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[Nexus 4 General] Vertron:
You'll need to glue a hard drive to the back of your phone!
[Nexus 4 General] Terul:
Voted 4GB. I currently use less than 1GB on my Xperia Arc - that said my SD card says 11GB is free out of 14GB but the breakdown doesn't add up. I am guessing part of it is from CWM backups or something. Anyway, 4GB is enough for me. 8GB is plenty.

Streaming music ftw! :)
[Nexus 4 General] explosivequack:
16gb well be perfect for me, I moved everything on my s2 onto internal and deleted everything i don't need leaving me with about 2gb left, and i still have a couple Gameloft games and all my music.:)
[Nexus 4 General] :
16GB
[Nexus 4 General] Cusa:
8GB is more than enough for me.
[Nexus 4 General] Mgzkun:
I9100 with 16 GB and never come close to fill 10GB... so 16 GB should be enough
[Nexus 4 General] Nucleotide:
I can manage with 16Gb, I'd prefer 32Gb. :)
[Nexus 4 General] Euler MD:
I need 8GB but 16GB would be great. How do you people mange to use more than 8GB?
[Nexus 4 General] Panos_dm:
I would be ok with 8 gigs but the 8 gb will come with approx. 5. That's really slim. Let's see:

3 gb for some music

1 gb for some apps

ONLY 1 for data...

Just for basic use!!
[Nexus 4 General] :
Minimum 64. I'll happily take more. If the storms of the past week taught us anything? Nothing replaces local storage. Nothing.
[Nexus 4 General] AwesomeTurtle:
That's only a lesson if some East-US-based cloud service went down.

Kindly direct me to a story about an affected cloud service and I'll... damn, I'll still not consider it a lesson, because I know not to store my vitals in the cloud. Never mind.
[Nexus 4 General] venturizhou:
If I didn't have access to Google Music I would probably say around 32GB to feel comfortable in terms of storing my music, keep my pictures, as well as having some games. But since I do host most of my items on the cloud, I probably don't need more than 8GB. I tend to only have one or two large games on my phone plus various apps.
[Nexus 4 General] Yuhfhrh:
I would not buy a phone with <16gb. I really need 32gb though, and prefer 64gb.
[Nexus 4 General] Venekor:
32GB is what I need atm to fit everything on but I'd really like 64GB for future proofing.
[Nexus 4 General] vinnyutd6899:
16gb is more than enough for me!

i have got 23Gb (8000 family pics and videos) stored on picasa instantly available to view on my phone,

and i have got 7000 songs (20+GB) stored in my Google music account.

on my htc one x i am using about 1.5gb of storage 800mb of that is apps.
[Nexus 4 General] hev88:
PSH. At least 1tb or 2 for a phone... that should be enough to keep duplicates of all my media I already have in my computer lol

Seriously though 16gb is plenty. I've learned to live with it on gnex so its not a big deal to me

Sent from my Maguro
[Nexus 4 General] Andraxo:
16 gb is just fine :)
[Nexus 4 General] deltatux:
16/32 GB is currently the sweet spot. Wished Google saw that too. Need minimum of 16 GB, 32 GB is recommended.

deltatux
[Nexus 4 General] eep2378:
Honestly I've owned the S2(i777,16GB) for the last yr and I don't really see myself needing more than 16GB. I don't play many games on my phone. I don't need 500 apps. When I get 5-6GB of pictures/videos I transfer them to my PC(I'm gonna keep them for memories sake, why do I need them all on my phone at once?) There is plenty of room to download whatever Roms,Mods, etc that you wanna try and still have plenty of space left for whatever.
[Nexus 4 General] ctowne:
Edge is gonna be the death of me.. Still locked in for another 15 months on contract. Hopefully T-Mobile does some upgrades here soon... Yeah right!
[Nexus 4 General] barondebxl:
I don't use a lot of memory at all, in fact the things that uses most of my memory are roms and backed up roms. I have like 70 apps and a 100 songs. I also have Dropbox and google dive. Is 8 gig ok for me?
[Nexus 4 General] Chad_Petree:
I don't know why it was so hard for Google to sell a 450 $ nexus 4, at least give us the option, come on!
[Nexus 4 General] @rbiter:
64gb internal and 64gb SD card.

