Athanville
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No SD card actually also means your device uses less power because think about it, you are asking your phone to read something from another piece of circuitry and play it, means tasking the processor even more.
Money, it's always about money. No sd card slot means you have to pay more, much more, to get that extra storage. It has nothing to do with anything else. It's simply greed showing it's ugly grin to the consumer.
I believe it all comes down to the number of intense graphic games and number of music albums you have on your phone.
I personally don't see the point of having an entire music collection on a phone. Two or three new albums that I feel like they fit my mood in a given moment are enough and if for some reason I want to listen to something else I can listen to it in the cloud, so 500mb of music are enough for me at a time.
Games is the same. Who needs more than 3 intense graphic games at the same time? I play a game, finish it, delete it and start a new one. If I want to play some again later, just download it again.
Have you seen the HTC one M8 and all the Sony Xperia phones. They have SD card slots and slim designs. The Xperia Z2 and HTC One M8 have no compromises. Nokia are just being dumb.I'm not buying this argument though. Most phones don't even offer different sizes to "milk it" much with this kind of idea. Flagship phone prices are pretty similar across the board anyways outside like.. iPhones that actually do different kind of sizes.
The physical build of the device is a huge reason for leaving one out. Just think how much space a slot like that will take and it requires compromises to the actual frame etc
Two things:
1 - If you buy a phone with a 41mp or a 20mp shooter, one presumes you take photos with it. Now, thinking about the 1020, for example: I just took 19 photos out of it. You know what size those 19 photos took (and I'm only talking about the size of the high-resolution ones)? 220MB. And I WASN'T shooting in RAW. If I were, those 220 would easily become 440MB. For 19 photos.
So the photos alone can eat up a lot of space, specially the higher the shooter megapixel counter. The 930 has 20mp already which means it will fill faster than the 920. 32GB go away in an instance.
2 - Some of us more hardcore gamers can't do that. We hop and switch from game to game. And the "If I want to play some again later, just download it again" it would work IF all the games on WP had cloud saving. Which they don't. Meaning, 90% of them, if you uninstall them, you lose all the progress. And as far as I understand, 8.1 didn't REALLY solve that as it requires developers to update the game to allow the game data to be backed up.
But, as you can see, it all comes down to the way you use your device, there are no rights or wrongs here. Some are fine with "just" 32GB... You can't tell that they are wrong because of it, just like they can't tell that the SD card slot on the 1520 shouldn't be there because for them it is a waste of space and resources.
This post sums it up really. Can someone close this thread now please?Exactly and that's why we, who need microSD cards, complain about the lack of one in a phone that's supposed to be the flagship when every other single phone in the Lumia range has it. Better have it and don't need it than need it and don't have it. That's the entire point in this and why I think the OP was wrong.
There's nothing good about the lack of microSD. Nothing.
I believe it all comes down to the number of intense graphic games and number of music albums you have on your phone.
I personally don't see the point of having an entire music collection on a phone. Two or three new albums that I feel like they fit my mood in a given moment are enough and if for some reason I want to listen to something else I can listen to it in the cloud, so 500mb of music are enough for me at a time.
There's nothing good about the lack of microSD. Nothing.
You never know if people who don't need it may argue that having one is a waste of resources, increases the price, etc... Their opinion... You can't say that they are wrong when this is totally a subjective matter.
I believe it all comes down to the number of intense graphic games and number of music albums you have on your phone.
I personally don't see the point of having an entire music collection on a phone. Two or three new albums that I feel like they fit my mood in a given moment are enough and if for some reason I want to listen to something else I can listen to it in the cloud, so 500mb of music are enough for me at a time.
Games is the same. Who needs more than 3 intense graphic games at the same time? I play a game, finish it, delete it and start a new one. If I want to play some again later, just download it again.
The 5C is the refurbished version of the 5 which, unlike previous phones, was removed. So you basically have one phone per generation, unlike on Android and Windows Phone. Currently on Apple you have the iPhone 5S. The iPhone 5C is last years iPhone 5 and the 4S is the one from 2 years ago.
So it makes no sense talking about an iPhone "flagship" when you have only 1 phone per generation. If you go considering the refurbished 5 and the 4S, you'd also go considering the 920 and the 800 as well as the S4, S3, S2 etc. I don't think it makes sense. The 920 is the flagship of the 2nd generation of Nokia Lumia devices. The L930 is the flagship of the 3rd generation of Nokia Lumias (which this time has only 2 phones). Whatever Microsoft Mobile produces next will be the first generation of Microsoft Lumia devices which will most likely have Goldfinger as the flagship.
The M8 is HTC's current flagship of 2014 devices. The S5 is Samsungs.
As for the iPhone, we MAY see the first REAL iPhone flagship if the rumours about the launch of 2 new iPhones this year - the iPhone 6 and the iPhablet - come true.
And have you tried streaming music on a long car journey? Very frustratingSome of us are on limited data packages and don't have access to Wi-Fi on a consistent basis. The cloud may work for you, but it doesn't work for everyone.
I have. Worked just fine. But i guess it really depends on your country/region.And have you tried streaming music on a long car journey? Very frustrating
You don't know what "refurbished" actually means, do you? Rhetorical question. Also, the only iPhone that hasn't been a flagship is the 5C. Sorry to break it to you, but at some point or another, ALL iPhones beside that one HAVE been flagships for Apple. True story.
You never know if people who don't need it may argue that having one is a waste of resources, increases the price, etc... Their opinion... You can't say that they are wrong when this is totally a subjective matter.