What is the difference between mega and giga and all those other "bytes"?

Question

I'm deciding on a new cell phone, but I don't want to go and spend $300 on a phone only to have to buy hundreds of bucks in memory for it. Can someone either explain the measuring for memory or explain what phone would be best?

Thx.

I want to be able have music, videos, and all that other stuff, and I really don't know how much space that it essentually takes up. Can anyone answer that?

Answer 1

Kilobyte- about 1000 bytes (pieces, if you will) of information


Megabyte= 1,000,000

Gigabyte=1,000,000,000

Terabyte=1,000,000,000,000

You can fit about 80 mp3s or a 1 1/2 hour video on a 1 gb card.

For cell phones, I would get a 2 gb card.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Computer byte is different from Kg, Km. It is 2 to the power of 10.

1Kb =2^10 byte = 1024 byte
1 MB = 2^10 Kb = 2^20 byte
1 GB = 2^10 MB = 2^20 KB = 2^30 byte

While
1 Kg =10^3 g = 1000 g
1Km = 10^3 m = 1000 m

Answer 3

Alright... memory works as such:

In all computers, memory is stored in values of 1 (on) or 0 (off). A byte is 8 of these values.

A kilobyte is 1024 bytes.
A megabyte is 1024 kilobytes.
A gigabyte is 1024 megabytes.
And a terrabyte is 1024 gigabytes.

Unless you are planning on making full motion videos on your cell phone, I can guarentee you that you will NOT need a gigabyte of storage. I have 128 megabyte card in my phone and it works perfectly for everything I could ever need.

Answer 4

1 bit is a single 0 or 1
a ""Nibble" is four zeros or ones
a Byte is eight zeros or ones.

Now it gets complicated.

KB is a Kilobyte, or 1024 Bytes
MB is a MegaByte, 1024 KB
GB is a Gigabyte, 1024 MB
TB is a terabyte, 1024 GB

Hard drive manufactures didn't like all the math that entails, so lower case abbreviations were created.

kb is a Kilobyte, or 1000 Bytes
mb is a MegaByte, 1000 kb
gb is a Gigabyte, 1000 mb
tb is a terabyte, 1000 gb

Sadly, most manufactures use the upper case and lower case abbreviations to refer to the multiples of 1,000 instead of 1,024.

Answer 5

1000 kilabytes = 1 megabyte

1000 megabytes= = 1 gigabyte

if you can get a phone 1 gigabyte of memory you will be able to hold around 250 songs

Answer 6

it's all depends on how one defines these things if you define god how most religions do, as a supernatural omnipotent omniscient omnipresent being that cares about you, that is neither real nor does it exist if you define god as an energy in the universe, that might be real as for UFO's those are real and they do exist suppose a small private plan is picked up by the USAF radar, for a brief moment, they do not know what it is, therefore making it a UFO but if you mean UFO as in alien spacecraft, just because we have the definition of UFO doesn't make it real we have a definition for leprechauns and unicorns but they are not real nor do they exist

Answer 7

Kilo is the metric prefix for thousand,1x10e3, 1,000
Mega is the metric prefix for million,1x10e6, 1000,000
Giga is the metric prefix for Billion, 1x10e9, 1,000,000,000
Tera is the metric prefix for Trillion, 1x10e12, 1,000,000,000,000

When taking about memory, the nearest power of two is used which is slightly bigger
.
2^10 is 1,024, 1Kb
2^20 is 1,048,576, 1Mb
2^30 is 1,073,741,824, 1Gb
2^40 is 1,099,511,627,776, 1Tb

Answer 8

Mega == million*
Giga == billion*

*bytes

Answer 9

1000 mgs is 1 gig.