Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:45:55 +0000, BCS wrote: > 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!
I have 32 GB micro-sdhc cards (class 2 or 4) on my phone and 64 GB compactflash (don't know the class, but approximately 90 MB/s) on my camera (Canon 7D). Both could have more space. The camera doesn't compress video very well despite quite high price so the maximum video length is only few minutes. > >>>> 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. >> >> > 1) I don't want an HDD in my phone. Moving parts? Ouch! 2) That will > always be cheaper as an external HDD. Some people will want to use their > phone as a weapon, should that also be a design criteria? I'd like to have 128..512 GB of storage in the phone. Why? My media library (hundreds of CDs & DVDs transcoded -> mp3/ogg or xvid). I think this is even possible with two 64 GB sdxc cards. Podcasts. TV series. Games. Photos converted to JPG @ 1080p resolution for powerpoint & other purposes. > >>> 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 ;) >> >> > I just picked the smallest video connector I could think of. The mini-HDMI is pretty decent. There are no better alternatives that I know of at the moment. 1080p video + multichannel audio, quite small. My phone & cam both also have micro-usb 2.0 connectors. Pretty good. Waiting for usb 3.0.