256GB seems fine for me. I tend to have everything in the cloud in case I lose or damage my phone so actual use of the “hard drive” is fairly limited. I don’t really like playing such games on a phone and that’s the only scenario I can think of where I’d need so much space.

The answer, is that I want the Galaxy S Ultra line to have an SD card slot.

I’ve currently got 60gb used on my phone, and I’ve been very lazy with keeping things tidy. So I think a 128gb device would facilitate all my storage needs from a phone.

I guess I wouldn’t buy something with less than 128gb, to answer the second question.

All my data hoarding happens on my desktop + NAS, I don’t consider my phone a safe place to keep anything I care about as it can be stolen or lost or broken so incredibly easily.

The ideal amount of storage is enough that I literally never need to think about it, never need to delete anything, and never need to use cloud services for things that could realistically be local.

It’s hard to say what that would be because I’ve never had a phone that even came close.

The largest phone I’ve owned was 256GB. That was “fine”, but it was NOT big enough that I could fundamentally change my habits. For example, I don’t carry my entire music collection on my phone. I don’t even do that on my laptop anymore since the advent of SSDs.

I have a 128GB phone now and it sucks. I’ve set up a one-way copy to my home desktop with Syncthing so I can safely delete photos, videos, and screen recordings from my phone. I need to do this frequently.

With the standard price-gouging in the industry, I will probably settle for 256 with my next phone. If prices were reasonable, I’d go for 1TB at least.

I miss SD cards but there are no viable options with slots anymore.

64gb on the phone has been working for me for a long while now, though I did recently update my Micro SD to 64gb so I could save both my music and my books to it.

I’m currently at a slim 132GB over the course of a year, and that includes a good size library of RPG pdfs. I should probably save more music to my phone to save on bandwidth. I feel kind of uncomfortable going bellow 512GB storage but I clearly don’t need most of that.

I keep the bare minimum on my phone (something to read, music) and use very few apps, so 64GB could be enough for me, but I have other requirements for my phone and those often collide with storage so I never find anything with less than 128GB.

I keep backups on my PC, and that’s where I funnel my funds for storage lol

I had a 256GB phone and after 1 year had used less than half the space, without ever deleting anything, so when i upgraded this time I saved money and got the 128GB model. I sync my photos/videos to my NAS so can purge those from my phone at any time to save space. That’s really the only thing that takes up any significant storage.

My phone has 256GB storage and 512GB microSD. I definitely wouldn’t buy one with less than that, and even so I usually try to store redundant data on the microSD, data that can easily be redownloaded if anything happens to it, as it is a more fragile storage mechanism. Ideally I’d want my next phone to have at least 512GB internal storage, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to find one like that that also has everything else I want.

I feel 64gb should be the minimum. I had 32gb phone which I used for 6yrs and I used it without SD card. I could run it that long because I had unlimited gphotos backup which came with a custom ROM and I always has to clean it every month or so to have around 2gb free. Now I upgraded to 128gb, let’s see how it goes. Idk if I should opt to an SD card.

I’ve used 85GB of the 128GB of my current phone after using it for 2 years and never deleting anything. I suppose if I took a lot more video I might burn through it quicker.

My own usage is like 20-30GB in my experience (not including the OS and system stuff). So I’d say 128GB since the OS these days uses a ton of space.

My ebooks all live on my kindle, but they really don’t use much space at all either way.

If I needed to store stuff like games or something I’d just use a flash drive or portable SSD, much cheaper than buying a phone with more storage.

Depending on the needs. I have 32gb internal storage and its more than enough for me. But if I were recording lot of high quality videos and install lot of games, then this would be easily not enough anymore. But in today’s day and age a 512gb micro sd card is cheap. There is no problem for me being limited by space.

It’s insane to me how expensive the new top phones like iPhone are and how much space they offer. Man 500 Dollar for a 1TB internal space is insanity. For 500 Dollar I could buy a Steam Deck or Switch or Playstation 5, if I was interested into gaming and still would have the same iphone 16 Pro with 128gb storage instead. Yes I know its not the same when comparing stuff like that, but this shows how insane the prices are. And Apple can keep the price this high, because they don’t give you the option to use micro sd cards and you support this buy buying the most expensive version. So they keep doing it.

The maximum storage capacity for internal storage I would consider depends on the price. I would not limit myself to 32gb if the price for 1tb was the same. I’m not a heavy phone user and would consider 32gb with my next purchase, if it was considerably cheaper. But a micro sd card slot is required for that.

Really depends what you’re chasing. If you want overall performance then 256GB is the better choice. It’s quite a bit faster than 128GB in terms of actual physical chip performance. There are diminishing returns in performance once you go above 256GB.

I survived on an 8gb storage phone with a 32gb sdcard for many years.