Pixel 2 users - google photos - and 7000 old photos from iPhone Question - Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers

I am considering moving from iPhone back to Android. like so many of use Apple users, we get suck in the Apple Ways of doing things. I currently pay $.99 a month for Apples "iCloud Photo Library" which gives me 50 GB of clould storage.
Google, giving Pixel 2 owners free, unlimited, original quality, photo storage is awesome for me as i want to cut all ties with apple if i make this move. My question to the group, I can't find anywhere...
Will i be able to upload and store all my old pictures to google photos in original quality? Or is this just New Photos taken on / With the Pixel 2?
Thanks Guys, Cody

codyppc said:
I am considering moving from iPhone back to Android. like so many of use Apple users, we get suck in the Apple Ways of doing things. I currently pay $.99 a month for Apples "iCloud Photo Library" which gives me 50 GB of clould storage.
Google, giving Pixel 2 owners free, unlimited, original quality, photo storage is awesome for me as i want to cut all ties with apple if i make this move. My question to the group, I can't find anywhere...
Will i be able to upload and store all my old pictures to google photos in original quality? Or is this just New Photos taken on / With the Pixel 2?
Thanks Guys, Cody
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You choose which photo folders on your phone get uploaded to Google Photos.
I pulled my 7000 photos from my iPhone to my laptop, then from my laptop to my Pixel 2. They're all uploaded.
Pretty sure you can use the transfer dongle thing to move all your photos over. Then Google Photos will see them and upload them.
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ajrty33 said:
You choose which photo folders on your phone get uploaded to Google Photos.
I pulled my 7000 photos from my iPhone to my laptop, then from my laptop to my Pixel 2. They're all uploaded.
Pretty sure you can use the transfer dongle thing to move all your photos over. Then Google Photos will see them and upload them.
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16 GB or 32 GB?

I've been seeing differing stories about the size of storage that will come in the AT&T version if the XL. Haven't seen any info on AT&T's website. Anyone know the true story? It's bad enough there's no expansion.
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as far as I am aware, the AT&T One X is coming in 16gb. Which upsets me. I was hoping to replace my iPod with it. But I have more than 16gb of music.
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as far as I am aware, the AT&T One X is coming in 16gb. Which upsets me. I was hoping to replace my iPod with it. But I have more than 16gb of music.
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Pretty upset myself. I understand changing the processor due to LTE compatibility, but don't see the need to decrease the storage size, especially considering there's no expansion slot. It's the one thing that's turning me off to getting it.
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Pretty upset myself. I understand changing the processor due to LTE compatibility, but don't see the need to decrease the storage size, especially considering there's no expansion slot. It's the one thing that's turning me off to getting it.
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I'm considering getting a Vivid and seeing what's available in the fall. I have another upgrade coming up in October. If it's the same old bull**** with At$t at that time I will most likely look at TMobile.
From what I've heard, it looks like it will be 16GB. Add to the fact that the ATT version will not have Tegra 3 and I have decided to get an unlocked HTC One X as I already have 2 LTE devices. The fact that it is a quadband 3G phone wells my eyes with joy remembering the old Win-Mo days of buying the HTC TyTN and TyTn II which had 850/1900 3G built in without ATT meddling.
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I wouldn't be surprised if AT&T released a 16GB AND a 32GB version a month or so from each other. Kind of like a reversed situation with the 16GB Galaxy Nexus coming to Verizon.
Actually, the One X has 32GB. The One XL only has 16GB.
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Actually, the One X has 32GB. The One XL only has 16GB.
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We know the difference. Just like we know the One X is what's going to be in the UK, and the one XL will be the AT&T version. IF it's going to be differentiated.
And every trustworth news source I've seen so far that has posted the specs has quoted it at 16GB... keep in mind you should look for specs a day or two after it was released, since the market is flooded with confusion about which is which.
also to the dude w/ 3 phones, 2 lte... WHY do you need so many phones? share with the less fortunate.
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We know the difference. Just like we know the One X is what's going to be in the UK, and the one XL will be the AT&T version. IF it's going to be differentiated.
