In a wide-ranging commentary piece about why now is a bad time to buy a new iPhone, The Wall Street Journal has confirmed that the iPhone 7 will start with 32GB of storage, replacing the infamous 16GB ...

The base-price iPhone 7, according to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal, will have an amount of storage that will make it usable. Not great, not amazing, not best in class, but usable. How ...

A couple weeks ago GSMArena reported that its tests showed that 32GB iPhone 7 and 7 Plus models had slower storage performance than 128GB and 256GB models. Today, Unbox Therapy's Lew Hilsenteger ...

As it launched the iPhone 7, Apple wisely ditched a 16GB option. But with 4K video, big apps and raw photos, even twice that amount of storage will feel cramped. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

The next iPhone (we’re just calling it the iPhone 7 because who knows what it’s really named) may come with a 32GB base storage option, according to the latest rumor. It may not sound like much, but ...

The low-capacity version of the phone might have a bit slower storage speed, but in real-world usage, you might not have a different experience at all. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved ...

If the advent of SSDs over the past eight years has taught us anything, it's that storage performance matters. One of the best ways to breathe new life into an old rig is to drop an SSD in it. This ...

Apple isn’t telling you everything about its phones. Few weeks back, GSMArena reported that the 32GB iPhone 7 and 7 Plus had significantly slower storage performance than the 128GB and 256GB models of ...

Apple says all of its iPhone 7 models are basically identical except for the amount of storage. The basic 32GB iPhone costs $649, but for $100 extra, Apple sells a 128GB version of the iPhone 7. For ...

The iPhone’s base-level storage — starting at 16GB — has been a sticking point for quite a while. More and more content has become available over time in the form of video, apps and photos, and it can ...

The iPhone 7 is a tempting option here if you’re tight on budget, but 32GB will be too small for most users. Upgrade the storage and you might as well spend the extra to jump to the brilliant XR.

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