big upset in my eyes.

[Tworek]

I heard about the iphone a while ago and just started looking into it.

I noticed that its only available in 4g or 8g?

I currently have a 30g iPod video and its stuffed full 100%

Whats the reasoning for this huge downgrade? When i first heard about it, the first thing that popped into my head was, Wonderful, a worthwhile upgrade for my iPod and cellphone all wrapped in on tidy package. but with this tiny memory it has ill have to carry around my old iPod anyway to bring my music with me.

Any word that this info is just for the initial release or will there be a larger capacity iPhone available?

[ebrunn]

I heard about the iphone a while ago and just started looking into it.

I noticed that its only available in 4g or 8g?

I currently have a 30g iPod video and its stuffed full 100%

Whats the reasoning for this huge downgrade? When i first heard about it, the first thing that popped into my head was, Wonderful, a worthwhile upgrade for my iPod and cellphone all wrapped in on tidy package. but with this tiny memory it has ill have to carry around my old iPod anyway to bring my music with me.

Any word that this info is just for the initial release or will there be a larger capacity iPhone available?

NO WAY!! ONLY 4GB and 8GB?
Get off these forums or stop posting stupid questions like these. This has been discussed alot of times already.

You ever think thats its not a replacement for the iPod? Its a phone. Do you see alot of 30GB phones?

[dblaron]

hey don't be to hard on the guy. the whole idea behind this site is to get a lot of people on here to talk. Instead we should tell him to just read the past posts on this topic. Well as for the low storage capacity. It is this way for one reason. POWER!!! and the fact that ther is really no flash memory device that I know of over 12g. They didn't want to put an actual hard drive in brcause it would drain the battery to quickly. You will start to see devices with more flash memory but it will not jump as fast as it did with spinning drives.

[wot_fan]

Besides being much more energy efficient as dblaron said, flash memory is also more durable than a hard drive. A hard drive has moving parts where flash does not.

[Edward]

Now now guys, be nice.

Considering the size of the iPhone, I think it has a very decent amount of space. You have to take into account that it has a good number of chips in there. It has a Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) chip, an EDGE chip, a Bluetooth 2.0 chip, a camera, about 3 sensors (accelerometer, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor) that pressumably use other chips, and a couple of others I may not know of. So seeing that you still have room for music and movies in the given size of the device is pretty nice.

[Lob]

NO WAY!! ONLY 4GB and 8GB?
Get off these forums or stop posting stupid questions like these. This has been discussed alot of times already.

You ever think thats its not a replacement for the iPod? Its a phone. Do you see alot of 30GB phones?

SAY HELLO TO HIS LITTLE FRIEND!!!!!!!!!!

[chris]

Please, let's keep things friendly. New users are welcome here... mistreatment of new users is not.

-Chris

[Iceblinkluck]

http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3652171

600 dollars for the 32gig chip... but not so far off in the future.... So you may get your 30gig iphone sometime sooner or later....

I can see the original posters point... this device is so juicy because of the possibility of having one and only one device to do everything.... but most people will have to keep their original ipods. (or at least I will) I still think apple should consider a media card slot and a removable battery...

[robhon]

There is a stop-gap measure for this issue built right into iTunes. It's called Playlists. Just go into iTunes and create some fun playlists. At 8gigs that's some 2000+ songs, isn't it? That's far more listening than you could do in a day. Hell, create 7 playlists, one for each day of the week. Then each day just tick the box in iTunes for the day's playlist, update your iPhone... voila!

It means your ENTIRE music collection is not in your pocket at all times. But that seems like a small price to pay for battery life (talk time) on your phone.

[chris]

There is a stop-gap measure for this issue built right into iTunes. It's called Playlists. Just go into iTunes and create some fun playlists. At 8gigs that's some 2000+ songs, isn't it? That's far more listening than you could do in a day. Hell, create 7 playlists, one for each day of the week. Then each day just tick the box in iTunes for the day's playlist, update your iPhone... voila!

It means your ENTIRE music collection is not in your pocket at all times. But that seems like a small price to pay for battery life (talk time) on your phone.

I too get caught up in having a bigger iPod. In reality, the 8GB is probably more practical than the 30GB. I use my Shuffle daily and use a playlist to manage my music (as recommended above). Works great and I suspect that will be my tactic with the iPhone. I rarely scratch the surface of listening to all the music on my 30GB.

Playlists offer a plethora of customization options (live updating), but I haven't set any like that up just yet.

-Chris