[smooches680]

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[storino03]

all depends if you want to spend the extra $50 for a 32GB capacity. Other than that, the phones are identical.

[smooches680]

Alright thank you so much.

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[crow11ad]

Get the 32 gig...you will not be sorry.

[shafer0219]

My thinking was go big or go home. 32gb White.

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[Sykotc]

Twice the space for only $50 more, well worth it!! 32gig!!

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[jerseygirl]

I doubt if I will ever use close to all the space available...but, you never know! So, I went with the 32gb. Why not? It's only $50 bucks more and may make a difference in trade in value if/when that time comes.

[web0rama]

better to have the extra space & not need it than to need it & not have it!

[coogrrr94]

Another option is to buy the 16GB phone then buy a 64GB SD card for around $50-$60 from Amazon.

[smooches680]

Well I went ahead and got the 16gb white S3 and got a 32gb card, also have 50gb on my drop box account. So that is more than enough space for me. But thanks all for the suggestions.

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[Disturbd1]

I can't fathom why someone would buy the 32gb unit. Not when there is expandable storage with the microSD. That's like buying the largest cup available when they all have refills. It's just greedy and stupid, IMO. 16gb is a profound improvement over my original Evo 4G, and even if it wasn't, I have my 16gb microSD card, and if THAT proves not to be enough...I can always go and buy a larger card for a much cheaper price than paying the extra money for the internal storage.

[GrooveRite]

I don't think I received my 50gb for my dropbox. Is it because I signed up with my existing account??? Should I have created a new account in order to have received it?? I'll factory reinstall if I have too!!

[Pre-dawn raid]

I can't fathom why someone would buy the 32gb unit. Not when there is expandable storage with the microSD. That's like buying the largest cup available when they all have refills. It's just greedy and stupid, IMO. 16gb is a profound improvement over my original Evo 4G, and even if it wasn't, I have my 16gb microSD card, and if THAT proves not to be enough...I can always go and buy a larger card for a much cheaper price than paying the extra money for the internal storage.

See these are my thoughts exactly! Why does one need the 32GB version when it has expandable memory>> am I missiing something here?

[coogrrr94]

I don't think I received my 50gb for my dropbox. Is it because I signed up with my existing account??? Should I have created a new account in order to have received it?? I'll factory reinstall if I have too!!

I used an existing account and still received the 50 gigs. I received an email from dropbox 2 or 3 days after activating the phone.

[camiller]

I can't fathom why someone would buy the 32gb unit. Not when there is expandable storage with the microSD. That's like buying the largest cup available when they all have refills. It's just greedy and stupid, IMO. 16gb is a profound improvement over my original Evo 4G, and even if it wasn't, I have my 16gb microSD card, and if THAT proves not to be enough...I can always go and buy a larger card for a much cheaper price than paying the extra money for the internal storage.

See these are my thoughts exactly! Why does one need the 32GB version when it has expandable memory>> am I missiing something here?

Kind of depends on the power consumption of the card vs. the built in memory. Without testing I couldn't say for sure but you might get better battery life in the internal memory.

As an example, on my old Palm T|X I could read ebooks for days between charges when using only the internal memory, but with a SD card installed it dropped to hours because accessing the external card used significantly more power than the internal flash memory.

Now I know that the technology has gotten better over the years, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was still a measurable difference in power usage, and therefore battery life, when a external card is installed.

Additionally, you max out (with what is currently available) at 96GB with 32GB internal and 64GB card vs. 80GB with only 16GB internal and 64GB card. That might be important for some, probably not for me but for some. Personally I'll probably get the 16GB and a 32GB card. I'm fairly certain that will meet my needs, but I would not assume that it would meet everyone's needs.

