I have 1.6TB of music - Have around 120GBs of it stored on Play Music which I stream. Would never store music files on a phone, so microSD is pointless to me.
On the GS6. What's more of a deal breaker for you, no removable battery or no SD card?
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I have 1.6TB of music - Have around 120GBs of it stored on Play Music which I stream. Would never store music files on a phone, so microSD is pointless to me.
3 points:
1) Samsung are going to have to replace many batteries in the first year at a cost, for real or imaginary issues from long time Samsung owners. Under warranty? I don't know. Built in to the msrp?
2)
Samsung need to bring out a neatly designed clip on battery case/dock with at least the same capacity again, pronto; or over to you Anker. There's an aftermarket one for the iPhone 4/5, isn't there.
Bigger casing (ruggedized/formal) in lieu of far less battery anxiety for those occasions.
3)
Launch day needs to be a damp squib. Boycotted if you will. Samsung will need to lower the price and get the message. Paying full dollar on launch day is kicking yourself in the derriere ('****' will get sanitized).
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I said it already that I can live without the sd, I do without one now, and I don't trust them. Some can't do without, I understand. I can get by without a replaceable battery (if I get an external pack for occasions), but I worry it will deteriorate within a year.
Like @meyerweb I am not big into music from a phone, nor movies. I copy media to a pc and save some on Dropbox or One Drive.
It would be better to not need to do without though, so the S6 will need to be spectacular in tests, and I will need to compare the screen to my Note 3 (qhd v 5.7").
They are not getting my money on launch day - if I have it.
1) Samsung are going to have to replace many batteries in the first year at a cost, for real or imaginary issues from long time Samsung owners. Under warranty? I don't know. Built in to the msrp?
2)
Samsung need to bring out a neatly designed clip on battery case/dock with at least the same capacity again, pronto; or over to you Anker. There's an aftermarket one for the iPhone 4/5, isn't there.
Bigger casing (ruggedized/formal) in lieu of far less battery anxiety for those occasions.
3)
Launch day needs to be a damp squib. Boycotted if you will. Samsung will need to lower the price and get the message. Paying full dollar on launch day is kicking yourself in the derriere ('****' will get sanitized).
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I said it already that I can live without the sd, I do without one now, and I don't trust them. Some can't do without, I understand. I can get by without a replaceable battery (if I get an external pack for occasions), but I worry it will deteriorate within a year.
Like @meyerweb I am not big into music from a phone, nor movies. I copy media to a pc and save some on Dropbox or One Drive.
It would be better to not need to do without though, so the S6 will need to be spectacular in tests, and I will need to compare the screen to my Note 3 (qhd v 5.7").
They are not getting my money on launch day - if I have it.
Both are dealbreakers. More so the sd slot. Sucks because the metal and glass build is beautiful.waiting to see how the g4 compares before I decide what I'll be using my upgrade for
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I just hope Sony will still include SD. What good is tons of internal storage when you have to do a factory reset every time there's a big update? I'm without a working computer again so local external storage is important to me.
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I hear ya - I have it all backed up - I have the BillBoard top 100 from the 50's through 2008 plus some xtra stuff and to be honest I hardly ever listen to it.
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Both are huge deal breakers and I will not be getting an S6. I need an extended battery. Phones have a habit of breaking on me so losing a bunch of data because it's not on removable storage is another deal breaker.
I liked the Galaxy series because they weren't iPhones. Now that they are becoming iPhones I will be done.
I'll consider a Note if they don't follow the same path.
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I liked the Galaxy series because they weren't iPhones. Now that they are becoming iPhones I will be done.
I'll consider a Note if they don't follow the same path.
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The SD card slot is a deal breaker for me. I have a lot of media like music and podcasts. Also, I have kids and extended family so I take a lot of photos and videos and need the extra storage. It is terrible when you are on vacation and run out of storage.
Hopefully, the 64GB version will not cost so much, otherwise my next phone upgrade will be switching from Samsung to LG or HTC with a card slot.
Hopefully, the 64GB version will not cost so much, otherwise my next phone upgrade will be switching from Samsung to LG or HTC with a card slot.
Wait, what? You're kidding, right? I didn't hear anything about the price but if this is the case, Wtf Samsung?
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Who's going to be in that first line?
Sure it's pretty, so am I.
Unless I find out it's absolutely brilliant.... well, I'm still not paying that kind of money.
Samsung want iPhone sales from the Glitterati, the rest of us can make do.
Sure it's pretty, so am I.
Unless I find out it's absolutely brilliant.... well, I'm still not paying that kind of money.
Samsung want iPhone sales from the Glitterati, the rest of us can make do.
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I want the SD Card. I keep certain music on my phone for when I don't have data access. I don't even consider myself to be a "power user" and I still move apps onto my SD card to save on phone memory.
Expandable memory was my main reason for getting the S5 last year and not switching the Nexus. So depending on what they do with next year's model, I may be switching.
