32GB Variant of White Nokia Lumia 900?
WMPoweruser reports on seeing a 32GB variant of the Stormtrooper white Nokia Lumia 900 at O2 Germany.
Now, this could simply be an error though a few things may suggest otherwise:
1) Germany has had variants before of WIndows Phone devices with larger capacity than standard – 16GB variants in phones that are 8GB elsewhere
2) WMPU has contacted O2 Germany customer service who confirms the 32GB size (they could be wrong, CS may simply be going from the data on the site) – they also have a printed brochure that shows the same 32GB storage.
This would be nice. 16GB seems to be the sweetspot since most people aren’t requiring much more than 8GB or 16GB. Nokia did have huge internal storage in the N97 and N900 (32GB) and up to 64GB in the top end Nokia N9. But if the majority being sold are the 16GB ones then it might be better economically to stick with that.
However, it would be nice to have options. It makes manufacturing harder as you have another variant but in the end, it’s good for the end consumer who wants more storage (especially if like the N9 or iPhone there is no MicroSD slot).
If this turns out to be real, I’d like this please. I’ve already used up a lot of space on my Lumia 800. 32GB is a nice minimum size for a geek I guess.
Source: WMPoweruser
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Kylie Minogue – Timebomb N9 is in the video I think, either that or lumia^^
I think this is just making false savings of customers, that is all. Also I think that when Windows is “eating” resources it can work worse. Or this is a trick to force user to use external services which would not be used in normal situation. This is making device worse the previously. I think less memory is worse device, especially for resource overconsuming system of Windows. IMHO.
What? Over consuming?
Go on then. Explain that one.
MS is obviously trying to satisfy the carrier. Less storage means more need for data transfer through the mobile network. More data transfere through the mobile network means more money for the carriers and higher bills for the end user customer.
Cloud storage of data is good as an option but has it’s drawbacks from a end user perspective.
Operators certainly don’t want more data transfer, they actually want less. But MS doesn’t give damn about what operators want, this is simply aimed at WP users, to force them into MS cloud and other services. And so Nokia have no choice but produce crippled phones.
Operators want more data transfer but only over their networks so they can charge for it.
I’d prefer my Lumia 800 to have 32GB but 16GB has been OK so far. Sky Drive is excellent but then there’s a lot of free WiFi where I live and I have a pretty good data plan from Vodafone.
True, to a point – there are reports at least here in the US that carriers are worried that all the iPads, iPhones and Androids are now using so much data that they can’t keep with capacity and investment. So while they do won’t more chargable data, they won’t it in a managed manner.
On this they can probably strategize with the OS and hardware manufacturers.
At least for me local and cloud storage are not competing. They are complemetary. Until the day – likely very far in the future – cloud storage is so abundant and reliable that I can stream music and video from anywhere anytime without fault. And I suspect carriers and MS and Nokia etc. all realise this. Hence e.g. this 32GB version of L900 coming and reportedly SD card support in WP8. And push for Skydrive all at the same time.
Doffen is right. it’s light a conspiracy for lack of a batter word. ms gains a lot of users to their cloud storage solutions, and carriers can bill the customers more for data. carriers don’t want less data, they want more. even android phones from htc,sony and lg come now with only 16 gb and sd card. every company tries to push users to their cloud platform. google wants users for it’s services, apple for icloud, sony has it’s own cloud storage service, htc is building it’s own, samsung does the same. plus all the musical services who promote renting music and streaming, instead of owning a track.
and carriers like this. untill now you could have stored all of your music and videos in your phone. now they give you less memory so you are forced to use streaming and cloud services, and for this you need high data plans. they are steeling our freedom and make us pay for things that were free till now. and the sad thing is that i see people on america actually like this. the call it progress for ffs.
so bottom line, this is the trend nowadays, it’s not only, ms, it’s everybody. i’m glad they decided to put sd card support in wp8. i’m not buying a wp untill i get a high end device with removable battery and sd card
Operators want more money, but raw data is the worst way to earn them. It would cost them bloody money to have the capacity to allow gigabytes of data being constantly streamed back and fort by each user.
don’t bother with idiots. for them windows phone means win vista or who knows what else. it just shows how ignorant they are when they criticizing the platform. it’s cool to be critic about the lack of features and the closed system, but a resource hog? lmao
Err, say what…
I have asked you very politely a million times to stop using the user names to spam your message.
Seriously. Your next comment like this will be removed and you will be banned. All of your comments will then be removed. I have given you plenty of warnings.
Yes you did, and that was just an old cookie.
How about this one?
From the other hand I think that while we are in EU area yet still, still yet, then here is freedom of speech and thinking hence I can call myself as I want to be called unless I am not breaking a law, offending anybody in this number. I don’t think my nick was offending. Besides that is true. Normally I think most companies would be happy somebody says good things about flagship products, Nokia is the only one against.
Doesn’t metter. Feel free to remove this comment – there were no other way to say this to you.
It has got nothing to do with your messsage. It’s the fact that you keep trying to spam this message as your username.
The username is there to help with the discussion so people can identify with each other who is saying what.
Our comments here are extremely open to all opinions. They’re so open to the point that they often erupt in comment wars. I don’t remove comments that would express one type of opinion or another. Just automated or purposeful spam.
If you want to share your opinion about the N9, put it in the actual comments section to be posted in a relevant post that discusses that relevant topic. It would be the same if someone kept repeating messages about N900, N8, Lumia, Nokia, etc. It’s not the subject I have a problem with, it’s the principle that you are spamming.
Freedom of speech is great but so is being polite and respecting the fact that YOU are not the only reader of this blog and your constant spammage is unpleasant.
Is it freedom of speech for me to stand outside your house to start shouting about how much I love Ben and Jerry’s ice cream and how it’s the best ice cream guaranteed? Is it freedom of speech for me to spread flyers about it or keep sending messages to people with that exact same message, after they ask me to stop it? Perhaps. But it’s impolite and harassing.
I think it’s very rude of you that I have asked you not to use the username box to spread spam countless times and you continue using it. It’s so disrespectful. I have not removed this comment in the HOPE (because I am always hopeful) that you may see fit to grant the other users with the same respect not to spam and antagonise the other readers. I am hopeful that like the majority of our readers, you can self moderate and adhere to some level of internet-discussion politeness.
WMPowerUser just reported that O2 confirmed the specs, apparently.
Since they could fit in 64GB of storage in the N9, 32GB shouldn’t be a problem in my mind for its WPs, the OS can be updated to read the added internal storage easily, it’s not like the Sammy Focus where the SD card caused issues.
I will love to see a 128GB Lumia though. Data consumption is all well and good, but local storage is still important.
There is one WP device with 32 GB of internal memory – Fujitsu Toshiba IS12T. It’s available in Japan and several other Asian countries only.
So, Mango as it is now definitely supports at least 32 GB.
Lumia 900 With 64GB WILL BETTER LIKE N9 I WILL THE FIRST TI BUY IF THE 64 GB LUMIA 900 LAUNCH
Not bad, though I’m fine with the 16GB on my Lumia 800. Only managed to fill up half of it. Don’t see any need for more storage at the moment.
I too would like at least 32gb, but my 800 is doing fine so far
best smart phone I’ve ever had (and I’ve had 4 iPhones, a Galaxy, Palm Pre, a N8, a N9)