WTB: 1TB Phone

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graham007

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#307170 25-Sep-2023 22:55

I am in the market for a 1 tb phone. Still on the fence between s23 ultra 1tb or 14 pro max 1 tb

If anyone is in the similar boat of selling may be please DM me.

Will prefer if you have warranty left with receipt paperwork

Thanks .

phrozenpenguin

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#3131886 25-Sep-2023 23:10

Depending on what you need it for, the new just announced iPhone Pro can record footage direct to USB-C attached storage. So for video work you don't need a 1Tb handset anymore.

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#3131890 25-Sep-2023 23:41

Just also another thing - 1tb is a hell of a lot of data to lose in one go. I don't 100% know what you're needing that storage for but as @phrozenpenguin states even most Android phones will allow you to hook up an external SSD like a Samsung T7 to them. You've also got cloud storage too which isn't badly priced these days.

If you're storing up to 1tb worth of content on it all the time then perhaps consider using cloud storage instead.

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graham007

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#3131899 26-Sep-2023 06:46

Am currently using aprox 380 GB data

Assume apps and system data is 50gb , that takes me to 430g

So 512g won't be enough, if I had to hold the phone for 3 yr

And that's why I need 1tb

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#3131909 26-Sep-2023 07:24

If you have a 2tb iCloud account @ $16/month then you can get away with less storage and use the photos optimisation feature. I have years of photos and a decent number of videos but am still using less than 150Gb on my 250Gb iPhone as my older photos and videos on the iPhone have their quality reduced automagically if you enable the option. I can get the full quality version back any time though in practice this never happens on my phone. I just download the full quality versions occasionally on my computer.

Have a look here and search for Optimize. How to free up iPhone storage without deleting your apps or photographs | AppleInsider

In any case, if keeping this data is important to you please ensure you have a good backup strategy. I had a business owner client have a go at me about ten years ago when his phone went overboard. "You take care of our backups!" Yes, we back up your server. Not once in the last 5 years have you asked me about backing up photos on your mobile phone.

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#3131920 26-Sep-2023 07:45

graham007:

Am currently using aprox 380 GB data

Assume apps and system data is 50gb , that takes me to 430g

So 512g won't be enough, if I had to hold the phone for 3 yr

And that's why I need 1tb

and here I am rocking my 64GB work iPhone XR. :) (15PM on pre-order!)

Anyhow, iOS has some pretty great storage optimisation if you have iCloud storage.

I was able to downgrade from 256GB to 64GB without much issues as the photos are not all fully downloaded onto the device.

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#3131925 26-Sep-2023 08:04

I don't keep more than 64GB of data on my 128GB phone. I offload photos and videos to my PC for culling and storage, from there they're put into backups, which are cloud / offsite hard drive. Most of the space I use is for videos to keep my son happy places like cafes.

Perhaps a similar strategy could save you some money on a phone with a ton of storage.

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#3131926 26-Sep-2023 08:06

Cloud storage is fine unless you rely on wifi to do the backing up. Recently I was lucky that the content I needed was on removable storage as the old phone died before getting home.

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#3131933 26-Sep-2023 08:28

1tb S23U here.

Go big or go home 😂

I enjoy not worrying about taking loads of high res videos.

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#3131934 26-Sep-2023 08:32

I take quite a bit of hi res video on my A72 Samsung and not filled it yet - but I don't tend to leave media sitting on the phone, I move it off to my home server soon as I can.

1TB is hell of a lot of data unless you plan on storing a few 4k movie rips etc ;)

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#3131939 26-Sep-2023 09:03

Hey mate, so I was in Hong Kong last month and had a look around what geek like me loved there which is pc / mobile stuff.

And I actually noticed there’s quite a bit of Chinese phone with 1tb on the market there already, realme (basically sub brand of Oppo) has this model called realme neo gt 5 (?), it’s has up to 1tb storag, Google etc as it has international rom, it was only going for like 2800HKD which is roughly 600NZD. They didn’t skim out on the hardware too as it’s sporting the 8+ gen 1 and all sort of good stuff.

Then there’s more well known brand to us such as Redmi (Xiaomi) and oneplus, these 2 brands has like a ram race and pushed to 24gb ram + 1tb storage with flagship specs both for under 5000hkd.

What I am trying to say is if you can wait, I think we will most likely see more of these 1tb phones popping up in NZ in the future, and it might not be exclusive to Samsung/Apple where we have to pay a huge premium for them.

graham007

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#3131941 26-Sep-2023 09:05

kvunqad: Hey mate, so I was in Hong Kong last month and had a look around what geek like me loved there which is pc / mobile stuff.

And I actually noticed there’s quite a bit of Chinese phone with 1tb on the market there already, realme (basically sub brand of Oppo) has this model called realme neo gt 5 (?), it’s has up to 1tb storag, Google etc as it has international rom, it was only going for like 2800HKD which is roughly 600NZD. They didn’t skim out on the hardware too as it’s sporting the 8+ gen 1 and all sort of good stuff.

Then there’s more well known brand to us such as Redmi (Xiaomi) and oneplus, these 2 brands has like a ram race and pushed to 24gb ram + 1tb storage with flagship specs both for under 5000hkd.

What I am trying to say is if you can wait, I think we will most likely see more of these 1tb phones popping up in NZ in the future, and it might not be exclusive to Samsung/Apple where we have to pay a huge premium for them.

Quite valid points and yes I have been thinking of smaller brands . Mainly OnePlus .

The ace2 pro comes with 24g ram and 1tb storage . But it's not available yet