And I always get the largest cup

[ab304945]

I can't fathom why someone would buy the 32gb unit. Not when there is expandable storage with the microSD. That's like buying the largest cup available when they all have refills. It's just greedy and stupid, IMO. 16gb is a profound improvement over my original Evo 4G, and even if it wasn't, I have my 16gb microSD card, and if THAT proves not to be enough...I can always go and buy a larger card for a much cheaper price than paying the extra money for the internal storage.

ya, i will be getting the 16gb one, a huge jump from my optimus s with only like 160 mb of storage.

[Disturbd1]

I bet if you took a poll, well over 90% of smartphone users use their internal memory primarily for A) Apps, and B) Music. With cloud storage and streaming available for the latter, that leaves an option to save quite a bit of money on expandable external storage, or additional internal storage. Clearly the reason they give 2 options is to make more money, it has nothing to do with demand. As I mentioned before, if I could get by with my measly <1gb internal storage on my Evo...I think it's safe to say storage isn't really even a gripe when it comes to our phones. We've all had the "oh crap, I need to delete an app to free up space for a new one" moments, but overall I think it's the least of anyone's worries. As for a difference in battery life, it would be miniscule at best. I applaud Sammy for giving the option, because it simply means more money in their pocket. Oh, and since ICS and beyond seems to introduce the ability to attach external devices, including external storage...the need for a microSD card to be huge is lessened even more (though it would obviously be a hassle to lug around an external drive with you, it would be cool to have for long road trips for easy attachment to listen to your music library).

[bdmridgback]

Only thing is... If you install alot of apps, they get stored on the phone and so far no way to transfer to SD. With a 16gb after the phone takes what it needs to run you will be left with about 11-12gb to save apps to. A 32gb version will leave you with 27-28gb for apps. The SD card will be for Pictures, Videos, Music... So I opted for the 32gb and a 64gb SD card and I still have my 50gb of Dropbox too.

On my EVO and S2 I could save apps to SD card... Cant with S3...unless I have heard wrong or missed something new.

A person could run out of 11-12gb in app storage pretty fast.



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[Sykotc]

No matter which size of S3 u got, you can transfer to extsd manually through the my files app.

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[coogrrr94]

So can you transfer apps to the extsd card via Myfiles? I know you can install apps from the extsd card.

[Brett636]

I went for the 32gb for the same reasons listed above. My biggest complaint about my EVO was its incredibly small internal storage. I would get a notification every couple of weeks telling me I was running out of space on the phone, and the only way to get it to go away was to uninstall apps and or clear the cach of face book or the web browser. It got old after a while and it didn't matter how big my SD card was because I had moved all the apps that could be moved. I was going to look at the new EVO LTE, but when I discovered it only allowed 2gb for apps when it had 16 gb of internal storage I knew the same problem would arise at some point. Plus the extra $50 is not a big deal when you get double the storage.

[smooches680]

I called Sprint and they stated that on there Samsung galaxy s3 phones you can only use up to 32gb on the sd card, can't use 64gb memory card.

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[web0rama]

I think that's the max according to the spec sheet but from what I've read everybody who has put a 64 gb card into the phone has had good luck with it working.

[camiller]

I called Sprint and they stated that on there Samsung galaxy s3 phones you can only use up to 32gb on the sd card, can't use 64gb memory card.

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Yep that is what they say. They also said the same thing for previous generation phones even though the 64GB still worked. Just because that is what they say doesn't mean it is true. There are in fact a number of people that have a 64GB card installed and are using it successfully. I think that part of the reason that they say up 32GB is because 64GB cards are by default formatted to exFat format instead of Fat32. So out of the package a 64GB may not work until you re-format it. Part of it may also be trademark. 64GB implies SDXC where 32GB is the max for SDHC. They may not have wanted to pay to use the SDXC trademark. Just guessing there.

Regardless of what Sprint says and what Samsung's documentation says, most 64GB SDXC cards will work just fine.

[smooches680]

Thank you so much for this info and I will go ahead and get a 64gb card. Can you tell me if it is hard to reformat a 64gb card? I am a female and don't understand any of that. Thanks for any advice

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