Expandable memory was my main reason for getting the S5 last year and not switching the Nexus. So depending on what they do with next year's model, I may be switching.
Samsung S6
Watched the Videos on the Samsung Galaxy S6. They are all excited about their new phone.
We lost the removable battery. And most of all we lost the SD card slot for storage.
I have already been on samsungs site chatting with them. They are sorry that I'm unhappy.
I'm not their design engineer. I'm not the one that took off the plastic back
Nor took the water proof advantage away.
Now you have to make the deceision which phone do you want to pay for.
Me I think I may leave and go back to Apple.
Have lost all my Hopes of what was important to me in a Samsung Galaxy Phone .
The things I though rocked in it will be gone.
Just because it don't have a plastic back and its not all fancy for the Fancy people.
Watched the Videos on the Samsung Galaxy S6. They are all excited about their new phone.
We lost the removable battery. And most of all we lost the SD card slot for storage.
I have already been on samsungs site chatting with them. They are sorry that I'm unhappy.
I'm not their design engineer. I'm not the one that took off the plastic back
Nor took the water proof advantage away.
Now you have to make the deceision which phone do you want to pay for.
Me I think I may leave and go back to Apple.
Have lost all my Hopes of what was important to me in a Samsung Galaxy Phone .
The things I though rocked in it will be gone.
Just because it don't have a plastic back and its not all fancy for the Fancy people.
Both are deal breakers. No thanks Samsung. Extremely disappointed.
I have a Galaxy S4 that I bought in May 2013. My contract is up in 2 months so I was looking forward to the S6.
My issue with the battery is that I had to replace mine a few months ago. It wouldn't last the entire day so it was probably nearing the end of its life. NO WAY I'm going to send my phone to Samsung or anywhere else for battery replacement, something I can easily do myself by buying one off of eBay. My wife's S4 had the same issue; I had to replace its battery which wasn't a big deal. I like the flexibility of doing it myself.
And regarding the SD card, that offered flexibility as well. I'm nearing my phone's storage limit right now and I imagine I'd need to use an SD card at some point in the future. This seems like a blatant money grab. Force customers to pay an extra $100-200 for more space, something they could have achieved by buying an SD card for $20-ish instead.
Samsung/Android were all about more user control. What happened Samsung? Why are you dumbing down your next flagship phone? If I wanted something dumbed down I'd go to iPhone.
I have a Galaxy S4 that I bought in May 2013. My contract is up in 2 months so I was looking forward to the S6.
My issue with the battery is that I had to replace mine a few months ago. It wouldn't last the entire day so it was probably nearing the end of its life. NO WAY I'm going to send my phone to Samsung or anywhere else for battery replacement, something I can easily do myself by buying one off of eBay. My wife's S4 had the same issue; I had to replace its battery which wasn't a big deal. I like the flexibility of doing it myself.
And regarding the SD card, that offered flexibility as well. I'm nearing my phone's storage limit right now and I imagine I'd need to use an SD card at some point in the future. This seems like a blatant money grab. Force customers to pay an extra $100-200 for more space, something they could have achieved by buying an SD card for $20-ish instead.
Samsung/Android were all about more user control. What happened Samsung? Why are you dumbing down your next flagship phone? If I wanted something dumbed down I'd go to iPhone.
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Also, if your phone breaks in some way that you cannot remove said files i.e. it bricks itself, screen breaks etc, all files are lost instead of pulling the card and transferring the card to your new phone.
This is another $ grab by $am$ung to force us to buy extra cloud storage (I'm sure the S6 will come with some promoted source for this) so we can backup every overnight.
Re: Samsung S6
You went on Samsung's site chat to complain you weren't happy about their new device.. Smh
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You went on Samsung's site chat to complain you weren't happy about their new device.. Smh
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Re: Samsung S6
Yep. And they had sombody to come on and chat.
Told them I had been waiting for this phone. But with no SD card and removable battery. I might as well go back to Apple.
What set them apart from the other phones was those 2 things.
Now you buy the phone with the storage you want. Just like Apple.
To go from a 16gb on apple to 32 is 100.00 or better.
I am very unhappy they messed up a phone.
Their design engineers in my opinion messed up the phone .
Didn't you watch the Video where they said they listened to what we wanted.
Well I never wanted all they took away.
Yep. And they had sombody to come on and chat.
Told them I had been waiting for this phone. But with no SD card and removable battery. I might as well go back to Apple.
What set them apart from the other phones was those 2 things.
Now you buy the phone with the storage you want. Just like Apple.
To go from a 16gb on apple to 32 is 100.00 or better.
I am very unhappy they messed up a phone.
Their design engineers in my opinion messed up the phone .
Didn't you watch the Video where they said they listened to what we wanted.
Well I never wanted all they took away.
I just went and upgraded from a 32gb to a 64 GB in my S5.
Got ring tones and all I didn't want to loose.
Was ready to pull the SD card out and stick it in the S6.
Really don't know what the folks at Samsung was thinking.
So much for easy to setup a new phone.
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