Microsoft's 'Pink' Phones Will Support microSD Cards
Causes WAY more problems than it solves
1) The OS can hot-swap to built-in flash memory for things like application caching, OS caching, etc. Can't do that with an external memory card.
2) Developers can't assume that that memory is always present, so they're limited to whatever is built into the phone. (Android devs know this the hard way). If I've got an app running off of a memory card and my phone loses contact with it, I've gotta write in a way for it to wait until it detects the card again so a user doesn't have to re-launch an app. P.S. that stinks.
3) Memory card readers fail. I'm sorry, this isn't an "if" , but a "when." The more you use them, the more crud that gets in the contacts, the more they wear out. ...
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What about the appeal of manufacturing one device that has complete flexibility with regard to price vs. memory? The carrier can decide at any time to offer it cheaply, with no (or small) memory included, or for a little more, with a generous card pre-installed. Likewise, a consumer can buy it cheaply, or buy it cheaply and then add as much memory as they need, paying only as much as they need to, then just leave that card in the phone for good.
Manufacturers often design for this, which is why you still see them sometimes putting the card under the battery, etc. That way they can still do the OS memory tricks you mentioned, since ho...
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This is going to be good! I am eagerly awaiting bluecoyote's erudite response.
"What about the appeal of manufacturing one device that has complete flexibility with regard to price vs. memory?"
We're hitting the age of 8-16GB standard on many midrange to high-end phones (see Palm Pre Plus on Verizon.) I'm willing to guess the money saved cheaping out on internal memory and installing a card reader + bundling a memory card is small potatoes now and is likely to get smaller since phone OS's are more robust. So I'm not buying it from a hardware perspective.
Putting the card under the battery
Although this discourages hot swapping, this doesn't change the fact that it's vulnerable to losing contact. (Yup, it happened in my NGage and almost every S60 device I've owned from back in...
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1) I didn't mention the iPhone once. But the iPhone's a great example as to the 'less is more' mentality. In fact, it's funny that the things the iPhone doesn't have (removable battery, etc.) are often problems for other devices (Palm Pre and Motorola Droid.) Think it's just Apple? ....
2) Let's put it this way- in their OS rewrites, both Palm and Microsoft axed reliance on external memory cards.
3) Ok, so how much internal memory should a manufacturer include? 8GB? 16GB? Then who's going to care about a card reader? I think it'd be a bigger inconvenience to have to have files split up between directories. The built in memory...
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With SD memory, there is a good probability of the card being undamaged, and it can be recovered.
You didn't have to. Your past agenda speaks for itself and anyone who has observed your posts here already knows what you are going to say before you say it. Face facts, man.
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