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[Nexus 4 General] intern:
I used to think 32/64 but now that I use spotify, I barely need 8..
[Nexus 4 General] Alicklee:
16gb plus 32sd works for me

Sent from galaxy s2x close by using the force of jedi knight 3 while waiting for my note 2
[Nexus 4 General] Harry GT-S5830:
8GB For me, I have a 158mb internal storage phone and a 2gb Micro SD card and i dont run into problems.

I store my crap on the cloud (I have unlimited data plan)
[Nexus 4 General] decepticon:
I need 8GB I'd love 64GB. Thanks to Google Music, Drive, and + Instant Upload I don't use nearly the space I used to.

On a tablet however I think 32GB should be the minimum given the fact I use it for movies.
[Nexus 4 General] ronnyzilker:
16GB is more than enough for me.
[Nexus 4 General] simc1978:
I've got a 32GB card in my desire and most of it is filled with music. I don't think the cloud is the answer for me as I'd burn through my 1GB data limit in 5-10 hours of listening depending on bit rate. I also travel quite a bit and don't want to pay extortionate roaming data charges.
[Nexus 4 General] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
16GB bare min ...
[Nexus 4 General] CJHolderUK:
Ever since I got my N7 phone usage has been limited to music and using as a well, phone. :P So 16gb is fine, and Play Music is coming to the UK so I can use my unlimited GiffGaff data for steaming. :)
[Nexus 4 General] galaxys:
8 works for me with Google cloud services!
[Nexus 4 General] dyne2199:
16GB is plenty for my needs.
[Nexus 4 General] richteralan:
Haven't really filled my 32GB Sony Xperia S.

I guess I would really prefer 32GB since I use offline GPS a lot so needs bigger storage for maps download.

I also have a big music library.

Maybe 16GB is the bare minimum for me....
[Nexus 4 General] lathanub:
Had 16GB Galaxy Nexus and didn't use even half of it, so 16GB Nexus 4 will suit just fine. I guess by that statement, 8GB would be fine too but I do enjoy having a little extra kick for not a lot more money =).
[Nexus 4 General] Initial_G:
16gb

I think the 16gb would be ideal for me. Most of the memory Ill be using is from music anyways but most of the music can now be streamed through Google's Play Music application anyways.
[Nexus 4 General] Galactic2:
realistically 16gb would be fine for me.

Music - I'm one of an archaic era and still use a dedicated mp3 player (Zune HD) because i don't want to drain my battery listening to music on my commutes. So very little music would be on my phone. ~500mb

Movies - I'd stick with my laptop and tablet (nexus 7 32gb). Any home movies taken with the phone would be backed up to my laptop/cloud anyway cuz i'd hate to lose them. (which ive done before)

Games- Any 1gb+ games go str8 to my tablet. And I never play them past a few weeks/months anyway sooooo...

Most of the space on my phone would be taken up by apps and photos ive taken with my phone.16gb (or 12-13gb rather) should be just fine.
[Nexus 4 General] NEXUSBOY:
I need 16gb:thumbup:
[Nexus 4 General] zelendel:
Sense I knew there would be no external storage I completely stopped using my SD card to see what I really needed. 16GB is enough for a some work, some fun and some testing. Bigger would be nice but not a deal breaker.

Sent from Arkham
[Nexus 4 General] PlanBSTi:
16 will work for me. But I'm somewhat lazy and rarely delete anything on my phone.

I don't take a lot of pictures nor video. Google+ and drop box has copies of them anyways. I would love to see a SD Card slot though.
[Nexus 4 General] lokenok:
32gb.. i take lots of pictures.. also i dont have internet thts why
[Nexus 4 General] windozeanti:
16GB ought to be enough for most people.

