Don't be fooled, if you have a smartphone, your being followed everywhere you go. Being in the cloud doesn't matter, its GPS and your cell provider. If they want you they will find you, don't do anything wrong and it doesn't matter.
I was starting to enjoy the actual informed information from this thread... then I got so paranoid that I had to put on my tin foil hat...
Using SD cards allows you to have the most protection of your personal information. Using the cloud you give up any rights to you and your family's privacy such as facial recognition, bank account info, etc they are just trying to lull you into thinking it is safe, get use to being tracked every minute of your life and every place you go if you use the cloud.
I just pulled the trigger on a 64GB N5 preorder at best buy. Hoping to trade in my original Note as I was told on Friday it is a guaranteed 200. That plus the wireless charger they are including is giving me hope that power will never be a problem.
I am worried about storage. There really is no replacement for the SD card if you need that much storage locally and they keep growing. The thought that kind of storage is obsolete is foolish. The question though is how often do you need it. Cloud storage doesn't make local storage obsolete or vice versa. They each have there use case and I use both and not for the same thing.
I was never worried about the battery because they included wireless charging. The days of keeping a phone off the charger all day should be gone soon. Before you know it all kinds of furniture will include it. You care will charge it and pretty much any time you set it doe it will be gathering juice. The only people getting screwed in that scenerio would be folks that work outside continuously that would never sit down and have a place to put it other then there pocket.
The folks that will be hit hardest by the storage limit will be those that take 4k video though.
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With the strength of high end smart phones today they should have a productive lifecycle of 36mos. Anything less than that is unacceptable.
Having a device that is 100% at your fingertips is the function required doesn't matter if it last a week between charges. Being tied to a new electrical outlet for any time is unacceptable.
Using SD cards allows you to have the most protection of your personal information. Using the cloud you give up any rights to you and your family's privacy such as facial recognition, bank account info, etc they are just trying to lull you into thinking it is safe, get use to being tracked every minute of your life and every place you go if you use the cloud.
OP - glad you found what you like
All, please remember that all complaints about removable whatever need to be directed to the stickied thread that says, "all discussion about lack of MicroSD and removable battery must go here" in the thread title.
Before you give any grief about voicing there concerns or reasons for a comment in this thread you should be aware that apparently stickies don't show up in the android central app. This is the top thread at the time of my posting.
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Current location is only part of security. The data mining of you and your family is even more valuable.Your carrier already can track where you go so if you have a cell phone at all -- they can find you.
Current location is only part of security. The data mining of you and your family is even more valuable.
The OP made this statement:Here's a thread to discuss removable batteries and Sdcards http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...able-battery-must-go-here-13.html#post4613187
I'm really happy with Note so far on the hardware and the performance of the phone itself. It feels great in my hand and is very fast without any lag what so ever. The biggest surprise for me is the fingerprint scanner and on how accurate it is, I really didn't expect that. I'm also impressed with the sound quality of the speakers compared to the HTC M8, I assumed it wouldn't be even close to as good.
Don't be fooled, if you have a smartphone, your being followed everywhere you go. Being in the cloud doesn't matter, its GPS and your cell provider. If they want you they will find you, don't do anything wrong and it doesn't matter.