Give it time man....we all will end up with no SD and 8 gigs.....forcing the cloud
We're nowhere close to being there.
Give it time man....we all will end up with no SD and 8 gigs.....forcing the cloud
Okay, you build a phone with the specs the DNA has and see if you can fit a microSD card in AND do so without ticking off the carrier that's supposed to market it for you. In the meantime, the rest of us should listen to the people that actually designed the phone.
Samsungs phones are successful because of marketing, not because they include SD slots.
Jerry amen. The implementation of SD-Cards specifically on Samsung devices make them completely useless for app storage.
Apparently customers don't. Or perhaps you missed the fact that handsets without external storage are increasing in number, and their sales haven't been hampered one bit by the lack of an sd card.
And you know this how? Interesting you attribute Samsung's success to marketing, but are clueless to the fact that the HTC statement is clearly a marketing statement.
The ability to add microSD memory was certainly a factor for me in choosing the S3 over the HTC One X, along with the removable battery.
Love how people are dismissing the battery based on spec alone.
Haha! Yeah, those specs are really meaningless, aren't they? After all, no one looks at specs before they buy a phone, they just look to see if it looks pretty.
What basis would YOU suggest using to compare the battery (and other aspects) of the phone vs. others to make a decision whether or not to buy one? I think most intelligent folks would use the SPECS.
Some of us have said form the beginning that SD card support (especially apps 2 SD) was a horrible idea. Having to read countless threads like this when OEMs realize it and stop using them is a big part of the reason why. At a technical, OS level, SD cards are horrible. They can't be used as hardcoded storage because they can be removed. They can't have a secure filesystem because they need to be readable on Windows computers. They cause app developers to code for iOS first because OEMs don't have the skill or desire to implement them correctly. They put money directly in Microsoft's pocket with each device sold.
The good news is that Samsung won't ever be able to figure out how to implement them without spending money in engineering, and phones running 4.2 and higher just won't have them. Now if they would only get rid of the menu button so Android app development could advance.
You still would have to retool the assembly line to build it. Which costs money.
Taking an educated guess, I would bet Samsung has separate lines for the different models. They have enough demand and they have the resources.
But if they don't have different lines.... from what I have seen in my field of work, tooling up for the first time for a part or process is where the major costs are. After that first time, all the engineering, machining, and fixtures needed are done. Therefore, the costs are greatly reduced to re-tool for that part any time after. So switching back and forth wouldn't be so expensive. It does however require a large upfront cost that maybe HTC couldn't swing, but Samsung can.
Just a guess.
Simple, as is the case now, don't use them for apps to SD, use them for media/data storage only, just the way they're generally used now. That's what people need large and expanding amounts of storage for.
Amazing, somehow you know more about Samsung engineering than the Samsung engineering department! (NOT) You've claimed this before and been asked, but I'll ask again since you keep bringing it up. Do you REALLY think we won't be able to access the media and data we've stored on SD cards in our S3's when they're upgraded to 4.2? Because, I call absolute BS on that.
Most people use reviews or real world experiences from friends/salespeople. the average consumer doesn't give a damn about 2020 mah vs 2100 mah if they can see that the two perform similarly. As long as the battery life is adequate for "regular" (read: non those of us on sites like these) users, the specs don't mean squat.
Haha! Yeah, those specs are really meaningless, aren't they? After all, no one looks at specs before they buy a phone, they just look to see if it looks pretty.
What basis would YOU suggest using to compare the battery (and other aspects) of the phone vs. others to make a decision whether or not to buy one? I think most intelligent folks would use the SPECS.
Yet people are still posting "how do I move my apps to the SD card?".
I read Jerry's post as "phones that implement 4.2 the way Google intended won't have expandable memory".
Gotcha... So I guess that's why every carrier website, every reseller website, every store display - lists the specs for each model they're selling - because nobody gives a damn about specs and no one pays attention. Umm, right...
Or at least the people who are marketing the phone?
And you know this how? Interesting you attribute Samsung's success to marketing, but are clueless to the fact that the HTC statement is clearly a marketing statement.
The ability to add microSD memory was certainly a factor for me in choosing the S3 over the HTC One X, along with the removable battery.
Or perhaps YOU missed the fact that the Galaxy S3 with external storage is THE largest-selling android handset in the market, bar none?
Haha! Yeah, those specs are really meaningless, aren't they? After all, no one looks at specs before they buy a phone, they just look to see if it looks pretty.
What basis would YOU suggest using to compare the battery (and other aspects) of the phone vs. others to make a decision whether or not to buy one? I think most intelligent folks would use the SPECS.
Just a guess, and your guess would be wrong. It doesn't require a large upfront cost at all. Its trivially easy to design a PCB to take memory chips of two (or more) different sizes in the same spot on the board. The chips are the same size, and the pinouts are almost identical, with just the addition of one extra bit of address meaning one extra pin on the larger device, and that pin position on the smaller device is there but not connected to anything. The assembly line doesn't have to even know which model it is, except for stocking the line with the proper rails of memory chips of the desired size.
You know the GS3's expandable storage wasn't marketed right? Storage is not the reason it sold so well.
I don't know what you're talking about. During the Olympics, there was a giant "The Samsung Galaxy S III has an expandable memory slot! Buy buy buy!" banner in one of the stadiums.