Is this WeChat feature finally coming? You don’t need to buy a phone with too much storage capacity, 64GB may be enough

The configuration information of the iPhone 13 series has been basically exposed. This year's iPhone 13 and 13 mini still start at 64GB. At the price of 5,000 yuan, except for Apple, it is difficult to find a flagship phone with 64GB storage. In this era, if you are still using a mobile phone with 64GB storage, it is really uncomfortable to use.

Unless you don't have a big need to take photos or shoot videos on a daily basis, and don't have any large applications installed on your phone, and only have a few that you use daily, especially your WeChat chat history takes up very little space, then in theory, 64GB is enough.

The WeChat app can be called a storage "killer" on your phone. It takes up most of your storage space and is increasing every day. As long as you have the habit of syncing your records to a new phone every time you change it, your WeChat records will definitely exceed 10GB.

I’ve only used WeChat for four months, but it’s already taken up 10GB of space, including the previous chat records, otherwise it would definitely be more than this.

When I buy a mobile phone, I usually buy the 128GB version. This capacity was enough until last year, but as I used my phone to shoot videos and photos more and more often, the memory was obviously not enough.

If you buy a new iPhone this year, you can only start with 256GB, but it seems that the iPhone 13 Pro series has cancelled 256GB, and there are only three versions: 128GB, 512GB, and 1TB. This is forcing people to buy 512GB!

But now, it seems that we don’t need to buy a mobile phone with such large storage.

Today, China Daily's Finance column learned that Tencent plans to launch a personal WeChat cloud storage function, but this function is not free and requires payment to use the service. The annual fee is 180 yuan/year for Apple users and 120 yuan/year for Android users. The storage capacity has not yet been disclosed.

But why are cloud storage prices different for Apple and Android users? Is this a trick to trick Apple users?

In fact, I had predicted in July that WeChat would launch a cloud storage function.

At that time, I found that when I logged into WeChat on different mobile phones, the chat records would be automatically synchronized. Although it was only a one-way synchronization and only the other party's chat records were synchronized, it was practical for many people. At least the other party's chat records were saved in case of emergency.

There are mixed reviews online about this new feature. Some people think it is unnecessary. Why keep chat records for so long? Wouldn’t it be better to get rid of them in time? Deleting chat records is also a way of saying goodbye to the past.

Some friends also think it is very practical. In the future, they don’t need to buy such a large capacity mobile phone. More than 100 yuan a year is not expensive. But they are afraid that if they don’t want to pay later, what will happen to these chat records?