thank you!
internal memory = speed, convenience, and security.
not like anyone going to try to unsolder your memory chips. with mSD 5 seconds and there goes your data.
not to mention powering the mSD card requires power and makes phones thicker.
I think mSD card slot availability is one difference between a rich and poor country. in Rich countries, people just buy higher storage and high-end phones with no mSD cards such as high-end Lumias and iPhones thrives while in poor countries people are too poor to buy good phones with ample storage that is why they need the mSD crutch. example: Lumia 920 comes with 32 GB default which is good enough. Lumia 520 only has 8 GB.
Most androids are fully dependant of the sd card and i don't see nobody complaining about the posibility of adding more memory, 32 gb for me is not enough because i'm a med student, and i make a lot video records for my anatomy classes, i can easily fill up both my phone's internal memory and the sd card in 1 day, and my point is, how come low end nokia phones more have more features than the high end, the lumia 930 doesn't have glance or sd card slot but a 720 does, it just doesn't make sense to me, a least with other brand, the low,mid and high are clear: low end have less features, mid end a few extra features than low end, and high end has all features.
The price argument is not true, at least in my country, in my university, which has more than 100,000 student, is infested with samgsun galaxy s 3 and 4, iphones, and other high end phones, and most of the people that choose android over iphone say: "yes the iphone is great, but it doesn't have sd card slot so i won't buy it". Heck, not having sd card slot is the reason why i don't have an iphone(you can get used iphones cheap in my country)
You may argue. "just use the cloud", that's the bloody thing, i don't want to, not because the service is not available but because is more convinient to use and sd card, uses less battery and during the day most 3g and 4g services are slow as **** because there's a lot people using it, for have an idea, in my country there're more phones than people, and we had to implement not 2 but 3 area codes.
It's not rue that the phone has to be thicker: sony xperia z1 says that's cute.
And in the bottom of all, since when is good to strip features from phones? it's like going backwards, i don't get this first world mentality, it's like you guys want to pay more for less.
I will tell you one of the sd card conveniences: let's say i have a movie i'm my sd card, and a friend wants it, with phones with sd card, we just need to insert my sd card with the movie in his phone and have him copy the movie to the phone's internal memory, then i get my sd card back, with phones with no sd card, is either find a laptop or a pc, the pass it the computer, then to the phone, or upload it to a cloud service then have him download it, see my point? and don't argue about viruses, so far windows phone is clean.
Don't tell me to use an pendrive, it's an smartphone, if my old sony ericsson w610 could be use as a pendrive, bloody hell, i installed windows from that phone m2 memory(sony used a propietary external card), because the phone would connect as an real pendrive, it was slow as ****, but that was in the windows xp era, and it saved my *** a few times where i had the win xp isos, but not a cd or a pendrive at hand, why can't a high end be use like that too?, or is it that you think that phones are only for social networks and playing angry birds?, i just don't like how this generation is going, most phone are designed to be obsolete in a year, and it seems you guys are happy about it, i had read a lot here in wpcentral, complaining about nokia not releasing a new flagships since the lumia 1520 in a long time, i don't think is bad, i think that's amazing, it's like you can't see that most of the new flagships are nothing but the same phone with better hardware(Cough cough samsung galaxy s3 - s4)
Other than the new hardware, what killer features does the 930 has that would make me choose it, instead of an 920? the 920 has glance and the 930 doesn't, and who cares about hardware spects? windows phone runs fine even with a toaster.
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