Google Pixel 8 (128GB): $699 / €799 / £699
Google Pixel 8 Pro (128GB): $999 / €1,099 / £999

  • BOMBS
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    251 year ago

    I’m not arguing against your point at all because that seems like a personal matter. However, I am interested in knowing how the typical person uses more than 128GB of storage space. Aside from people with interests that require more space (eg a photographer or traveler), what do people have on their phones that take up more than 128GB of storage space?

    • Dr. Moose
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      181 year ago

      Dude android games these days are 10gb+

      My point being is that the production cost between 256gb and 128gb driver is almost identical and the phone manufacturers purposefully gimp the product to upsell some random bullshit.

      • AggressivelyPassive
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        21 year ago

        And how many people play these games? I don’t know a single person that does. For all these people, that much storage would be a waste.

        • Dr. Moose
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          101 year ago

          Literally billions of people. Like people forget smart phone games are so far ahead by user count that a single game often has more players than ALL gaming consoles COMBINED. I’m not saying it’s great, I’m just saying it’s wildly popular.

          • Polar
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            -61 year ago

            Ya, because it’s full of children. The games you are talking about are games like Minecraft, where their parents won’t buy them a computer or console, but they will run it at 20fps on their random tablet.

    • LCP
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      131 year ago

      Photos (I like to shoot RAW+JPEG), videos and music. Pixels don’t come with micro SD card slots, and other manufacturers have been getting rid of it as well.

      Even apps these days are at least 100-200 MB.

      • BOMBS
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        41 year ago

        Interesting! How do phones typically encode their files, and what are the benefits of shooting RAW+JPEG?

        • LCP
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          141 year ago

          RAW files contain the raw, unprocessed information from the camera’s sensor, whereas the JPEGs have the device manufacturer’s processing on them. RAW images provide a lot of flexibility when editing in applications like Adobe Lightroom. You can recover a lot of detail you otherwise might lose in JPEGs. After processing them you export them as JPEGs.

          Here’s a good example I found online:

          They take up a lot of space. A picture of my housemate’s cat was 3.2 MB in JPEG and 16.6 MB in RAW.

          • BOMBS
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            51 year ago

            woah, that’s super cool! thanks for sharing and providing an example 🙂

      • @rambaroo@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        That still doesn’t answer the question though. I have photos and music on my phone and I still have 60+ GB of free storage

        • LCP
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          31 year ago

          I just happen to have more photos, videos, music and apps than you.

          How long have you had your phone for? I’ve had my Pixel 6a for just over a year now.

    • @pruneaue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      121 year ago

      I mainly agree with you, i have enough of 128gb. But i know a lot of people that take a ton of pictures and struggle with storage space

    • @Resolved3874@lemdro.id
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      111 year ago

      Pixel 7 pro 256gb model checking in. I don’t take a bunch of pictures and videos but I also hardly ever delete anything and I take pictures and videos in the highest possible quality I can. My phone has 100gb of storage left between apps and media.

    • @Deftdrummer@lemmy.world
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      61 year ago

      Here’s one example: An Insta 360 camera for a single 10 minute video can produce upwards of 10gb of data.

      Those video files can only really be transferred to your phone for editing and sharing.

      That’s ONE example that doesn’t include gaming (a highly mainstream community) that also requires gigabytes of storage.

    • @Charlatan@lemm.ee
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      61 year ago

      Loads of FLAC music, track / map storage for offline camping / offroad, offline music downloads from Deezer (Hi-Res) for playback without network.

    • @spikederailed@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I personally like to go camping, offroading, sometimes hiking. The camping can be for days at a time in places with marginal cellular signal. So I personally like having GBs and GBs of mp3s loaded onto my device to listen to.

      Probably not a typical use case, but 64+ GB of music isn’t out of the question at all for me

    • @signs23@feddit.de
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      11 year ago

      I dont know how, but i have currently 68gb of App data on my phone. Im a photographer and traveler and i already try to push photos to cloud. But sometimes its not possible. So im happy about 256gb, so i dont need to care.

      I want to switch to a Pixel 8 Pro, but im considered with that price tag and i need to pay 70€ for additional 128gb of storage…

      I mean they promoted it with more MP cameras and better video, that will all take up storage.

      I think its fair to call it BS not starting with 256gb as a basis.