Anyone here have a Google Pixel phone? I have a question about its “as shipped” memory configuration.
A bit of background: my current phone (a Samsung Galaxy 5) has 16GB of “internal storage” and 16GB of “portable storage”. I’m constantly running out of “internal storage” space even though I have a ton of free “portable storage” space. Yes, there’s supposed to be a way of combining the two so that they look like one big storage space, but apparently that involves nuking everything that currently exists in the “portable storage” space.
I’m enticed by the good cameras in the new Google Pixel phones (and also by the USB-C connectors).
Depending on which ad I’m looking at, the smaller Pixel specs claim either that it has 4GB of “main memory” and either 32GB or 128GB of “storage” or just that it has either 32GB or 128GB of “storage”.
Would Someone who has one of these Pixel phones do me a favor and go into “settings” and then “storage” and assure me that you only see one type of storage listed? IE, that it’s not divided into several categories?
On my 128GB Pixel, it is called “Internal shared storage”, and reports that I have used 15.09GB out of 119GB.
I’m not entirely sure what you are trying to figure out. The Pixel doesn’t support an SD memory card, which is what I believe your Galaxy 5 calls “portable storage”. All of the memory in the Pixel is a contiguous block, there is no ability to have removable/portable storage.
Yes, I believe that the “portable storage” on my Samsung is actually an SD memory card - that’s buried somewhere inside the phone’s guts. I just didn’t want to purchase a Pixel and then find out afterwards that it’s got something similar.
Google phones don’t do any kind of removable storage, such as SD cards. The only one that did, ever, was the original Nexus One smartphone, nearly 7 years ago.
So if you get a Pixel, every byte of storage will be “internal”. So pick the size phone you think will be good enough, because you can’t expand it. From your intended use, the 128 G phone may be the best bet.
(Google’s intended use model is that you put stuff into Google Drive cloud storage rather than store it in internal storage. SD Card was often used not just as additional storage, but removable storage/transfer medium… like, taking it out of the phone and slotting it into a PC to be read and archived. That’s the part Google wants to replace with Drive.)