Sent from my Motofail MB860
[Nexus 4 General] mafia187:
32gb HTC one x, 25.24gb usable, 19.07 available 4gb apps 2gb music. all video and pics off phone. I would of liked 32gb but 16gb will do.
[Nexus 4 General] pachi72:
Listening to music don't drain batteries. Only when streaming using 3G
[Nexus 4 General] jacklebott:
Of course listening to locally stored music still drains the battery :rolleyes:

Just not as much as if it were streamed
[Nexus 4 General] limpopo:
"Google have stated"? Oooh. Really scared now. What Google have said is obvious BS, and we do not have to buy into that.

To answer your question, none of us really need any storage - we got by before the mobile phone was even available.

On the other hand, another answer is that we don't really know how much we may "need" in future, or from time to time, hence a micro sd slot is the only reasonable solution, especially as it is very cheap to implement, and allows people to decide for themselves, and CHANGE THEIR MINDS from time to time.
[Nexus 4 General] donec:
I remember when everyone thought we would never be able to fillup a 20Meg hard drive for a full blown computer. Ooops! That didn't last and the life of the Nexus 4 wont last before it is killed by the new killer phone on the block either. However for the time being I am not willing to spend the extra $50.00 just to jump to 16GB especially since I don't believe I will use it.

So I voted 8GB.

Of course just to cover my bases and to have an easy way to sync common files with my laptop and avoid the cloud I am adding a Wi-Drive of 32GB. Yes it will cost me $20.00 more than the 16GB modle would but for the extra money I get twice the storage and easy sync of files. To me the perfect answer.
[Nexus 4 General] Phorce:
16GB will be enough for me, but wouldn't mind more if the price was right!
[Nexus 4 General] Deggy:
This is the fourth nexus phone without a SD slot. This is still surprising people?
[Nexus 4 General] pak-stars:
the original htc nexus one which i owned had an micro sd card slot
[Nexus 4 General] jacklebott:
It also had a usable FM radio. That was basically the "beta" nexus device, when Google was still figuring things out
[Nexus 4 General] Jaytronics:
SSD!? LOL! I will think of something. Or ill just whimper like a sad little kid until I get what I want. LOL!

What I would like to do is make a WiFi drive and install it into my car. But,the down side to that is that I use my phone to teather to my Xoom. I use my Xoom as my NAV, and music player for Google music amongst other things for work. And now my company that I work for is sending me an iPad from another company that we work for to do sign off sheets. So I can not connect to all three at the same time. I love tech, yet I hate it and love it and hate it. LOL! Oh well. Maybe I can split the signal with a WiFi extender and use the extender to connect to any device and a WiFi drive. :what:

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Oh by the WAY, My SGS3 is 32Gigs. It is virtually full. I have like 2Gigs left. And that is only the internal storage. All my mSD cards are packed.

I'm telling you apps are not getting any smaller in size. Especially when they implement new features in them. Its a space killer.
[Nexus 4 General] GiantJay:
16gb is plenty for me.
[Nexus 4 General] XxStatiX:
16 GB is just fine as i use an iPod Classic for My Music :p

Waiting for this device so Eagerly :cowboy:
[Nexus 4 General] Sleepy!:
Google just doesn't want us to have local storage.

The Galaxy Nexus made that clear, with the 32GB GNex going extinct soon after release.

Sure, they want us to route all our data through them, but it's not affordable or reliable to do so. And the privacy issues are too vast for me to even get started on. Recently a US court ruled that cloud data is not private property. I don't know the details of this, but I'm sure that it's a judgement that'll stick.

But Google doesn't care about that.

No matter how many people ask for 32/64GB or microSD, they won't get it, as Google's business model relies on data transferring to and from them.

I love Google and their services, but its been a bit jarring to see the same Google fans who accuse Apple zombies of being mindless say that 'Google did it. It had its reasons. So STFU and buy 8GB Nexus 4s or GTFO.'

These days, good games take up 100 MB to 2 GB.

That Full HD IPS screen would look great playing a 1080p or 720p movie. Typically a 720p movie takes up 2-5 GB.

