What's more important? Removable battery or sdcard?

[BlahBlahYouToo]

All the Samsung fan boys tout these as the most important reasons in buying their phones.
If the next phone were to only keep one of these features, which would you want?

Personally, I've had phones with removable batteries but never once bought an extra, whether it be to extend life or due to it dying prematurely so sd for me.

 

[Red Storm]

For typical amounts and length of usage I'd say battery, cause it's much cheaper and less of a hassle to buy a new battery than having to send your phone in.

However, I never keep my phones for very long so for me I'd go with mSD slot.

 

[Roland00Address]

Removable battery is more important if storage is 32 GB or greater

You also do not need a removable battery if the mah is 3600 or greater with a phone that is 5 inches or less

 

[Germanic]

For me, I travel and go overseas a lot.

So removable battery is more important. I'm going to buy a spare battery for my Galaxy S4.

SD card... not really. I don't really download many games or watch movies on my phone. I only have around 10 games on my phone and I usually uninstall them after a few weeks. Even around 5GB of free space is plenty for me.

 

[Oyeve]

SD card. Need lots of storage upfront for movies and songs. Never ran into an issue that I needed an extra battery since my S1 days and never have a single phone longer than 8-10 months. I am a phone whore. Memory trumps all IMO.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Removable battery is more important if storage is 32 GB or greater

Make it 64GB and you are correct. Oh and make it so the 64GB model is available day one in all colors thanks. Then I don't need the SD card slot.


Removable battery is the most elegant of the three solutions available (battery case and portable charging brick) to keep your phone working for those late nights out on the town or long vacation/wedding/graduation/etc. days.

There are other advantages to external batteries: you can replace them when they get weaker, charging via external charger saves wear and tear on your microSD port, you can easily get extended batteries, and you can get multiple (I had three total for my S2 for super long plane rides).

Honestly I hate having to charge a battery. I only got my S4 a week ago and it was killing me this weekend to have to top off the power during my gaming marathon. I can't wait until the S4 external charger is released.

 

[openwheel]

neither

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

I voted removable battery, but only because ive never had a phone without it, and what are you supposed to do if your phone goes bananas, and none of the buttons are responding?

Besides that, I could care less about either. I dont have many apps installed, upload all my pics and videos to dropbox, and I use google play music. Maybe if i had a larger device, and played a ton of games on it, but even then, 16GB is usually enough, and im guessing 32 will be the new standard soon, so no need for me.

 

[SpongeBob]

Removable battery is not important to me at all. In fact, I prefer the battery not to be removable so that a bigger battery can be integrated into the same or smaller volume. micro SD slot is extremely important to me.

 

[SunnyD]

neither

Both.

imho, removable battery though. Having a non-user serviceable battery basically is telling a user that the device is designed for planned obsolescence and replacement. Instead of paying $20 to 'refurbish' the device with ease once the battery dies, you're stuck either paying an obscene repair fee to replace it, trying a potentially risky DIY (the newer phones are a pain in the ass to DIY the battery), or buying a new phone. At $500+ a pop these days... these things aren't exactly disposable.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I voted removable battery, but only because ive never had a phone without it, and what are you supposed to do if your phone goes bananas, and none of the buttons are responding?

Good point. Pulling the battery is very satisfying if nothing else.

 

[ChronoReverse]

You simply hold the power button until it turns off/reboots.

It's a hardware failsafe.

 

[Phokus]

I'm using the 64gb version of the HTC one so storage is no big deal for me. Hopefully this size becomes the norm.

 

[Aganazer]

neither

Agreed. My music and videos are all streaming now. I just don't need a large amount of memory anymore.

Batteries last the lifetime of the device now to.

 

[Ravynmagi]

If a phone can get me through a day on a charge (and so far I haven't had one that can't) and has 32GB of storage. Then I don't really need either a removable battery or micro SD card. Though I voted micro SD card because I can always make use of more storage.

I really hope Google isn't so damn stingy with the storage on the next Nexus phone. 16GB maximum is stupid Google, S-T-U-P-I-D.

 

[bonkers325]

battery. i can forego the microSD card since i can root and use USB OTG + usb stick if i really need it.

 

[darkewaffle]

Can I go with neither?

Gun to my head SDcard since I've got a bunch of music I'd like access to but I'd sooner just keep a smaller selection available rather than swapping cards. I'm really looking forward to phones hopefully/eventually having 120GB+ onboard storage though.

 

[Zaap]

Good question, also a tough one since both are very important to me.

If I had to choose, I have to go with SD card. I like the fact that most of my important files/data are stored externally so that even a factory reset doesn't delete them. Even if I had a phone with 100+ gigs of onboard I'd still prefer to have files like photos and vids stored on SD card. Just like a standalone camera, it just makes more sense to me that files are recorded to an external card.

(And by the way, in terms of batteries, it'd be just as clunky in my view to have a standalone camera without external batteries. Anyone who has a decent camera setup and claims they don't swap out batteries/power source in order to keep the device in infinite use as opposed to some clunky tethered charging- is either lying, or not very tech-savvy. Phones clearly gain a similar benefit).

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Neither if you give me:

a) Great battery life to begin with
b) Decent storage.

Given the state of my Nexus 4, I'd say SDcard is more important.

Quite honestly, removable battery is overrated. Maybe if you are out and about in a city walking around the whole day? I dunno. But with battery packs offering such convenience (everyone in Asia has one), I'd say that's all you need. You don't see Ingress players swap batteries. They all carry battery packs.

 

[Red Storm]

Neither if you give me:

a) Great battery life to begin with
b) Decent storage.

Given the state of my Nexus 4, I'd say SDcard is more important.

Quite honestly, removable battery is overrated. Maybe if you are out and about in a city walking around the whole day? I dunno. But with battery packs offering such convenience (everyone in Asia has one), I'd say that's all you need. You don't see Ingress players swap batteries. They all carry battery packs.

Not having to send your phone in just cause the battery goes bad and being able to go from dead to full charge with a simple swap are very nice things to have. A battey pack does you no good unless you have the time to sit there and let it charge your dead phone. Instead I can just swap the battery and go, no wait.

 

[corkyg]

It really depends on how ,one uses the smartphone. My use would let me choose "Neither."

 

[Insomniator]

Never come close to using up the internal storage, not even sure what my current phone has.

I have like 3 batteries, extended, oem blah blah blah... never ever change them though. Too much of a hassle.

I say 'neither'

 

[Axon]

SD card on paper, but you'd be surprised how much a replaceable battery can do towards saving your ass. It seems pointless...until you need it. Like a spare car key.

 

[poofyhairguy]

SD card on paper, but you'd be surprised how much a replaceable battery can do towards saving your ass. It seems pointless...until you need it. Like a spare car key.

Exactly.

The spare battery is not for the average day. It is for that one day a year when you go on vacation and you separated from your family to go shopping and you need to meet back with them later but after a full day of calls and photos your phone wants to die. On that day the spare battery might as well be gold plated it becomes worth so much to you.

 

[dagamer34]

Exactly.

The spare battery is not for the average day. It is for that one day a year when you go on vacation and you separated from your family to go shopping and you need to meet back with them later but after a full day of calls and photos your phone wants to die. On that day the spare battery might as well be gold plated it becomes worth so much to you.

Assuming you have that spare battery charged anyway. The big problem is that you can't change both removable batteries at once since removable batteries do not have microUSB ports. Battery pack will charge any place there is a USB port or power outlet. Already a major win.