Why you no have sd slot?

[socialcarpet]

luckily, the Lumia 920 is no veryon, though they are coming out with a sedan version, soon.

At any rate, think of the Lumia 920 as the Acura TL - thoughtfully done, several great and unique features, but it just isn't for everyone, and at times, it lacks a few of the other advanced features appearing in its class. I'd say NO phone has reached the 7 series, S class, Lexus LS level, yet, much less supercar territory... If any of that remotely approaches legible sense.

Nah the Lumia is the Mercedes E-class.

The HTC 8X is the Acura TL. :wink:

 

[jsk0703]

I have a 25Gb SkyDrive. Didn't feel the need for a SD slot.

 

[TonyDedrick]

lol @ 30+ gigs of music

Not sure why that's funny. I listen to pretty much everything outside of classical and death metal.

 

[Ruined]

This is a big problem for me, too. I could easily fill most of a 64gb SD card with my music library (transcoded to 128kbps), nevermind apps, etc. Even with a 32GB phone like the 920, it may be difficult to buy that if there is another 32GB Windows phone available with an SD slot. A 16GB phone with an SD slot may even be preferable to a 32GB phone without one in my case. If Nokia's successor to the 920 on Verizon fails to have an SD slot, I may go with another brand that does have one.

Of course, I'd still prefer 32GB on the phone itself in addition to the SD slot, as you cannot store apps on an SD card from what I heard.

 

[juanitoriv]

Not sure why that's funny. I listen to pretty much everything outside of classical and death metal.

This is, as I saw it and quoted earlier, a "huh".. As in why would you seriously "NEED" 30+gb of music on your phone, especially if you're home every, or at least most nights. Less than 2gb, even 1gb at lower quality, is plenty to have over 24 continuous hours of music playing. That said, I can definitely understand a desire to have maybe 5-6gb dedicated for music. A weeks worth of mp3's.

At "normal" usage, it'll take you months and months to get thru 30+gb of tunes on your phone. That is where the lol came from, as I see it. Humorous to me too. Just sayin.

 

[henry.gray]

I previously had a HD7 which had 16gb and I now have the 8X with 16gb, on both phones I never seem to use up more than about 5 or 6gb's and that's after apps and music. Personally I just stick to music that I would listen to rather than stick my whole collection onto a phone, even if the phone was capable of removable storage I do not think I would use it anyway.

 

[juanitoriv]

I previously had a HD7 which had 16gb and I now have the 8X with 16gb, on both phones I never seem to use up more than about 5 or 6gb's and that's after apps and music. Personally I just stick to music that I would listen to rather than stick my whole collection onto a phone, even if the phone was capable of removable storage I do not think I would use it anyway.

Exactly, I have months of music (that's played continuously, like well over 100 days). It would realistically take 1-1/2 to 2 YEARS to go through all that. I spend about 5 minutes every other day or so and sync what my mood tells me I'm going to want to hear.

 

[brmiller1976]

I'd say it doesn't have an SD slot for the same reason it doesn't have a floppy drive, Centronics parallel port, cassette drive interface, or VME bus slot. Obsolete.

 

[BU2B]

I can understand the desire for a Micro SD slot, but personally I'm fine without one. I don't store a lot of music on my phone, and I never have any video on there (unless I have recorded it on the phone). Nokia Music is a great solution, even with saving mixes offline - it doesn't appear to take up too much space.

 

[VelJharig]

This is, as I saw it and quoted earlier, a "huh".. As in why would you seriously "NEED" 30+gb of music on your phone, especially if you're home every, or at least most nights. Less than 2gb, even 1gb at lower quality, is plenty to have over 24 continuous hours of music playing. That said, I can definitely understand a desire to have maybe 5-6gb dedicated for music. A weeks worth of mp3's.

At "normal" usage, it'll take you months and months to get thru 30+gb of tunes on your phone. That is where the lol came from, as I see it. Humorous to me too. Just sayin.

If you use your phone as your primary/only portable music player, then it does make a difference. Especially with wireless sync now missing on wp8, it's not very convenient to copy music back and forth every night. That also presumes that you know in advance what you feel like listening to on any given day. The whole point and convenience of mp3 pmp's was to be able to take a good chunk of your music collection with you, and be able to decide on the fly what to listen to. I'm currently listening to a playlist that has about 50 hours of music, set to randomly skip between tracks. It currently lives on my phone as well as my computer. That's for 1 genre of music where 70% of the selections don't exist in the Xbox Music cloud, and there are 10-12 genres on my phone. Also, my entire collection is 320kbps mp3s, because I listen to it on decent equipment, where you notice 128/192kbps compression. That can start to eat up space fairly quickly.

Just because you don't use your device in a way that requires space for media doesn't mean that others who do have no valid reason. That doesn't even touch bringing video with you, which requires a lot more space (quite a few of my non-DRM videos are ~1GB each). I'm waiting for the Ativ S primarily because of the space restrictions on the other high end devices (that and the replaceable battery for gaming).

PS. - That one playlist I mentioned... it's about 3.3 GB of files, not counting the Xbox Music/Zune Pass tracks.

 

[juanitoriv]

And this is exactly why I said in a previous comment that I would not presume to judge. And again, as I said, don't buy a 'Vette when you really need a truck, a family man doesn't have a motorcycle as a daily driver.

Maybe I've just found a way to streamline my processes. And the manner in which I manage things. I won't say say that my way is right and another's is wrong. That's what people do on the other forums. I can just say that its right for me.

I don't sync the night before, but literally, the last 5 to 8 minutes of my morning before leaving home. Right before walking out the door.

This is the program I have, and "YAY!!" I can use. Had since like 2003.

http://musicmatch-jukebox.soft32.com/

Its super easy for music. As well as allowing different playlist support. My HTC shows up plug and play as WP8. Like seriously, it takes me just a few minutes to sync a few days of music.

Check it out.

In re: vids.. I have Netflix, Crackle and Flash Video player app as well. But as I'm also on T-Mo with unlimited 4G, I stream my tail off. Wow. Just looked, almost 10gb of data usage with 11 days left in my billing cycle..

 

[jeremyshaw]

Nah the Lumia is the Mercedes E-class.

The HTC 8X is the Acura TL. :wink:

Heh, I was thinking Acura tl or Volvo s60, but chose the Acura since its a bit more unique, but does reasonably well in the market. It is not for everyone, however. Every wannabe rich guy around here drives an e class, and probably has an iPhone of some sort.

...both top the charts in the new small offset crash test