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  • Sheesh, you quote that much for a one-line response?

    I've clearly referenced Samsung, HTC, Google phones, off the shelf, that will receive a number of updates to the system and core apps over the lifetime, and estimated the size based on real-world observations of that.

    None of the above is going to apply if you use AOSP (or another stripped-down mod) and instead of doing OTA updates, or having unremovable system apps, you just blow away the phone once a year.

    It should be pretty obvious. It's the difference between an Ubuntu install on a PC, and a Slackware user with a pared down build.

    But, for the average person, with the average Android, applying updates to everything over the life of the phone... you can reasonably expect that the size you should allow for the OS and all of those updates, duplicated apps, etc... to be in the order of multi-GB, and what I observed on the S3 we have is that 5GB isn't an unrealistic expectation.

    Of course, you, I, Emyr, and anyone else rooting and modding already isn't the average user.

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