And every trustworth news source I've seen so far that has posted the specs has quoted it at 16GB... keep in mind you should look for specs a day or two after it was released, since the market is flooded with confusion about which is which.
also to the dude w/ 3 phones, 2 lte... WHY do you need so many phones? share with the less fortunate.
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The specs are already on the HTC website.
GrandAdmiral said:
I've been seeing differing stories about the size of storage that will come in the AT&T version if the XL. Haven't seen any info on AT&T's website. Anyone know the true story? It's bad enough there's no expansion.
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16GB
http://www.htc.com/us/products/htconex-att#tech-specs
There's still hope.... kind of.
There's still a mysterious HTC Totem/Tahiti that is yet to be revealed.
Sigh I was waiting for this phone but 16gb w/ no microSD slot is just too small and unusable for me. I guess I'll wait for Galaxy S3 =( or Skyrocket HD if it ever comes out...
Well how about this to further complicate things and **** AT&T customers off more. According to this article, the Sprint version of the One X will also come with only 16 GB of storage space, but WILL have an expansion slot. Really? What the hell happened to simplicity with one phone?
Next week I will be going to the invitation only HTC Sprint event, where we hope to see the new version of the HTC One X that Sprint has renamed the HTC EVO One.
Android Central has brought us some pre-event information regarding the changed specifications for the new version HTC One X. The HTC EVO One is different in few ways that I believe may seriously effect the performance in comparison to the HTC One X.
The same 4.7 inch, 720p Amoled screen will be on the HTC EVO One but the changes come in with the 1.5 dual-core Krait processor, 2650mah non-removal battery, 16GB internal memory with a microSD card slot.
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just curious but why would anyone need more than 16 gbs? i've uploaded like 17gb of music to google music and htc is giving you 25 gb from dropbox in which to upload pictures and videos too (which you can see similarly to google music).
i have a note with 16 built in and a 32 removable but looking at the settings right now and ignoring the 29gb i have free on the card, i have 8.76gb free combined between system and "usb" storage (don't ask me why it's labeled that).
so from total os, formatting, loads of apps (71 apps, widgets don't show), pictures (over 200), and whatever else i missed, i still have over 8gbs. i guess my point is, quit downloading porn people. lol, kidding, but i think 16 inside is fine.
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just curious but why would anyone need more than 16 gbs? i've uploaded like 17gb of music to google music and htc is giving you 25 gb from dropbox in which to upload pictures and videos too (which you can see similarly to google music).
i have a note with 16 built in and a 32 removable but looking at the settings right now and ignoring the 29gb i have free on the card, i have 8.76gb free combined between system and "usb" storage (don't ask me why it's labeled that).
so from total os, formatting, loads of apps (71 apps, widgets don't show), pictures (over 200), and whatever else i missed, i still have over 8gbs. i guess my point is, quit downloading porn people. lol, kidding, but i think 16 inside is fine.
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yea 16 gigs is plenty with google music and others it makes taking your music with you simple and easy
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yea 16 gigs is plenty with google music and others it makes taking your music with you simple and easy
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Tell yourself that as you prep for your next round trip cross country flight. 32GB on a flagship 2012 product should have been a no brainer regardless of the model. Since it wasn't, you'll have to decided what music you want to dump in order to fit more movies on-board.
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Tell yourself that as you prep for your next round trip cross country flight. 32GB on a flagship 2012 product should have been a no brainer regardless of the model. Since it wasn't, you'll have to decided what music you want to dump in order to fit more movies on-board.
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Quite true, and keep in mind that NAND backups, especially when you have multiple backups for different ROMs take up quite a LOT of space. Add that to HD videos, movies, high-resolution pictures, music, GPS map files, and that 16GB starts to look pretty damn small really damn fast lol. Then you think "Oh that's fine, I'll just take this MicroSDHC car....oh my God no..." So you pause for a moment and then you might think "Hey at least I have dropbox and a massive amount of files there!" but AT&T is currently doing their best (or worst) to get rid of people that have their unlimited data plan. And even then, after 3-5GB of used bandwidth, you're still on badly throttled speeds until your next billing cycle begins.
