Storage problems on Android have been a constant on our mobile for a long time. The evolution of mobile apps and memory units has meant that applications increasingly take up more space, while the higher quality of video and photos means that we need more space to house our memories. All this causes a 64 GB mobile to begin to suffer certain limitations in 2020.
Anyone buying a new Android phone is sure to pay special attention to the camera, screen size, design, and price, but perhaps you should consider investing a little more to get some extra storage.
And it is that in 2020, each time we meet before with the hateful message that there is not enough internal storage and we are forced to save our content in the cloud or on a PC or to start deleting applications to alleviate this lack of memory, by less for a while. The main problem of our mobiles and that few have yet discovered is the amount of space that the system files occupy, as the Pc World media recalls .
Does 64 GB go so far?
The example is simple: the 64 GB of a Pixel 4 is almost full with 2.7 GB of photos, 1.4 GB of music, 6.6 GB of games, 25 GB for 170 applications and, most strikingly, 25 GB of system data . The bad thing is that this situation is repeated in almost all Android phones released to the market over the last 12 months. Following successive updates to Android 10, system storage has been taking up more and more space . This is the storage dedicated by each mobile to the system files:
- LG V60: 28GB
- OnePlus 7T: 27GB
- Pixel 4 XL: 25 GB
- Galaxy S20 Ultra: 20.4GB
- OnePlus 8 Pro: 20 GB
- Galaxy S10: 19 GB
- Pixel 3a: 15 GB
In a 64 G B smartphone, the system files could consume up to 30 percent of their allocated space, that is, even more than Windows 10 occupies in a normal PC. And as much as you clean the mobile or clear the cache, this space will always be dedicated to the system, so when you buy a mobile with this storage, go thinking that you really have around 40-50 real GB available.
And really this space is not so difficult to fill, because with a few videos recorded in 4K, Raw photos in high resolution, hosting a few music discs in the mobile and installing dozens of apps, we will be putting the internal memory of our mobile to the limit. For this reason it is important, if you do not have compatibility with MicroSD cards that give you a break from storage, buy phones with at least 128 GB of capacity.
Why doesn’t this happen on iPhone?
The fact that our phones work with large system files does not mean that we must occupy it in our mobile and we have the perfect example in the competition. Apple critics have always pointed out that Apple continues to sell 64GB models with no MicroSD expansion option but when we note that iOS files take up only 5.3GB of space on the 2020 iPhone SE and 6GB of space on the iPhone 11, all you have to do is shut up. This is a fifth of what Android occupies in a Pixel 4 considering that the system updates arrive as fast and install as quickly on the iPhone 11 as on the Pixel 4.
Source>PCWorld