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The price for the 16GB there is bonkers, never mind the other! Their price without VAT is almost what most are charging with...Difference in price is just bonkers
Not unless Verizon offers a 32gb version. I have less than 2gb free on my 32gb S3, so no way a device with less than 10gb free out of box will work. No 32, no sale.
A lot of folks seem to not appreciate that an SD card does NOT add app storage. Offering this model only is nuts and an insult to heavier users.
Do widgets count against the storage then? for me I don't play many games and the apps I will download shouldn't be too bad storage wise..the rest like music? will be on the SD card.
Yes - however - depending on the widget, they often don't take up much.
to the contrary, i think more android users appreciate the difference between on board and sd card storage (when it comes to app use) than you might be giving credit for.
imo the main factor is the type of user. it kinda comes down to gamers and non-gamers.
i'd consider myself a heavy user (mostly business and leisure) and have more than 70 apps installed on my phone (which use ~2gb on board storage), but only a handful of games. media is by far the storage hog on my phone taking up over 20gb. all that stuff can go on an 32 sd card i already have. if i need more media storage i'll get a 64 gb sd card.
i can see gamers who use their phone as their main gaming device having an issue with only 16gb of storage. especially since all that stuff likes to reside in on board memory. but even then, 32gb on board might eventually be too little for gamers. my nexus 7 is my gaming device and since i don't keep much media on it the 32gb on board works.
strategically i think this is a decent move for vzw since it doesn't put even more distance between their release and the other carriers who are releasing before them. who knows why there is a wait for the 32gb s4, but it is odd. the sliver lining seems to be that most the carriers are waiting for the 32gb version and there's the fact that this phone supports sd cards. so based on the type of user, the 16gb will probably suffice for the large majority of consumers.
It was introduced officially in Froyo, but the GB implementation was better (moved lib as well as apk). But as everyone says, they won't be selling any devices which still have that feature.I think that it was Froyo and there was an Eclair app for it before that. (edit, maybe it was Gingerbread lol)
Sorry app devs, but sloppy design and coding practices are at the root of the problem here.
I can see that as a huge influence.. but I'm trying to wrap my mind around it taking over across so many manufacturers, with no (that I can see) carrier/provider resistance (meaning, "give us back one of our best marketing blings, you guys: this is basic Android stuff, we're not Apple.. blah etc").
Exactly.
What I want, no one makes -
- Sufficient storage so I don't have to manage one single thing, or, as little as possible, much, much less than now.
- All user storage accessed via USB mass storage, no more MTP, no more special PC add-ons to get to my stuff - all accessible with the world's simplest USB driver for any Windows, and no add-ons for a Mac or Linux PC.
- This can be done with an extra software layer between the USB port and memory storage, so stop telling me how hardware works, you manufacturers. If you can not figure how to apply an internal client/server model for that, pay me, I'll do it for you.
- And you can still share storage while connected, just like MTP, only without the Mickey Mousing around.
- Don't tell me that my internal storage has to be FAT32 to be accessed via USB storage. With a client/server model and a hardware buffer or two, that's not true.
- If there must be separate partitions for /data (where user apps+data go) and user storage, then give me a slider that I can use any time to raise one, lower the other
- If that's all one partition, fine. Do not break it into folders and hold my hand with MTP. Did I mention that I hate MTP? Because it basically sucks?
- No more bragging about how they've done me a favor with the new age of Honeycomb/ICS/Jellybean storage. The file system models are not modern, they're still stone age, better alternatives exist, fix it.
- Oh, yes you can span internal storage and an external card and address it all as one filesystem as far as the user is concerned. Advanced Linux platforms do this every single freaking day. Don't tell me you can't.
- Give me that with options that include 96 and 128 GB.
- If you want to use a card for that, fine. How about making the device recognize SDXC/UHS-1 instead of just SDHC/Class 10 and letting me triple my bandwidth?
- This just in, we're all sick and tired of hearing that widgets cannot go on to the sd card because of boot-time mounting issues and sd card speed. Fix it, we've only been complaining for years about that.
Except for one component described above, and I could be wrong on even that not already laying around somewhere, all of the technology I describe _exists_.
But it doesn't exist on a smartphone.
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