Brian & Anand Hate SD Card's in Phones

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accguy9009 said:
Sorry to disagree with you but Apple has not put card readers in any mobile device I can I remember since well, forever. If they wanted to offer an SD card option they would find a way. They chose not to do so a long time ago.
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It's starting to look more and more like I will never own a single Apple device. :cool:

Here's the card I just bought for my new Nokia Lumia 520: Sony 32GB Class 10 Micro SDHC R40 Memory Card. The reviews at Amazon indicate that this card is extremely fast, pretty much pummeling the competition, and the price is barely more than the cheaper ones. I ordered two days ago at a cost of $19.72. Looks like they jacked up the price over $3 in those two days since I ordered. Amazon prices fluctuate, I guess they do that partly to keep you poking around their site.
 
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openwheel said:
mSD is not a solution.

Outside of US is another story.
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I assume you mean for yourself? I know a guy who has more than one mSD card and he even knows how to swap them out and he sometimes changes the content on his mSD cards. Its blasphemy I know but the man does this if he has a mind to and I haven't been able to stop him.
 
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Cerb said:
That, combined with the context of what you were quoting: that any old SD is fast enough because it can stream a low-bitrate movie, so there's no need for anything but internal storage to be performant.
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For someone normally extremely articulate and highly informed I don't understand when/where the idea of me or anyone for that matter, using "any old" SD ever came up in relation to anything I posted. The right card for the purpose it will be used for is my mantra. Of course I am one who can't even recall if my memory is going
 
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nOOky said:
What I'm getting at is that expecting a phone to hold 7 years worth of images and your entire ripped music collection and being the only option available on a vacation to take pictures, watch movies, and listen to music just doesn't make much sense at all imho.
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What if I just want to put both seasons of house of cards, 6 or 8 movies and a chunk of flac audio on the card? Do you have to be so dramatic with the 7 year thing? Better for many of us to have the option than to have it taken away and wish later it was there.
 
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Cerb said:
In the mean time, you help keep them from getting faster, by buying the slow ones over and over again--IE, not enough demand.
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So now we're back to the tired old argument "SD card users are holding the industry"?

Please.

That is the equivalent of saying that every 4770k user is keeping Intel from releasing a mainstream 6 core by showing a lack of demand for faster.
 
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TerryMathews said:
So now we're back to the tired old argument "SD card users are holding the industry"?

Please.

That is the equivalent of saying that every 4770k user is keeping Intel from releasing a mainstream 6 core by showing a lack of demand for faster.
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What's even funnier about that argument is most eMMCs are barely faster or even slower than the mainstream Class 10 microSD, according to the A1 SDcard bench on Android.
 
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accguy9009 said:
Sorry to disagree with you but Apple has not put card readers in any mobile device I can I remember since well, forever. If they wanted to offer an SD card option they would find a way. They chose not to do so a long time ago.
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Do laptops count as mobile devices?
 
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The morotola droid razr had a really nice sd slot; since it was on the side and you could swap cards without turning the device off (unlike samsung who put the slot below the battery). But back to the topic for a phone I like the sd slot for video/camera and for a tablet it is mandatory (for me) for videos.
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I don't really know what Brian and Anand like and dislike but they are welcome to buy whatever satisfy their needs.
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I can probably live without an sd slot on a phone (though it is helpful to have one) but while I can understand why companies (google/apple) dont' want sd slot (and it has little to do with making the consumer life easier) why exactly does Brian and Anand think it is bad for me to buy a device with sd slot ?
 
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Zaap said:
Do laptops count as mobile devices?
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That point can be debated by reasonable folks. Either way SD cards are not to be found. That is OK as anyone wanting that type of storage option should be fully cognizant that it is not offered.
 
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accguy9009 said:
That point can be debated by reasonable folks. Either way SD cards are not to be found. That is OK as anyone wanting that type of storage option should be fully cognizant that it is not offered.
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Well I was asking because Apple almost seems to go out of their way to include SD card slots on the MacBook line (especially given all the other potential ports they give up in their persuit of even svelter sveltness.) A user could always just use a USB card reader instead. I'd personally rather have an additional USB port or Ethernet than the SD slot on my rMBP.

Yet with a true mobile device I'd rather have mSD for storage. To me, mSD on a tablet or phone makes a lot more sense than an SD slot on a laptop with tons more I/O options.
 
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s44 said:
By this definition an iPad isn't a mobile device either.
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I'd say if you can use it in your hand it's mobile. If you have to put it down on a table, it's portable... unless it's a desktop and then you have to call the movers. :biggrin:
 
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TerryMathews said:
So now we're back to the tired old argument "SD card users are holding the industry"?

Please.

That is the equivalent of saying that every 4770k user is keeping Intel from releasing a mainstream 6 core by showing a lack of demand for faster.
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Normally my upgrade path from the i7-990x, 1366 which I have would have been to a 2011 system.

However I was intrigued by the Haswell so I built up a system based on the 4770k. It is now languishing in the corner simply because for what I want to do the 990x doesn't present any bottlenecks for me.

The 4770k blows my main machine away on any benchmark you want to run on them; however why should I change my main machine from the perfectly good one I have been running 24/7 for 1256 days 11 hours now.
 
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I find it highly satisfying that the newest, just-announced version of HTC One (M8) now includes a micro-SD slot, as well as more metal in its chassis. Remember that this whole thread started because of Brian's review for the previous (M7) model. Boo-yah!

This proves that manufacturers are getting a loud and clear message that external storage is NOT optional.
 
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I personally would not consider a tablet or phone that doesn't have a mSD slot. It's so easy to just pop in a card and have all the storage in the world, be able to move large files around etc without having to use the network/wifi.

In fact, I would have purchased the nexus 7 tablet, but it doesn't have a slot on it so I didn't.
 
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Nec_V20 said:
Normally my upgrade path from the i7-990x, 1366 which I have would have been to a 2011 system.

However I was intrigued by the Haswell so I built up a system based on the 4770k. It is now languishing in the corner simply because for what I want to do the 990x doesn't present any bottlenecks for me.

The 4770k blows my main machine away on any benchmark you want to run on them; however why should I change my main machine from the perfectly good one I have been running 24/7 for 1256 days 11 hours now.
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That doss nothing to address my post and makes no sense in the context of the discussion.
 
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