That's a non issue for most cheap phones form the last few years, even sub 200 Euro phones, as most ship with at least 128GB as base storage. My OnePlus 3T came with 128 GB of base storage. In 2016! 7 years ago.
Hell, on Amazon right now I can find a brand new 99 Euro 'Chinese Brand' Android phone with 128GB of storage and 8GB of RAM. Granted, I wouldn't recommend anyone actually go and buy that one, but it shows even if you're tight on cash and need a phone with lots of storage you can get it even on rock bottom prices.
Only Apple is the one left who shortchanges you in 2023 wiht 64GB base storage even at +500 Euro phones, but that's an Apple-only problem, not a smartphone problem.
Still, I'd much rather pay a bit extra for more storage on a phone to keep my encrypted messages locally than in the cloud of some shady app like Telegram that's "FREE" and yet needs to finance it's massive cloud bills somehow.
Hell, on Amazon right now I can find a brand new 99 Euro 'Chinese Brand' Android phone with 128GB of storage and 8GB of RAM. Granted, I wouldn't recommend anyone actually go and buy that one, but it shows even if you're tight on cash and need a phone with lots of storage you can get it even on rock bottom prices.
Only Apple is the one left who shortchanges you in 2023 wiht 64GB base storage even at +500 Euro phones, but that's an Apple-only problem, not a smartphone problem.
Still, I'd much rather pay a bit extra for more storage on a phone to keep my encrypted messages locally than in the cloud of some shady app like Telegram that's "FREE" and yet needs to finance it's massive cloud bills somehow.