Oh, yeah! My awesome 16 GB Nexus 4 has enough space for 2 movies, 2 games, 100 photos and 100 songs! I love being hobbled by Google.

Too confusing for most people! That's just a lame excuse. But I don't blame them for that. What I DO blame them for is not giving us adequate options with NAND capacity.

I'm running on a 32 GB card that has 6 GB free... and that's after I trim my eBook/etext stash and delete nandroid backups. Memory is always in short supply, but I'd have hoped that it would be adequate, at least.
[Nexus 4 General] dugzino:
Since I'm not the kinda person that terrorises phones with music, 8GB sounds fair enough. :)

With 8 GB I can take lots of pictures and install lots of apps, no need for more.
[Nexus 4 General] Deggy:
I stand corrected. Point still stands.
[Nexus 4 General] yooitschuck:
I do terrorize my phone with music.......id need a 62 gig
[Nexus 4 General] Jaytronics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHFDa9efCQU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Nexus 4 General] Sleepy!:
Here's an idea: Instead of spamming the Nexus 4 xda board, why don't all of us who want Google to hear our opinion go and give our feedback to Matias Duarte, the chief of Android design and on the official Google Nexus hardware page.

At least there, someone from Google will see the rather strong opinions we all share regarding device memory and other specifications.

And let's leave the Nexus 4 board to those buying or developing for the Nexus 4.

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Matias Duarte's Google+ profile: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/114892667463719782631/about?cbp=1d7e5ii6iy822

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The Official Google Nexus hardware page: https://plus.google.com/+Nexus/posts/QLETQNekJ6D#+Nexus/posts
[Nexus 4 General] anirudh412:
What size?

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[Nexus 4 General] raptir:
I voted 32GB, but I'll still be buying the 16GB Nexus 4. I can manage with 16GB as long as I'm somewhat careful about my storage. If I had 32GB I wouldn't need to worry about it at all.
[Nexus 4 General] ThunderWolf78:
Haven't voted yet but would vote 16gb, I jumped onto the S3 16Gb and added 16Gb sdcard, got utterly disappointed and swapped it for a brand new Gnex with only 16Gb, most of which is unused and I still have my music on it and enough 40min tv episodes to last me through a week of commuting. 16Gb will be plenty.

Tapatalked from my h4x0r3d up Maguro.
[Nexus 4 General] Drzfr3shboialex:
I'll be happy with 64gb, satisfied with 32gb, and would have to adjust with 16gb.
[Nexus 4 General] DroidDavi:
Once i got my gnex I adjusted to 16. I keep most my things in the cloud and stream all my music. While it would be nice to have more its a waste for me. All I had was a bunch of junk when I had a lot of space. I would have a bunch of ROMs ,apps , music , and backups I never used. Its more than doable people and if you want this phone you just have to deal
[Nexus 4 General] emuneee:
I can get by relatively well with the 16GB on my GNex. Ideally, I think I'd be 100% comfortable with 32GB however.
[Nexus 4 General] idividebyzero:
Im going for 8gb, Ive always hovered around 6gbs on my 16gb sdcard (although that includes a full backup, a huge game I dont play, and other crap I dont need). I dont put videos on my phone and dont load up my whole music collection. My music folder is a little over 3gbs.

Actually I forgot about the "gb shrinkage" scam, it wont be a full 8gbs, which would work well for me, it will be quite a bit less since 8gbs is never 8gbs. Anyone know how much usable space you get from 8gbs? I know there will be like 700mbs for the OS but what about the unadvertised shrinkage?
[Nexus 4 General] Backslash10:
Would have bought a 32 GB on I really don't see why they have a 8gb version I mean 16gb is the minimum I can deal with. I believe it must have been a price concern issue or something.
[Nexus 4 General] Cuyi02:
I had a 16GB iPhone 4 (I was lost but now I'm found) and now a 16GB Nexus S and I've never needed more. I've always had between 2-3 GB of free space.
[Nexus 4 General] PA212:
while I know most people want more and more space, 8gb would easily suffice for me
[Nexus 4 General] donec:
The Wi-Drive from Kingston will stream to 3 devices at the same time and it has passthrough for internet and wifi access to it. It comes in 16, 32 and 64GB.
[Nexus 4 General] Antebios:
As with everyone else, I took a look at what is on my phone. Total available is 8 GB internal, 64 GB on micro sd card. Total, I'm using about 10.61 GB, and about 4.84 GB are TWRP backups. So, I'm actually using about 6 GB (lots of pics and videos from the camera). I can squeeze my life into 8 GB, I'd breath a whole lot better at 16 GB (the sweet spot). I have about 59 GB that I'm not even using.
[Nexus 4 General] _guzzler_:
Today I did an excercise with my LG G2x to see if 8Gb will be enough:

