why do you choose android?

[paintdrinkingpete]

I don''t know...I have had it both ways, and honestly, I don't see any difference between SD and embedded memory. Except that SD is safer and more expandable.

Example (a real one): I just came back from a cruise a week ago. My Nexus 5 was dunked in the ocean...it was completely ruined (Salt water will corrode electronics quickly, so drying it out didn't help). If I'd had an SD card, I could have immediately taken it out and dried it off and salvaged all my pictures and video. Since all I had was internal memory, all those pictures and video are still trapped inside my now-useless phone (I had a diagnostic done...though the entire phone is now useless, the memory chip itself is intact). It would cost me a fortune to pay a data recovery company to mount my internal memory chip and get those pictures off of it. The pictures are still in there, but I have no cost-effective way to get to them.

I am more convinced than ever that all phones should have SD. There is no advantage at all to having only-internal memory.

Even if you cannot install apps to SD, SD is still very very valuable IMO.

The other nice thing about SD cards is that it is easy to move that data from one phone to another, whether it be an upgrade or warranty replacement or whatever.

What I don't buy is manufacturers/carriers telling me that 16GB is sufficient because the phone supports SD cards. Yes, SD card support is an AWESOME feature and I love, but the simple fact is that it is not a *replacement* for sufficient internal storage, but rather a supplemental feature to provide removable media storage.

It is for this reason that I get why some iPhone proponents tout the lack of internal storage as a strike against Android, as many high end models simply don't have high capacity options (regardless of whether they support SD cards or not)...though this does seem to be improving. Sure, it's not enough of an issue to me to have me consider switching platforms (not even close), but none the less I "get it".