So how far can you honestly expect to get with 16GB of memory that is not expandable? Once you eat up your 2GB or 3GB of data, you're $#%@!&, especially if you're in a place where you have no computer access to retrieve files - which would be annoying to have to do anyway. And especially if you're on LTE so the bandwidth flies that much faster. If by some chance you ARE on unlimited data, enjoy downloading and swapping out 200MB of MP3 files or a 500MB movie or a 400+MB backup from your dropbox with heavily throttled speeds. So in the end you're @$#&^* again lol.
I hate to say it, because I was waiting for this device, but the lack of a storage expansion absolutely kills this for me. Add to that the non-removable battery and it's just not worth the money. Yes, there are absolutely amazing features on this device, the screen, the S4, the camera, the unified body like my Inspire - but there are certain deal-breakers that just ruin the entire experience and unfortunately, the One XL for AT&T has two of them.
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just curious but why would anyone need more than 16 gbs? i've uploaded like 17gb of music to google music and htc is giving you 25 gb from dropbox in which to upload pictures and videos too (which you can see similarly to google music).
i have a note with 16 built in and a 32 removable but looking at the settings right now and ignoring the 29gb i have free on the card, i have 8.76gb free combined between system and "usb" storage (don't ask me why it's labeled that).
so from total os, formatting, loads of apps (71 apps, widgets don't show), pictures (over 200), and whatever else i missed, i still have over 8gbs. i guess my point is, quit downloading porn people. lol, kidding, but i think 16 inside is fine.
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Man, I am sick of reading posts like this.
Google music is fine for cloud storage IF you live in the U.S. In Canada we will be stuck with the XL an one S, both only 16gb.
I'm personaly waiting until the fall to see if HTC figures out their failure, if they want iphone features like no expandable storage and a non emovable battery then offer different storage options like Apple does.
If the one S and X / XL came in 16,32 and 64gb options, they'd sell waaaaaaay more.
If HTC wants to stick with low storage than my next phone will be the galaxy s3 instead, that's too bad
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Man, I am sick of reading posts like this.
Google music is fine for cloud storage IF you live in the U.S.
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This.
chaosjh said:
just curious but why would anyone need more than 16 gbs? i've uploaded like 17gb of music to google music and htc is giving you 25 gb from dropbox in which to upload pictures and videos too (which you can see similarly to google music).
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The One X uses about 4-6gb of the 16gb of storage, so we only have 10-12gb to actually play with. After loading a few games, apps, music, pictures, tv shows and movies, I might just make it under the 10gb limit. I hated constantly having to delete apps, movies from my HTC Desire because of the lack of internal storage. I don't want to go through this again with the One X.

any dev getting htc one s

I am picking up the HTC one s this week. So I want to know if there are any dev that are picking up the phone from mytouch4g. I love the work yall done to this phone.
We have plans on supporting the HTC One in the near future
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See you there!!!
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Awesome. I see a lot of port in the near future
Zips just got one. I took a look at one today. I don't think I like it.
I was considering one, but it doesnt have removeable sd card and 16gb is just not really enough for me. Hopefully they come out with a similar htc phone that is more like the new sprint evo with removeable storage.
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I was considering one, but it doesnt have removeable sd card and 16gb is just not really enough for me. Hopefully they come out with a similar htc phone that is more like the new sprint evo with removeable storage.
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+1 the lack of expandable memory and no removable battery is what drove me away from this device and finished concluding my mind set on the amaze.
I have a 32gb SD and I'm already over 16gb and too me, drop box is an inconvinience and really do not trust it.
My bother had the phone for 2 days. He work for tmobile. And it have great battery life. He went a whole day with usage and at the end if the he had over 30 something percent life. And he talk on the phone like a school girl. I myself have a 8gb card but since I have a mp3 It's never filled. I just use it for games and back up. so the phone is perfect for me.
