A bit controversial choice of Apple to introduce the new iPhone 6S cut minimum 16 GB of integrated storage. Just do a quick calculation to figure out to fill the basic version takes only 30 minutes of 4K video.
The new family of iPhone integrates new features very attractive: 3D touch, a new hardware platform and a higher-resolution camera that records 4K video heavy. All innovations that are not supported by a review that due to regard and that there has been in the storage subsystem. Apple has kept the cuts of the past generation, starting in the basic version of 16 GB.
Too few, especially if we consider the new mode of recording 4K video at 30 fps. Apple itself writes in settings that, at the highest resolution supported, videos occupy about 375 MB per minute. Whereas when you first start the device will have about 12 GB of free storage without application installed, just a quick calculation to find out for running out of space offered will take only 32 minutes of 4K video.
Apple writes that with the settings used by the integrated one minute of video corresponds to the flash memory:
- 60 MB at 720p @ 30fps.
- 130 MB at 1080p @ 30fps.
- 200 MB at 1080p @ 60fps.
- 375 MB 4K @ 30fps.
At best a device with 16 GB and 12 GB of free space will be able to record approximately:
- 200 minutes of video at 720p @ 30fps.
- 92 minutes of video at 1080p @ 30fps.
- 60 minutes of video at 1080p @ 60fps.
- 32 minutes of video at 4K @ 30fps.
All this, we repeat, with no application or photos stored on the device. It is clear that, in the light of the latest technology, 16 GB of integrated storage are not enough to make a device to its fullest possibilities. Just also consider that many applications employing almost 100 MB flash drive and have a natural tendency to grow after just a few uses, while there are also some heavy games on the store gigabytes.
Sure, on the one hand, it is true that the cloud can be useful and it is also true that iOS 9 is able to streamline the ” weight ” of the applications on the disk with the APIs that are entered directly on the operating system; but on the other, we have to admit that Apple has remained virtually the only manufacturer among the most renowned, to offer a high-end smartphone with a minimum size of 16 GB of integrated storage.