Something special happened today.
Samsung, a tech companyyou definitely know,announced its mass-producing 1TB flash storage chipsfor mobile devices.
In other words, youll soon be able to buy phones with a terabyte of storage space.
When I asked people about this news, there were two main schools of thought.
The first was a deep apathy focusing on why anyones phone would need this much space.
The other camp which Im a firm and unwavering member of think the idea a 1TB phone is awesome.
To settle this, lets have a look at the main arguments for and against a 1TB phone.
Theyre stored in the cloud.
Want to catch up with the latest fire series?
Stream that thing from some far flung server.
Fancy jamming to some fresh hip cat ripping it up on the oboe?
Spotify has you covered.
It’s free, every week, in your inbox.
You just dont need 1TB of local storage these days.
Simply, 1TB is overkill.
Then you have the inevitable cost.
For an iPhone Xs, theres a $200 jump between the 256GB and the 512GB model.
Is whatever youre planning to do with all that extra 512GB really worth it?Really?
And yeah, for many people 1TB is a useless amount of space.
But its not that way for many people.
Its not that way for me.
First off, gaming.
Just consider the 2GB or so of storage that Fornite takes up.
Theres one ultimate use of all that space though.
Nope, not movies or TV shows phone screens are too small.
Nope, not even collecting the app of every single airline.
Im talking about music.
Ive been vocal about my disappointment regarding the disappearance of personal music players (RIP the iPod).
I do get it carrying around one gear with music on it is far easier than juggling a couple.
Unfortunately, Id need a 512GB machine to get all my MP3s on there.
But if I was using the FLAC or lossless collection of my portable dreams?
A 1TB phone would be incredible and totally worth the cost bump.
And this is the crux of it.
A 1TB phone isnt going appeal to everyone.
Thats not the point.