The non-removable battery is a little off-putting, but I think I might overlook the 16GB storage limit. Music is what takes up most of my 16GB SD card, but I'm considering uploading my entire iTunes library to Play Music. And maybe every few days, I'll change up the albums I download to my phone. I only really use the music for working out so I just need a few hours worth of songs. Has anyone tried Play Music this way?
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The non-removable battery is a little off-putting, but I think I might overlook the 16GB storage limit. Music is what takes up most of my 16GB SD card, but I'm considering uploading my entire iTunes library to Play Music. And maybe every few days, I'll change up the albums I download to my phone. I only really use the music for working out so I just need a few hours worth of songs. Has anyone tried Play Music this way?
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Yup, I have over 2,000 songs on play and I stream it through my tablet instead of using the internal storage and sdcard. It's so much more convenient
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Yup, I have over 2,000 songs on play and I stream it through my tablet instead of using the internal storage and sdcard. It's so much more convenient
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I know Google advertises that you can upload 20,000 songs for free, but is that (for lack of a better word) a gimmick? My library sits at approximately 7000 songs, equivalent of about 40GB of music. So Google is just giving away about 120GB of cloud space for free? Seems too good to be true, but if it is, I'm on board.
I'll be at the one s hopefully
lcambriz said:
I know Google advertises that you can upload 20,000 songs for free, but is that (for lack of a better word) a gimmick? My library sits at approximately 7000 songs, equivalent of about 40GB of music. So Google is just giving away about 120GB of cloud space for free? Seems too good to be true, but if it is, I'm on board.
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you guys ever check out Audiogalaxy? great app, look it up sometime
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Yup, I have over 2,000 songs on play and I stream it through my tablet instead of using the internal storage and sdcard. It's so much more convenient
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So you're saying that carrying your cell phone and an extra, bigger device with you to listen to music is more convinient than just having your music in an SD card in the one only, smaller device that fits in your pocket?
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So you're saying that carrying your cell phone and an extra, bigger device with you to listen to music is more convinient than just having your music in an SD card in the one only, smaller device that fits in your pocket?
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You totally missed the point.
It's more convenient that I can use the storage on my tablet for other things and still access my whole music library through the play music app...
You guys are a bunch of smart asses.
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lcambriz said:
I know Google advertises that you can upload 20,000 songs for free, but is that (for lack of a better word) a gimmick? My library sits at approximately 7000 songs, equivalent of about 40GB of music. So Google is just giving away about 120GB of cloud space for free? Seems too good to be true, but if it is, I'm on board.
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It appears so. Worth a try.
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I'm interested in seeing the Samsung galaxy s3. Its not really a friendly device for hacking though
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It appears so. Worth a try.
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It'll probably take me a good while to upload it all but I'll give it a shot. Probably a good idea to have an online backup of all my music, should my hard drive and iPod crash. If I really can upload my entire library, the 16GB strike against the One S has gotten that much smaller. The only con left I can think of is that it won't be compatible with T-Mo's 4G LTE network when it goes up in a year (according to a review I read on USA Today). But since my upgrade will expire well before that, I may as well pull the trigger.
By the way, has anyone heard about a $100 discount from T-Mo if you trade in your current 4G smartphone? I briefly heard something to this effect on the radio this morning but didn't pay close attention.
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I'm interested in seeing the Samsung galaxy s3. Its not really a friendly device for hacking though
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Especially since they have flash counters now, and I read that there's another counter for how many times you reset the flash counter as well.
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It'll probably take me a good while to upload it all but I'll give it a shot. Probably a good idea to have an online backup of all my music, should my hard drive and iPod crash. If I really can upload my entire library, the 16GB strike against the One S has gotten that much smaller. The only con left I can think of is that it won't be compatible with T-Mo's 4G LTE network when it goes up in a year (according to a review I read on USA Today). But since my upgrade will expire well before that, I may as well pull the trigger.
By the way, has anyone heard about a $100 discount from T-Mo if you trade in your current 4G smartphone? I briefly heard something to this effect on the radio this morning but didn't pay close attention.
