Samsung Debuts Grand 2 Mid-Range Phablet
Another Point Made.
I'm telling you. The industry is backwards. It should be the high end phones that allow more versatility. Not the other way around. Is anyone else seeing this absurdity?
John B.
The Jolla device has "The Other Half" to allow for mating to the device anything from an additional battery to a Cuisinart, as long as it has the same I2C interface. It also has a microSD slot and a user replaceable battery.The Jolla device appears to be somewhat high end.
The market is moving and, if looking, one can find a mix of hardware and software features at many different points in the market.
This brings up the point that PCs always allowed for swapping hard drives, memory, video cards etc. A high end device such as today's phones are powerful enough to allow a person to ...
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Slammer said:
My bone of contention is that even tech sites across the web such as this one, seem to celebrate eliminating consumer control in favor of manufacturer manipulation to control every aspect of the end user's experience. Consistently, embarking on a quest to push all metal construction at the sacrifice of eliminating expandable memory and removable batteries. I say give us metal AND easy accessibility without sacrifice. As it stands, no one seems to be fighting for equal balance.
Could be that this and other sites are being sponsored by phone manufacturers?
(Or at least getting their cut from them.)
I doubt that any of the high ones to run this place are unaware of the benefit of having re...
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