"BCS" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Hello Nick, > >> Ugh, don't even get me started on MicroSD. Ordinary SD is already too >> small if you ask me, although I still put up with it anyway. Now >> MicroSD, well I can't say anything about it without raising my blood >> pressure... >> > > My point was that space (volume) is not what limits how much space (GB) a > phone has. >
And my link dispelled that myth. Try putting 200GB+ into a MicroSD form factor at the cost of a 2.5" HDD. Yea, eventually that'll happen, but by then I could get a HDD many times bigger than that for the same price. >> Besides: >> http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.phtml?N=4294966955+42 >> 94953566&sht=Any&prt=NewProduct& > > If I wanted more sortage than I can put on flash cards, I'd breing a > lap-top. OTOH: this is the class of phone I use: > http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/Motorola-Stature-i9-US-EN > You're not everyone. Some people would rather have HDD-level storage capacity. > In this day and age, you would be hard pressed to suggest a smart > phone/PDA needs more than a 1 maybe 2 USB ports. You might, just maybe, > talk me into believing that an HDMI port could be handy. But that would > really push it. > Ugh, I hate HDMI, but that's a whole other discussion ;) > >> - TV Out (for picture/video-viewing, and there's a million different >> kinds >> of TV-Out these days) > > USB can do that, and at the image quality a smart phone can drive it > wouldn't be a bottle neck. > News to me. >> - Back before built-in cameras became common, I could have said >> "camera". >> All just off the top of my head, there's probably others. >> > > And as I pointed out to Walter, are those things you want to ADD or do you > want them in there to begin with? > 1. I don't want to pay for features I don't need, or don't need right away. And I'm the only one who can effectively decide what I do or don't need/want and when. Therefore, a system that's based around expandability beats the hell out of "You get whatever we choose to pre-package together for you." 2. Expandability provides a level of future-proofing (much moreso if you don't limit it to USB). Unlike all the sheep out there, I'm not interested in disposable gadgets.