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Yea, i was smart to wait til I got back on campus to do mine. My download and upload speeds here are insane. I uploaded about 20gb of music over night. Opposed to my dad who's still probably uploading his. He can't do it during the day cause my brothers hog the bandwidth with their ipods, phones and consoles to stream netflix and play mw3. I hate my Internet at home. Lol
And t-mo does do that I think.
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Space

Are you guys at all concerned with space? My wife has a 16gb captivate and it's almost full from pictures. The one x only had 16gb internal and no external Sd card right? What do i do about her wanting to keep current pictures and have room for the future?
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Are you guys at all concerned with space? My wife has a 16gb captivate and it's almost full from pictures. The one x only had 16gb internal and no external Sd card right? What do i do about her wanting to keep current pictures and have room for the future?
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Not that concerned. My old phone was an iPhone 32GB. I used a little more than half of it only because of all the apps I had. Knowing that, it hasn't been a problem on the HTC One X. A lot of my old apps I should have deleted anyways.
For pictures, I've set Drop Box to auto upload pictures from the camera folder when on Wi-Fi. So far, it hasn't been a problem. As of this writing, I can take 5579 more pictures before the local storage is full. Hope this helps.
The one x has integrated dropbox and 25 gb of extra space for free.On my rogers one x I can set the camera to automatically upload pictures taken right to dropbox. So if its primarily pics you're concerned with it shouldn't be too bad.
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Google + integration too. I have mine set to sync automatically on wifi.
I have a 16GB iPhone and haven't come close to filling it.
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Are you guys at all concerned with space? My wife has a 16gb captivate and it's almost full from pictures. The one x only had 16gb internal and no external Sd card right? What do i do about her wanting to keep current pictures and have room for the future?
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Take pics off the phone. that's like 6k++ pictures.
Beyond that, you have a 25gb Dropbox account, as well as 5gb Google drive.
No. Had a 32GB iPhone 4. Only used about 8GB in almost 2 years.
I don't watch video on my phone anymore since I have the new iPad, I mostly use my phone now for photos and music only. I only synce about 5-6 gigs of music, so dump the photos to Dropbox and a few apps and I will be happy. I am just excited about Chrome and LTE on a 4.7" screen.
Not worried either. I've had an 8GB mSD card in my EVO without an issue. Especially these days with Google Play Music streaming, Dropbox and Google Drive.
I was a little concerned about the space but with integrated drop box. I have set my pictures to upload then delete them from my device then I use doubletwist for my music and sync and change my playlists once every few days.
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16 GB will fit approx. 3,000 pictures. If you have 3,000 pictures and haven't uploaded any to the cloud, something is wrong.
I have 10 gigs of podcasts on my captivate. being a security guard means audio is a essential part of my day. don't like the thought of whittling that figure down but the one x is looking mighty fine. just wish it was 32 gigs then i wouldn't hesitate.
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16 GB will fit approx. 3,000 pictures. If you have 3,000 pictures and haven't uploaded any to the cloud, something is wrong.
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Which cloud are you talking about. Also, can the pictures be uploaded to a cloud but still browsed as if they are on your phone?
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Which cloud are you talking about. Also, can the pictures be uploaded to a cloud but still browsed as if they are on your phone?
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I don't know how tightly dropbox is integrated, but if you put them up on Picasa or in your google folders, it is pretty much seamless to browse those albums from the cloud.
What kind of speed do you need to use Google music? I have LTE at home and at school, but some places I drive through don't. It's incredibly irritating that ATT ruined an otherwise perfect phone by halving storage and removing the SD card slot.
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What kind of speed do you need to use Google music? I have LTE at home and at school, but some places I drive through don't. It's incredibly irritating that ATT ruined an otherwise perfect phone by halving storage and removing the SD card slot.
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Except that at&t had no say in the manufacturing an the design of the phone.
... delegated to a Nigerian prince. Send money.
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Except that at&t had no say in the manufacturing an the design of the phone.
... delegated to a Nigerian prince. Send money.
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The phone is capable of more. The carriers are HTC's customers of these and are the ones that spec the phones. It's not an accident that the intl version has 32gb and ATT/Rogers only has 16gb. Or that the Sprint version has a microSD slot and ATT/Rogers doesn't.
