I am thinking of buying a 2Gb Huawei phone for under 1000 new.

I am assuming 2Gb is enough for WeChat, email, and sat nav use. Am I correct?

WECHAT
If you regularly purge videos, pictures, and conversations - 2gb should be fine.

Email
Depends on content and most especially attachments. IMAP will sync with your server - but you can configure that to only show last xx number of days/months, depending on the email client.

@taijijulia was advertising a near new condition phone - might want to check her ad history and maybe be prepared to buy a new battery depending on age.

SATNAV
Depends on if you travel frequently - as maps and locations tend to be stored in a history buffer, for increased access speed. Again - usually purge-able.

In my opinion, no. I had a phone with 16G and kept bumping up against the limit. Latest android versions have a lot of features and crap apps are pre-loaded. I went to 32G internal storage and in two years same problem.

Now I have a Samsung Note 8 with 64G running android 8.0.0. I have moved every app I can to the SD card. I am using 32.3G. It shows what is labeled as "memory" of 6G with 3.5G used.

8.0.0 is pretty good at moving apps and from internal to the SD card. Sure are a lot of pre-installed junk apps that eat up space and can't be completely removed.

My advice: Pay for more internal memory and make sure the SD slot will take at least 64G or SDXC, never less than 32G or SDHC.

Wechat uses 434MB on my phone.

I think he must mean 2GB memory (RAM) as opposed to storage? WeChat is a bit of a hog on both the memory and storage fronts, but as long as you're not trying to use navigation, wechat, and email at the same time, I reckon you'll be fine. I have a Galaxy S9, still only has 4GB RAM and is very snappy for all sorts of apps.

Yes I meant 2Gb Ram. I should have been clearer.

Am I the only one who finds aliennew amusing?

I still have a dumb flip phone. Flip phones are more fun to use as an actual phone.

And nothing beats a laptop. Can you multitask on those phones? I have an iPad and it only lets you run one app at a time. Boring. Long live the laptop!

Sorry for trolling ...

Smartphones are heaven sent for studying Chinese. Thes flip phones are great if you just want a telephone. Before smartphones I use to carry a phone and an electronic EC/CE dictionary. If you just want to just make phone call then get those phones that the elderly use with the big buttons, they're very cheap priced and the battery lasts for a long time.
A laptop is not as convenient

as a smartphone.

Huawei et al have those brick phones - although they're slim, they look like mini iPads held up to your ear.

Recommend bluetooth or wired earphone/microphone. The phablets (fablets?) eat battery life and are monstrously huge (phablets aka fat tablets) - but have huge screens (about half the size of an iPad mini minus the super high resolution screen, but typically come with dual sim card slots - which also eat batteries.

Personally - I hate and detest voice calls and prefer text or voice messages whenever possible and convenient. Voice calls are intrusive both to one's self and the person/people next to you who are forced to listen to your private conversations (reality mobile phone entertainment?).