What is iPhone Model that's right for you ?

 

In the world of the iPhone, the choices aren’t wide. There are, at any time, only a couple of models. For example, at launch, there was a 4-GB model and an 8-GB model. And that was pretty much it for a month or two until Steve Jobs killed the 4-GB model, slashed the price on the 8-GB one, and refurbished ones appeared at the Apple Store.

So how do you choose the model that is right for you? It all comes down to memory. Do you want to pay more for a fewmore gigabytes of onboard memory? It’s not as if those extra gigabytes offer an inexhaustible resource. With enough videos and movies, you can easily run out of storage on an 160-GB iPod Classic, let alone a teeny flash-memory-based iPhone.

So here are some questions you need to ask yourself:

1. Do you need to carry lots of data?Y
   You might not think of your iPhone as a data storage device, but there are ways to use it (mostly involving e-mailing documents to yourself or by using a third-party application) to bring data along with you on the road. If you think you might need to do this, maybe those extra gigabytes could be put to good use.
2. How long do you plan to use this iPhone?
   If you’re an early adopter who plans to trade up at the earliest possible opportunity whenever Apple offers a new unit, you may want to save your pennies now in the hope that a better unit with more memory quickly debuts. If, instead, you want to get the most use out of the iPhone for the longest period of time, paying more up front means you won’t outgrow the memory quite as fast.
   
   

   
3. Do you plan to carry lots of pictures?
   Although iPhone pictures are pretty small (a typical photo is 300 or 400 KB in size), if you carry a few thousand of them around, they do add up to some serious storage. Do you laugh at carrying that many pictures around on your phone? Apple’s built-in iPhoto support makes it simple to put years of photo archives onto your iPhone with a single synchronization option. And taking and sending pictures from the phone couldn’t be easier.
4. How big is your music library?
   If your library is small, no problem. If it’s large, the extra space on some iPhone models helps to store additional music and podcasts.
5. How many videos do you want to carry around?
   A single two-hour movie may occupy more than a gigabyte of storage. If you travel a lot, especially on airplanes, you may want to pay more to store additional movies and TV shows with those extra gigabytes.