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The phone is capable of more. The carriers are HTC's customers of these and are the ones that spec the phones. It's not an accident that the intl version has 32gb and ATT/Rogers only has 16gb. Or that the Sprint version has a microSD slot and ATT/Rogers doesn't.
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The phones are spec'd, then the carriers choose which to buy. The early adopting carriers are getting the 16gb version, the first of the variants. The international xl is 16gb too. The 32gb variant (only listed in Australia so far) won't be in the market for several weeks if not months to come (partially because of the issues quallcom is having with tsmc). The bom (bill of materials) will most likely be quite different as well.
The carriers choose what they want of what's made available at the time and make orders. Then those orders are then fulfilled. Adjustments, such as branding, must be implemented before manufacturing begins. Each design change costs money, the bigger the change the bigger the bill. The Rogers one is a vanilla xl with only software customization.... the volume of their order was probably pretty small as well.
The at&t one has just the at&t branding above the screen. Sprint, on the otherhand, has probably paid htc almost double ppu (price per unit) for their variant. And their orders were put in much later than rogers & at&t. Their unit quantity order is also much higher than at&t's. They'll have a finite number available. Because the at&t & rogers units are pretty much vanilla, it makes it much easier for them to make repeat orders when needed.
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Yes, open up the drop box acct. and than all your pics can be put there.You can access them from your phone quite easily!!
I'm not concerned about the space necessarily because of the cloud services, but I am concerned about the amount of data I'll use while uploading items to the cloud service.
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I want AT&T HOX - scared of only 16GB.

I am looking to upgrade from iPhone 4 to AT&T HTC One X on Sunday. The fact that there is no removable battery does not bother me, coming from an iphone. What does in fact have me worried is that it is only 16GB (12GB to the user). Now if I take all my music out, I am well below that amount and can potentially stream.
Do folks think the 25GB of dropbox would help w/ this issue? I have not used it in the past and cuirous if that would fill most needs.
Not much of a question in this thread, my apologies. Just not wanting buyers remorse.
Thank you all.
Between Dropbox, Google Drive and Google Play, you should be fine.
Coming from a 32GB iPhone I know I'll be fine. My entire music library is on Google Play and other than that I'm good. I don't store videos on my phone and my pictures could not reach 10GB.
Even more icing on the cake they are including 25Gb of drop storage.
Yeah, you should be fine with the 25 from Dropbox. Also, it would also help you if you upload your music to Google Play, since you can make it available for streaming offline.
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This is where I stand on this topic which seems to irk a lot of folks. We have Google drive, for storage, Google music for of course music, Google plus for your pictures and 25 gigs of dropbox for two years. And this isn't counting the memory on the phone. There's no excuse to worry about memory and where to store it any longer. Even devs can't complain about needing to have an SD card because all Roms and the sort can be stored on drive or dropbox. So you see memory on phones is basically an afterthought. Whatever you have built in is plenty.!!
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Thanks all. I do have my music up on Google Play - I was unaware of the offline play!
I will be pickign up the HOX on Sunday. Worst case is I can always return it if I feel it does not meet my needs.
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This is where I stand on this topic which seems to irk a lot of folks. We have Google drive, for storage, Google music for of course music, Google plus for your pictures and 25 gigs of dropbox for two years. And this isn't counting the memory on the phone. There's no excuse to worry about memory and where to store it any longer. Even devs can't complain about needing to have an SD card because all Roms and the sort can be stored on drive or dropbox. So you see memory on phones is basically an afterthought. Whatever you have built in is plenty.!!
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Only in the U.S.A, in Canada we do not have access to google music.
If HTC released the 32gb version with 2 1/2 times the usuable storage like the international version (25gb versus 9.8) I'd be all over this phone like a fat kid on a brownie.
I know us Canucks are in the minority, and even then some Canadians don't care, but we have three year contracts up here. To keep my desire current my "developement" folder on my SD card alone is over 4.5gb of custom ROMs, nandroid backups, radios, rils, kernels etc. Something to consider, if you want (in the future) to play with your One X be prepared to always have a computer handy. One of the draws of android to me is it doesn't need a computer.
