"BCS" <n...@anon.com> wrote in message news:a6268ff1b9ca8cd1c2c66c86...@news.digitalmars.com... > Hello Nick, > >> "BCS" <n...@anon.com> wrote in message >> news:a6268ff1b9958cd1bfa01297...@news.digitalmars.com... >> >>> 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. >> > > I wouldn't. I'd put it in a package about 4-5 times as big and mount it on > the PC board. Besides, what the heck do you need more than about 32GB for > on a phone? If you need to shoot that much video, get a real camera! >
Like I said, there's two kinds of "phones": "phone" phones, and PDA "phones". For the former, I *still* agree with you. For the latter: If I were going to blow the money on a "smartphone" (as they're calling them now) or on some sort of iPad-like device (which is the other thing I've been talking about), I would expect it to replace a dedicated camera and a dedicated portable music player. And they can easily do so just by slapping a HDD in there. (BTW, by current music player, which also does video - a feature I rather like is 40GB and I find it uncomfortably tight. Plus, with that tightness, I can't really use it as an external HDD, which I used to do, and found very helpful.) I'm not interested in toting around twenty different gadgets. There can be only one!
