Comments on: Nexus 7 Tablet, Will It Have a microSD Card Slot? Probably Not.

By: caeckard

caeckard — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 04:19:00 +0000

for me, it was definitely a deal breaker. I spent time reviewing tablets, determining if I wanted a more powerful tablet or if an ereader tab would work. loved all the reviews on the Nexus 7 so I was actually in the store, item in hand while sales assoc was locking the case and I asked if sd or micro sd card..he said neither. oh, usb? he said no. no external ports at all. use cloud. upload and download?? and what if i’m not around an internet connection?? i handed it back. very disappointed.more like disbelief. anyway, at this stage i’ll stick to my laptop and phone. so yes, it IS and WAS a dealbreaker.

By: caeckard

caeckard — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 03:56:00 +0000

a tablet is my lite version of my laptop. i don’t need more storage IN the tablet if they offer SD card capabilities. That way I put in as much as I want.everyone isn’t loading this full of music or vids to keep…for me this is travel, temporariy. ex: I don’t want to upload then download and then delete just to view or share some photos just snapped from my camera. i want to pop in the card and let you peek and save or delete. i want to make a quickie playlist and pop it in during an hour on the train. i want to work on something and save it to the sd card and have it ready to go to pop into the laptop or desktop for work. we all use tablets for various reasons but we get a level playing field without second guessing it they’d all and sd card for US to decide how best it works for us.

By: katsumi1980

katsumi1980 — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:22:00 +0000

My first thought was they don’t include an expandable slot so they can charge more for the higher storage model… But after doing some research The cloud concept and online storage make sense.

By: Denzall oregon

Denzall oregon — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:11:00 +0000

The Nexus is as much a Fail in the expandability dept as the Kindle. No microsd so you have to use the cloud. Screw the cloud, i want to jam a cheap 32 gb microsd in it for movies and books.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:08:00 +0000

piece of trash isn’t even worthy of being a paperweight.

By: OutOfTheVapor

OutOfTheVapor — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:06:00 +0000

I have several SD cards with manual, music and eBooks. SD Card is required. Too bad they dropped an important product differentiator!

By: David Leitner

David Leitner — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:20:00 +0000

It seems pretty high end already, they just ran over their own toes by not having a microSD card slot

By: David Leitner

David Leitner — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:19:00 +0000

Epic fail on not having a microSD card slot. I own a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 which I use to read, watch anime, and play games. I use a couple microSD cards to fit all my anime on it.
16 GB ant enough for me, maybe if it was available in 32, MAYBE

By: Chris Allen

Chris Allen — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:41:00 +0000

Yep. No SD card, no buy. Not everyone has unlimited data to stream crap over the damn cloud, and I can’t take the cloud with me everywhere. Who wants to spend all damn day deleting and adding different content before you take your device with you? Want one of those fancy new games with awesome graphics? Aww sorry, you need to delete half your damn music library and that cool moving you wanna watch too, or that other game that you wanna finish up. Terrible decision.

By: pops87

pops87 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:33:00 +0000

I hope this no microSD thing isn’t the start of a new trend. Cloud storage is cool and all but I like the handiness of a high-capacity card in my device.

By: Justin McDermott

Justin McDermott — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:23:00 +0000

The thing is, Google is trying to differentiate this tablet from the Kindle Fire. An SD card for the Nexus 7 would be one of many reasons for a consumer to go for the Nexus 7 rather than the Kindle Fire.

By: Justin McDermott

Justin McDermott — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:22:00 +0000

I agree. I dont understand these companies want you to buy as many apps as possible but they dont give you the space options to store them all. In my experience, I become very frugal in which apps I download because I worry about the memory space on my phone. This is the opposite of what Google wants and needs.

By: pball_inuyasha

pball_inuyasha — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:39:00 +0000

I just see one major problem with all this talk about how you need to use the cloud with this. It’s a tablet not a phone so you won’t be connected to the internet everywhere you go, so that seems like a problem to me.

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:12:00 +0000

I was just watching the review of the new Chrome Book, and it has no expandable memory and only 16gb of storage. They were saying how google is doing this to integrate their cloud storage to all their devices for now. I like cloud storage but It would be nice to know how guaranteed my storage will be. I use box for pictures and drive for hd videos, cheaped than upgrading my pos pc at the moment.

By: B

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:07:00 +0000

No SD, no buy. My daughter has the Fire, and I have the Tab 7 plus…whenever there’s an extended trip where video is needed, you simply can’t beat removable storage. A few episodes of Scooby Doo just can’t cut it on an 8 hour trip.