Here is my current setup:

1) Internal storage: 1.48GB (788 MB used, it has OS and sys apps)

2) Internal SD card: 5.22GB (4GB used)

3) SDCard: 32GB (12GB used)

The goal of this experiment was to see if I can do without 32GB sd card as I will have about the same storage space as 8gb N4.

1.48 + 5.22 = 6.7Gb

And N4 has 7.45GB (Not 8GB, as 8GB is in decimal system which equates to 7.45GB)

8,000,000,000 / (1024 x 1024 x 1024) = 7.45Gb

Anyways, assuming N4 will be left with 5.92GB after OS and System apps (people from N7 8Gb have this much available).

I deleted all possible crap from the Internal SD card (#2) but the "Android" folder was huge, over a gb. Plus there were tons of other folders created by apps equating to 600 mb.

Mind you I dont have much useful stuff in my 32gb sd card. So I moved my camera pictures and music to Internal SD card and moved backups to 32gb SD card.

So now I could barely fit everything in my Internal SDcard: its 5.11GB full. With no crap: Only has Music, camera taken pics and 700mb of videos and ofcourse "data" from android and app data.

So if I add 788MB from the Internal storage (from #1) which has OS I will be at 5.8 GB

That leaves me with 100 mb in my brand new N4 for taking what 50 pics? Maybe? Or 25 Photosphers?

For those interested: I am running clean lean CM7 with 32 apps, 2 of which are games.
[Nexus 4 General] desarenezitic:
I could use 8GB version no problem I think. I must be old fashioned but I carry a dedicated MP3 player and just use my phone for apps, photos etc instantly upload to Dropbox, docs on Google Drive. Any backups I move to my external hard drive or upload to Dropbox when on WiFi.
[Nexus 4 General] bmwjnky:
16GB version for me. What I consider to be bare minimum of music/apps on my phone I'm using just over of 9GB on my Nexus S. I could thin out my music and pictures a little but I'd still be really close to if not still over the 8GB mark. Plus I use my phone as a USB drive sometimes and need to transfer files from home to work that are over 2GB sometimes so the 8GB version would not work for me.
[Nexus 4 General] @rbiter:
Don't forget, you'll get stopped by system because you'll need approximately ~500MB overhead for the system to have room to do it's thing.

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[Nexus 4 General] _guzzler_:
Yes. Point i am trying to make is 8 gb is not enough. Close to 1.5 gb are gone between android folder and other app folders. This is often disregarded.
[Nexus 4 General] zelendel:
Well that depends on what your using it for. For pure business 8gb would be fine. Just not anything else

Sent from Arkham
[Nexus 4 General] woody296:
I can see hookers and drug dealers using the n4 for business. Legit businesses will be using that phone from the other company.
[Nexus 4 General] MaxCarnage:
I stream literally all media either from a service like Netflix or from my server at home, my pictures are uploaded automatically so I don't keep them on my phone long, I have 130GB available on my Google Drive, and I won't be downloading ROMs and stuff because it's stock Android anyway, so I don't see why I need a lot of space on my phone. I don't download tons of apps/games either. 8GB is plenty for me; I went for the 16GB Nexus 7 when it was pre-released and I have never even come close to touching 8GB on it.
[Nexus 4 General] mrhaddan:
I discovered the photo upload like 2 months ago, and before that I had 8 GB of photos on my device. I kept 3 GB of music on my device, then finally uploaded those to Play Music. I'd rather have the music on my device because I live in an area that doesn't get great data connection. 16GB is enough for me though.
[Nexus 4 General] dontex:
32GB at Least... that's what I have on my Sprint Galaxy Nexus so 16GB and no LTE and a non removable battery is like a downgrade for me...and I store ALOT of Music...and don't like streaming....but would really love a 62GB model..in 2012 I really wish Google wouldn't force us to make storage decisions like this...because I really love the Nexus Line...:(
[Nexus 4 General] m11kkaa:
depends on what u want todo with the device(in this case a phone).

