Petition For Memory Cards on Future Nexus Devices

[honex97]

I want a petition for removable battery's it upcoming nexus devices

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[Dave_k605]

The nexus devices will never have a expandable sd slot, Google has to pay Microsoft 15 bucks for every device that has extsd. The nexus is a pure Google experience, it will not come with a competitors product.

Internal memory is also much faster, so as you are loading pictures, viewing gallery the user experience is faster, smoother.

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[Chex313]

The nexus devices will never have a expandable sd slot, Google has to pay Microsoft 15 bucks for every device that has extsd. The nexus is a pure Google experience, it will not come with a competitors product.

Internal memory is also much faster, so as you are loading pictures, viewing gallery the user experience is faster, smoother.

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Google doesn't pay the fee, the manufactures of the phone do. So Google may compensate LG for the fee, but do we know that for a fact? Half of the useful features in Android originated somewhere else. Pinch to zoom for example and swipe to unlock for 2 examples.

 

[Dave_k605]

Google doesn't pay the fee, the manufactures of the phone do. So Google may compensate LG for the fee, but do we know that for a fact? Half of the useful features in Android originated somewhere else. Pinch to zoom for example and swipe to unlock for 2 examples.

It is no secret.

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[mknollman123]

I know that we need to share our opinions but these petitions never accomplish anything. Google is not a democracy and although w are the most dedicated we are not their most profitable demographic.

Android is making a hard run at and donating the mainstream. Normal people don't care about removable storage or batteries. Google will continue to make these devices as pretty and simple as they can - just be happy they are as open as they are now

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[ncguy]

The rumour mill has it the galaxy s4 is coming with a whopping 64MB of internal memory. I like removable myself but non-removable is obviously the way its headed.

 

[gnr_2]

As for external storage, I use that for movies and TV shows. Sometimes when I have to travel I get very little notice (fly out the next day) so I have one 32GB mSD card that I can pop into the HTPC. I set it up to batch-convert any queued up DVRed TV shows that I haven?t watched yet and let it convert about 10 or 12 hours worth of shows overnight. In the morning I pull the mSD card out of the computer and pop it into the tablet on my way out the door.

-Suntan

Hmm...while I don't care one way or another about the external storage missing - thought I would but it's been easy enough transferring files with the cord (Bluetooth is massively slow and needs babysitting.) - I *do* want to know the secret for moving things off my always full DVR! If only I understood how he did this. If only my DVR had removable storage.

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[skyrockett]

Expendable memory isnt secured. So yeah!

 

[anon(847090)]

Your petition has been DENIED!!!!

 

[slashdotdash]

USB OTG was about as close as we were ever gonna get to having expandable storage on our Nexi (excluding N1), but the N4 doesn't support it, so it's unclear as to whether or not we'll even have that option in the future on our handsets.

The newer Nexus 10 supports it afaik which I find odd - which could mean things were mucked up on LG's side and not because Google requested there be no support for it.

 

[ncguy]

USB OTG was about as close as we were ever gonna get to having expandable storage on our Nexi (excluding N1), but the N4 doesn't support it, so it's unclear as to whether or not we'll even have that option in the future on our handsets.

The newer Nexus 10 supports it afaik which I find odd - which could mean things were mucked up on LG's side and not because Google requested there be no support for it.

Is that true even for rooted N4s? My rooted galaxy nexus supports it and from what I understand read-only usb otg is supported on an unrooted galaxy nexus. It definitely makes sense for something like porting large movie media on overseas travel if you don't mind the screen size.

 

[patruns]

It's not about SSDs, it's about SD cards...Google won't allow them on Nexus devices because they think FAT32 (which almost all SD cards come preformatted to) is "unstable" and can "cause file corruption" (geez, that means don't buy a digital camera with an SD card slot...wait...)
I say, let the user decide if they want to keep everything on internal storage, and whether to use MTP or not.

You do have a choice. Don't buy a Nexus if you want a SD card slot. Don't buy Android if you want mass storage. Google has their reasons. Don't agree? Buy an iPhone.... oh, I forgot, Apple doesn't like SD cards either.....