Will 4K video devour the latest iPhones' storage?
For the first time in four years, Apple has increased the iPhone's camera resolution. The latest models -- the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, unveiled yesterday -- now come with 12-megapixel cameras (up from 8 megapixels) and can capture 4K video (at 3840 x 2160 pixels).
What Apple didn't do is increase the amount of internal storage capacity on the smartphones; both iPhone models continue to come with 16GB, 64GB or 128GB of NAND flash memory capacity. Apple did not respond to a request for comment about that move.
At 8 million pixels per frame, one minute of uncompressed 4K video takes up about 5.3GB of storage. And an hour's worth of 4K video devours a whopping 318GB of capacity.
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