Some my complaints as a Canadian:
1. Can't use google music to stream, hence need local storage for music
2. Dropbox is for two years, our contracts are three.........nuf said, though google drive is a nice affordable alternative
I know this issue has been beat to death, but personnally I have decided to wait until the fall to see if HTC releases a One X2, or whatever with more storage options. I was waiting for the S3 to decide but dam that thing is fugly, and so heavily skinned, with Samsungs record of poor updating.........good luck seeing jelly bean on that thing, One X....definately.
Samsung did one thing right, 16, 32 or 64gb options........hopefully HTC follows suite in their next series and this will be one issue that can be put to bed forever.
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Yeah. I know but I am gonna try it too. Only its approx 9.9Gb of usable space not 12Gb
msherman123 said:
Thanks all. I do have my music up on Google Play - I was unaware of the offline play!
I will be pickign up the HOX on Sunday. Worst case is I can always return it if I feel it does not meet my needs.
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Offline play will save it into your phone, so it will still take up space
Not sure if it supports it yet, but USB OTG.
Just plug your host cable into the phone and plug a jump drive / SD card / portable HD into it. I have a 32gb jump drive I plug into my phone when I want to transfer some movies.
polo045 said:
This is where I stand on this topic which seems to irk a lot of folks. We have Google drive, for storage, Google music for of course music, Google plus for your pictures and 25 gigs of dropbox for two years. And this isn't counting the memory on the phone. There's no excuse to worry about memory and where to store it any longer. Even devs can't complain about needing to have an SD card because all Roms and the sort can be stored on drive or dropbox. So you see memory on phones is basically an afterthought. Whatever you have built in is plenty.!!
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This would be fine if I didn't have a 2gb data plan with AT&T.
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Not sure if it supports it yet, but USB OTG.
Just plug your host cable into the phone and plug a jump drive / SD card / portable HD into it. I have a 32gb jump drive I plug into my phone when I want to transfer some movies.
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Can you elaborate on this some? It may be an option if we can utilize a thumbdrive on the go if needed. Would I need a USB Connector Cable (M/F on each end)? Would it then just show up as a mounted folder?
Would this phone support it anyone know?
Everyone seems to be forgetting about Data limits, these carriers are going to love us streaming our music, videos, pictures, etc. Imagine all the money they going to make by people going over their very small data limits.
I wish we had at least 32GB of storage.
Thunder350 said:
Everyone seems to be forgetting about Data limits, these carriers are going to love us streaming our music, videos, pictures, etc. Imagine all the money they going to make by people going over their very small data limits.
I wish we had at least 32GB of storage.
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I agree, though I am still on AT&Ts unlimited plan. That will be good until I get throttled at 5GB. Though I have not found anything better w/ another carrier. 5GB is a tough cap to hit though for standard use.

[Q] [Poll] Are you getting 16GB or 32GB?

I haven't decided. I have the 32GB nexus 7 2013 and I haven't used more than 10GB honestly. I put movies on it, watch them, then delete them on the device when I'm done... My music is on the cloud and I only use this at home.
I can say I won't be putting movies on my N5 and the apps will be on the more productive side of things rather than entertainment. i think the only things that will take up most space are my TWRP and titanium backups. Music will be on the cloud as well.
I personally think 16GB is more than enough for anyone who uses Google Services and does not rely on their N5 as their primary media device. I feel that tablets require more space in general though...
I will get the 32gb on my 16gb n4 my music took a lot of storage so no room for games apps etc...
It really depends if the 32gb is 50 or 100$ more and how much money I have at that time. Honestly I'd be okay with 8gb but I'd rather have too much storage than not enough.
32GB all the way. I do not use cloud services for music(in canada not even sure if they are available to me yet) so music fills my phone VERY fast. I have to keep deleting or moving things on my current phone when i wand to add a movie or game to it. Games also take up a large part. Can never have to much storage and the price is normally not different enough to not make it worth it. I mean if the 32GB was twice the price then i would go for 16 but if it's like 50-100 bucks then why not.
