Re: Upgrade to 16GB Model?
Given competent SdCard management, a fast SdCard would certainly solve all of your problems. Unfortunately, Google and friends don't want to architect a competent way of controlling SdCard memory because they are (and have been making) billions of $$$ each year by selling new phones to people who just need another 8 GB of memory. It is like selling new cars to people who just need a new set of tires -- incredibly profitable!! As such, you can expect that an SdCard could, but won't, solve all of your problems. But it will help. You probably can, and certainly should, store all of your music, videos, pictures, and backup data onto an SdCard. I believe that the alternative solution (de-bloating) requires rooting your phone. Phone manufacturers working in alliance with their ISP buddies have conspired to fill the world's phones to the gills with unnecessary/commercial bloatware. After rooting, you can flash a custom ROM (eg. CyanogenMod) from which the bloat has been pre-removed. Or better still, you can use an app to perform the same service. I recently purchased an app called "Uninstall" (which I tentatively recommend) . "Uninstall" not only lists your phone's apps, but also grades them into 3 classes: "could remove", "should keep", and "key module". I used it to remove nearly all of the "could remove" apps and several "should keep" apps from my SG4. Be sure to point the app's "recycle bin" to your phone's SdCard before removing any apps.