Will we ever have enough smartphone storage?

Kyle Venktess

Every day we capture more pictures, more videos, and more “content”, as social media influencers like to call it. Over the years, smartphone storage has had to increase in capacity to cater for more information captured by a device, more data being transferred, and more temporary memory to cater for high-resource-consuming software which runs on ever-evolving smartphones. The trend in the increase of smartphone storage is also likely attributed to the increased file size of pictures and videos captured on the device thanks to larger megapixel cameras capable of producing files, gigabytes in size, in a few minutes capturing 4K videos. Another demand is through apps that save files for off-line use, like films and movies downloaded on Netflix and music streaming apps. In a South African context, while mobile…

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Sunday Independent (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2023-04-23

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