your other apps so if you've been keeping score at home we've come in at

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anywhere from around 50 gigabytes of space to 70 to keep things comfortable

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for what we would consider to be a pretty heavy user

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but how much you need beyond this

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heavily depends on how you use your phone it's very easy for the average

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user with a couple dozen apps installed to need an additional 15 to 20 gigabytes

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not only for the apps themselves but in

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many cases to store all the extra data

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that they create and download think about all the photos that you take from

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within a social media app or all the pictures that people share with you in

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large group chats so with all that said what's the answer

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to the original question well we think that a user who uses their

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phone for lots of different things should be very comfortable with either a

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64 gig or 120 Gigabyte model depending

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on their specific needs so at this time we wouldn't recommend spending money to

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go over that unless you've got some really esoteric use case where you know

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