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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This is interesting... I would pretty much consider anyone who gets those things confused as being borderline technology illiterate at this point.
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Yeah... but I feel like the inmates took over the asylum about half a decade ago. Everything is jumbled up and messed up now from layman terms, so I don't bother trying unless I run into someone who can speak essentially in pure technical.
I use them interchangeably as a bad habit now. I find you'll also run into enough technologically illiterate people who will actually argue with you about being an uppity #######, so I just straight up don't bother anymore. It's in the same realm as "literally" for me now. My wife is one of these people. "Why do you need to be so specific with your terms. You basically understand what I/they mean anyways."
I think the issue is that a property computer uses storage for hard drive and memory for RAM. But in tablets and phones, they don't really advertise RAM at all, so most people end up somehow using storage and memory as interchangeable terms.
When dealing with things at a high level, it's RAM vs SSD/HDD; MHz, Ghz; MB, GB and TB. We've gotten so close in some senses that it isn't as crazy as a faux pas anymore. The other day I was looking at M.2 specs and it's listed as 2400 MB/s; 3500 MB/s and 7000 MB/s sequential read/write speeds. Reading this and with the argument as to what constitutes a gigabyte (1000 MB vs 1024 MB) blah, blah, blah...
Storage and memory are IMO layman terms anyways.
Don't even get started on the "best image" questions from some people. "Do you mean best camera on the phone or best screen?" vs "The one that looks the best when you video call/the one that will look better on my Instagram when I make posts from my phone/sometimes if I need to do live clips." I'm reminded of the Simpson's spelling bee and expecting to be wrong no matter what I say at this point... "I don't know whether the weather will improve." I often ask what internet speeds/data speeds these individuals have to be incredulously told they thought I knew about technology... but obviously not if I don't even know something basic like this about phones...
I grew up aiding the era of people who though you could destroy a DVD/CD by accident if you loaded it wrong (ie: PTSD from destroying VHS/tape).
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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
Thank you to everyone who has offered advice and opinions. I was 60-40 between an iPhone and Samsung but am going to go with the 13 Pro that you recommended. I think I’ll wait until late September or early October as I think the new phone should be coming out and then-prices of the older phone should drop a bit (I’m told).
Our trip starts Oct. 7 and I expect to take thousands of photos. I just have to decide how much storage I need. Any advice on that would be appreciated.
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TL;DR - Buy as early as possible to get used to phone and get accessories for it. I'd assume or your situation, 256GB + 50GB iCloud or 128GB + 50GB or 200GB iCloud would be the decision you should make.
My assumption is that 128GB + iCloud upload + compression once you exceed 80% usage is likely enough for your needs going forward. Anything over that is likely overkill. Price difference is approx 128/256 GB (About $100-150 difference) and 50/200GB iCloud ($1.30/$3.99 per month).
Typically, 256GB+ with/without iCloud is basically only if you are lazy to manually download media and/or are usually near your storage limit and cannot iCloud for periods at a time. Honestly, you'd have to do insane amounts of photos and videos (like 8000-10K photos/videos per year on a sustained basis without wanting to iCloud too much of the media) to really justify 256GB+ and if you look at your current usage on your XR, it'll give you an idea of what you've done to date. If current storage below 50%, do 128GB. If over 50%, maybe you can justify 256GB.
In all seriousness though, download media to a computer/make back ups regularly and iCloud. The amount of people who would lose all the pictures they've ever taken for the past several years+ if their phone was lost/destroyed is way too high. $50 a year ish for 200GB to reduce that risk is basically nothing, especially if it means reducing the risk priceless memories are not lost. In reality, you should also download the pics from your phone to a computer and back them up on top of iCloud... but people are lazy/forgetful and #### happens (ie: backup schedule borks; future Cloud overwrite issues/hacks etc.). Don't rely on only retaining one copy of the high quality media.
Don't worry about Apple price drops. I think it's typically not really a huge amount $50-100 and often delayed by several months/in the form of a gift card/headphones etc. that might be relatively useless to you. The prices are typically adjusted and pretty close a few months before release anyways IIRC.
You want to make sure you give yourself a week to get used to the phone before you go. Make sure you get the accessories you need as well. This way, if you're waiting on some accessories and whatnot, (ie: selfie sticks, phone cases, screen protectors etc.) that you're not potentially missing receiving or applying them within a few days prior to your trip. If you're migrating from the XR, I think most of the new gestures and whatnot you're familiar with already (unlike a migration from an 8 with a button), but I cannot say for certain there's completely no differences between the two that might trip you up for the first little bit. Even if it drops $50-100, it's sometimes not worth being ready before a big trip.
On iOS, get used for certain things to default to video, then clicking on the shutter for pics + video when the video is recording. The pictures taken in video mode might not be as good as those taken in photo mode, panorama or portrait mode, but a video with some decent pictures is often going to be so much better than just pictures of a trip/event.
