Is 16GB iphone 5s enough for me?

I wanna get the 16GB over the 32GB just for the fact that its way cheaper. But would it be enough for me? I'm 15, and wanna try a iphone 5s as my first smartphone.

i would have around 1500 songs. Tops. And i could shorten it.

20 ish apps maybe 25 i don't know, i never had a smartphone.

500 photos tops, i would load them onto my pc. And delete them from my phone.

no movies or anything, that just takes up way to much unnecessary space.

would 16GB be enough storage for me.

"i would have around 1500 songs. Tops. And i could shorten it."

Would you need to have all of your songs on the phone? You should only have on your phone those songs you're reasonably expecting to listen to.

You should NOT consider your phone a form of storage. The fact that iPhones do not really allow you to copy from them, that they can be lost or stolen or damaged and that they will eventually be replaced - all of those factors strongly suggest you that you keep your music backed up elsewhere.

Also, there's no way to judge how much space your songs will take up simply by the number of songs. If you're 1,5K songs average 4/5 minutes, they will take up 50% more space than an equal number of 3 minute songs.

Song length is a better indicator.

On my iPod, I've got 32 hours of music, taking up about 2 GB.

"20 ish apps maybe 25 i don't know, i never had a smartphone. "

You should still know that different apps take up different amounts of space.

Assuming 8 megabytes per song (4 minutes at 256 Kbps, roughly), that'll be 12 GB for music alone.

Remember, out of the 16 GB, some of it will be used by iOS. I've not an iPhone to check, but I'd be surprised that out of 16 GB, you'd be able to use more than 14.

So short answer, not really.

Of course you could re-encode those songs to 128 Kbps, which iTunes will do on the fly, so they'll take up half the space. Or not copy them all to you phone. Seriously, how many do you really need on you at all times?

For me it is, all photos or videos I offload to computer, then its more then enough but I also don't listen to much music on it.

16GB will be enough for you since you'll be offloading your captured photos and videos to your computer.

16gb should be plenty for what you're going to be using it for and if your songs start taking up too much space always remember there's iCloud

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