Question How do people cope with just 128GB of storage?

[gomezz]

Today's new phones seem to come with just 128GB of inbuilt storage as standard with no slot for an additional memory card. I am scratching my head as to how people manage with so little under provision.

I currently have an S20 with 128GB+256GB of which 200GB is currently used. I am not big on photos and videos and that storage is largely my own music library and podcast downloads. For me, the cloud and streaming is not a viable, happy option as I tend to move around the countryside through areas of patchy mobile data coverage.

Yes, I could go pay the exorbitant premium for a model with more inbuilt storage but that seems like arm-twisting to me. There doesn't seem to be much of an incentive for me to change my phone.

 

[B. Diddy]

128 GB is still way more than enough for me, but I'm all in with cloud storage and streaming. I'm usually at around 50% full.

 

[Bkdodger1]

I'm good too though I have the space

 

[dangerousfen]

I've got 256gb on my Xiaomi Note 12 Pro Plus which is fine for my music and photos but I couldn't cope with only 128gb.
Why on earth did they decide to get rid of SD cards, I can't believe that they cost much to implement.
They're also so much faster for transfers using a laptop.