Comments on: Thursday Poll: Deal Breaker if a Phone Doesn’t Have a microSD Slot?

By: itznfb

itznfb — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:35:00 +0000

People? Or geeks? Most people wouldn’t even know how to go about purchasing the right card or why they would even need it.

By: Paul McElroy

Paul McElroy — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:44:00 +0000

I agree with all of you points. Good post. However, there may be no noticeable impact on SD-bound mp3s, but on higher bandwidth activities such as HD movies or storage intensive video games, the bandwidth limitations are noticeable. But it’s still worth it to have the backup and transfer capabilities of an SD-card.

By: Paul McElroy

Paul McElroy — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:41:00 +0000

SD cards themselves are slower than internal memory. If you had moved that content to internal memory you would have noticed a speed increase.

By: Paul McElroy

Paul McElroy — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:39:00 +0000

Oblivion was Bethesda’s answer to Morrowind and Daggerfall. And it was more popular and wildly successful. Wrestling is on the Syfy channel. Snooki. I think pandering to the lowest common denominator is a pretty popular and successful strategy for companies, even if it isn’t the “right” one.

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By: Paul McElroy

Paul McElroy — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:35:00 +0000

Then traditional computers must really confuse you, with all their storage options. /sarcasm

By: Paul McElroy

Paul McElroy — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:30:00 +0000

Doubt it, people will always want swap-able local storage. There’s no growing out of that. Phone makes are living in a fantasy world right now. But that bubble will pop.

By: PetiePal

PetiePal — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:13:00 +0000

The real problem is that that the cellphone manufacturers, Google and the service providers want you to have everything live in the cloud. Unfortunately unlimited plans are no more, unless you’re grandfathered in….and Wifi ISN’T everywhere…and if it is, it’s not always free or open.

Until THAT happens…I’ll need the local space. Unless those Samsung 64GB chips they just cranked out get like 2-3 put in a phone!

By: lemonhead127

lemonhead127 — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:55:00 +0000

I’m guessing that non-removable batteries in phones is going to become the norm by next year or 2014. If that is mainly what you are looking for in a phone than you may have a bad situation on your hands.

By: Timoh

Timoh — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:43:00 +0000

Android tablets can use USB flash drives. Just get a cable and flash drive. Not ideal really but really cool to have the ability to do so. Definitely more cost effective than (Micro)SD cards.

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By: bucketachicken

bucketachicken — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:25:00 +0000

There’s two problems I have with this. First, manufacturers are pushing for the cloud, yes. Carriers, on the other hand, are putting more and more limitations on data caps (if I use Plex to stream a 720p BluRay ripped movie to my phone or tablet, that’s like 5+ gigs at full quality, even half quality it’s still the entire data cap for many people), and coverage, especially at the 4G level, is nowhere near where it needs to be for this to be reality yet.

But for the moment, let’s ignore that. Pretend 4G coverage is everywhere, worldwide, and data caps are nonexistent. Streaming music is now wonderful, high quality, works everywhere. Same for movies and tv shows, works perfectly. But games? Games aren’t streamed currently. Sure, there’s the occasionall OnLive-esque system for phones/tablets, but those are few and far between. 99% of mobile games are downloaded and locally installed. Looking at my installs right now on my GS3, MC3 takes 2.68 GB, Dark Knight takes 2.28 GB, NOVA 3 1.76 GB, Asphalt 7 1.49 GB, and Real Racing 2 takes 1.05 GB. That’s just 5 games, and that’s 9.26 gigs taken up. Ignoring the fact that I’m on Sprint and it’s a GSM device, the N4 would be completely out of the question for me. I couldn’t even install those 5 games at once on the phone for the 8 GB version, and wouldn’t have all that much space left on the 16, and that’s FIVE games. Why should I be limited to such a low number of simultaneously installed games? It’s not like app sizes are trending downward or anything, either…

So that’s why I want my 32GB devices (or 64? 128? I would HAPPILY buy those…). If we ever get to a time when coverage/network speed isn’t an issue, and data caps aren’t an issue, AND there’s some sort of magical ultimate OnLive-style system where I just install that one app, open it, and pick any game I want and just play it immediately, no loading, all stream, then I will happily buy a device with tiny-ass onboard storage. But until that happens, I needz mah geebees. Plus, it’s frickin’ 2012, memory prices are getting so cheap, there’s even less of a reason to skimp than there was in years before.

By: Pete Samson

Pete Samson — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:25:00 +0000

Absolutely a deal breaker. Reason of privacy, for one.

You see, there is no way you can erase your old data from a flash memory, if you go to sell the phone. I have tried erasing and rewriting 5-6 times, and I was still able to recover everything that was on there. Flash memory doesn’t work like a hard drive. Hard drive you can erase. Flash memory, you can’t.

Don’t let some Ebay pervert play with your pictures or videos. No way No how that you can remove internal memory from a phone. With a micro sd card, you just pull it out and use it in your new phone. Thats just one reason. There are many more. External cards are cheap and will get cheaper and larger.

By: FAL_Fan

FAL_Fan — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:42:00 +0000

Hahaha! I anticipated someone saying that…but even though that is not the case for me it may be for others. Regardless, I would rather have the option to take the card out and not use it than to need it and not have it.

By: TylerChappell

TylerChappell — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:19:00 +0000

Somebody has naughty pictures… XD jk
I neglected to think of that reason, I would want to do the same.

By: Ely W. Sluder

Ely W. Sluder — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:46:00 +0000

Accessing stuff in the cloud eats into stoopid un-unlimited data.

By: Alexander H

Alexander H — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:27:00 +0000

Your 2GB of cloud per month thanks to Verizon’s data caps…