The just-announced Galaxy S24 lineup offers a number of storage options, with the Galaxy S24 Plus and Galaxy S24 Ultra both offering 256GB of capacity on the base model. However, a new report suggests that Apple may be aiming above Samsung, at least when it comes to storage limits.

When the iPhone 16 Pro arrives this fall, it could offer as much as 2TB of onboard storage. This is according to a blog post by yeux1122, who is providing pre-launch information.

This would be significantly larger than what the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max currently offer. However, the iPhone 15 Pro Max has more storage in the base unit (256GB to 128GB for the iPhone 15 Pro)

More importantly, the 2TB iPhone 16 Pro is available in 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB configurations Galaxy It is also twice the maximum capacity of the S24 Ultra.

This apparent increase in storage capacity is rumored to be due to a change to higher density quad-level cell (QLC) NAND flash drives rather than the more expensive triple-level cell (TLC) NAND. However, this change has several potential drawbacks. Namely, QLC is slower to read and write and slightly less durable.

The big question would be how much the 2 TB iPhone 16 Pro would cost. 1 TB storage up to the iPhone 15 Pro would cost $1,499, $500 more than the base cost of the iPhone 15 Pro. 2 TB of storage would have to be imagined to be even more expensive.

The 1TB Galaxy S24 Ultra model is only $360 more than the 256GB base model. However, Samsung just raised the price of the Ultra model by $100 over last year. Pre-orders of the Galaxy S24 currently being made by Samsung allow users to upgrade their storage without the cost of moving up one tier.

Storage may not be the biggest concern for iPhone Pro buyers; the big additions to the iPhone 16 Pro will be the upgraded telephoto lens, the new A17 chipset, and the iOS 18 software update's AI functionality with the iOS 18 software update.

Before you start making plans to get a 2TB iPhone this fall, remember that this is not the first time we are hearing such rumors. Similar predictions had the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro offering a 2TB storage option, but that never materialized. Let's see if this particular rumor will be the third time around.