StatusQuo209 said:
I haven't decided. I have the 32GB nexus 7 2013 and I haven't used more than 10GB honestly. I put movies on it, watch them, then delete them on the device when I'm done... My music is on the cloud and I only use this at home.
I can say I won't be putting movies on my N5 and the apps will be on the more productive side of things rather than entertainment. i think the only things that will take up most space are my TWRP and titanium backups. Music will be on the cloud as well.
I personally think 16GB is more than enough for anyone who uses Google Services and does not rely on their N5 as their primary media device. I feel that tablets require more space in general though...
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I'm basically in the same boat. First I bought the 16gb N4 and barely used any space. I never store anything on it because I'm a flashaholic. I flash a new ROM at least once a week, and I don't want to have to deal with transferring stuff to my phone after every flash. When the Nexus 7 2013 came out, I decided to give my storage space a bump to 32gb because I thought I'd install more games and stuff. Same situation; I flashed new stuff all the time so I barely used the space. I've actually started settling down on the flashing of my tablet for just those reasons. I'm going to start putting those games and maybe shows on my tablet.
So to answer your question: I'm not 100% sure yet. I'm more than happy to shell out the extra dough for expanded storage even if I might need it, but if I never end up using it, I don't want to feel like I wasted that extra money. If only I could see the future and tell my future needs
32gb for sure but my 16gb nexus hasent really yet got storage problems as i got 3 big games 3 songs and not many videos yet but i can say a lot of photos happily n5 will have otg i hope! right now i really got big screen hunger i want to work whit big screen nexus is small i mean for a phone not but i want to try a tablet but im also addicated to nexus feelings and stuff!!! i wish google also announce new nexus 10 so i can at least see
Grondinm said:
32GB all the way. I do not use cloud services for music(in canada not even sure if they are available to me yet) so music fills my phone VERY fast. I have to keep deleting or moving things on my current phone when i wand to add a movie or game to it. Games also take up a large part. Can never have to much storage and the price is normally not different enough to not make it worth it. I mean if the 32GB was twice the price then i would go for 16 but if it's like 50-100 bucks then why not.
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You should look into Subsonic.
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
32GB...currently have a 16GB S4 with 64GB micro SD...I think I'd struggle with 16GB
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It depends how much it is really as long as its under £300 then yeah 32gb all the way because I plan to retire my old 2nd gen iPod touch and have all my music and podcasts on one device
Absolutely 32GB.
I can't resist another year with only 16GB (as my Galaxy Nexus).
16 GB. I have T-Mo unlimited 4g, 17,000 songs on Google Music, and use Netflix for movies.
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16 GB. I have T-Mo unlimited 4g, 17,000 songs on Google Music, and use Netflix for movies.
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Yup me too. Same thing.
Videos - YouTube, Youtube/movies on tablet when I'm at home, load up a few movies on phone for trips if needed.
Music - Google Music, Pandora.
Games - I don't play serious games on my phone. I got a Gaming PC for that Haha. I play some games on the tablet.
Pictures - Synced with the cloud. They don't take up much space anyways..
I got the unlimited data.
Would there be a 64GB version?
16GB, I don't store things on my phone so 16GB is more than enough.
In the same boat on whether to get the 16 or 32 if it will be out. my n4 still has a lot of space. i'll probably just stick with the 16gb if ever.
th3xeroeagle said:
I will get the 32gb on my 16gb n4 my music took a lot of storage so no room for games apps etc...
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I just had to quote your post because of the gif signature. even though i've seen those several times, i still get victimized by it and just had to touch my screen to get that thing off. lol :good:
All the way
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32GB.
I need to fluff my e-pants.
32GB without even hesitating. Music takes a large portion of my memory...Plus it never hurts to have extra space. (only in your pocket though)
32GB with no hesitation...
Go big or go home
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32GB...I store over 20GBs of music on my phone...even more on my PC...cant do streaming/cloudstorage cause I dont have an unlimited data plan...plus im an audiophile
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