for Tablets you can't get enough if you watch 1080p movies.

On phones mostly big games like those from gameloft will need much space.

The Cloud doesn't make sense for big data you need often. This will just waste your data plan.
[Nexus 4 General] FTMDan:
Getting a 16GB one. I have unlimited data (Which is truly unlimited) and I am allowed to tether.
[Nexus 4 General] m11kkaa:
How much do you pay for your unlimited data plan and where you got it?

And do you have other flats, too?
[Nexus 4 General] j1mmyg88:
for me, 16gb will be fine. my music is already on the Google Music (got it via vpn setup in UK), got 85GB of Google Drive storage, about 75GB of Dropbox and 50GB of Box storage, so for me I will be fine. Also have unlimited data, and that can be used for tethering too.
[Nexus 4 General] MattSkeet:
I'd really like to buy 8gb but due to me travelling abroad quite often I have to have offline satnav, therefore, it will take about 2-3gb itself. All my photos are stored on Google+ same goes for music but I better safe than sorry.

I remember that one my 16gb nexus I had about 7gb left (although there was that one application, that was taking a lot of space and I was unable to locate and remove it).

All together that's about 6gb taken. 16gb nexus had about 13gb space out of the box. Problem lies with that 8gb one how much space will it have out of the box.

Anyone here with 8gb nexus 7
[Nexus 4 General] desarenezitic:
Nexus 7 has about 5.2 GB usable out the box I believe.
[Nexus 4 General] Mr.Mischief:
16GB would probably work, but I would buy the 32GB just to be safe.
[Nexus 4 General] kevin619:
I need 32 GB but 16 is also my preferable choice.
[Nexus 4 General] [hfm]:
I'd buy a 32G if it was no more than $429. That said I'm fine with 16G on my GNex and I'll be happy with it on the N4.
[Nexus 4 General] P00t:
8gb is good enough. Everytime my phone is full of videos and pictures, ill just move it to y coputer
[Nexus 4 General] r1m3:
I could live with 8gb, but I think 16 is ideal. I keep photos and a few mp3 files on my phone, but thats pretty much it. I'm going for the 16gb version.
[Nexus 4 General] _guzzler_:
I did some searching on google and found that the very early leaks of N4 have 5.67Gb available after OS and 5.42 after apps and media.

Link:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...044981&page=1&ndsp=33&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0,i:87
[Nexus 4 General] Damanis1:
16 is all i need, but i would feel more comfortable with 24 gigs( what i have now 8in 16 sd)
[Nexus 4 General] llblwskydrgn:
I'm really torn about this... I currently have a Samsung Vibrant with 16gb where 12.7gb is usable space. I'm only using about 3gb of storage for apps, etc. I'm wondering if when I upgrade to the Nexus 4, I'll be apt to put more media on my phone since it will be a better quicker phone which is more "fun" to use. From the looks of it, the 16gb would sell out quicker if anything sells out, am I right to assume this?
[Nexus 4 General] PlanBSTi:
Idk. I've only downloaded 2 games on my phone so far. But I've uninstalled got bored of it. Haven't found a good one.

It is a very fast phone though. Games barely have loading screens.

I've used 2gb on my 16gb. Lol.
[Nexus 4 General] 309041291a:
16 GB is perfect for me. I go through and delete stuff on my phone all the time. The most I use is 11 GB