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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
<p>It's poll time! As you know, Windows Phone 7 devices do not allow for removable storage cards in the traditional sense; even if you happen to find a phone with a microSD card slot that you can access, once you put a card in that slot it will force a hard reset. If you take the card out, it's unreadable on any device but your phone - the data on it is encrypted for speed and security. That essentially makes it non-removable storage. So the question is, does this matter to you? For me, it doesn't - I have an 8 GB microSD card that's inside my HTC HD2, and it literally hasn't been taken out from the day I put it in there. Before that, it was in my Samsung Jack, again never getting removed. For some of you though, this is an issue - you need to be able to remove the cards and use them in your laptop, desktop, etc. Vote in the poll - please generalize; I didn't want to cover every possible time frame - and sound off in the comments. Will the lack of removable storage stop you from buying a Windows Phone 7 device?</p><p><script src="http://static.polldaddy.com/p/4066230.js" type="text/javascript"></script></p>
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1) "encrypted for speed and security"?!?!? Are you kidding? Encryption introduces a speed penalty by introducing an extra layer of file management before the data is written down.
2) You DID remove the card from one device to another. THAT's excactly the reason why we'd want removable storage! So we can transfer these add-ons to other future devices when the time comes. This is fact the same reasons why "we" want standard cables like mini/micro-USB, standard headphoneports etc. So we can transfer our high-end expensive additionally bought headphones to our next-gen smart/musicphone.
M$ should have indeed diversified itself by introducing removable storage. In fact WM6.x has one o/t most easy uses with regards to removable storage (this is why I just don't understand M$'s excuse to avoid it). When you install a app it nicely asks if you want to install on internal storage or external storage (SD-card or other storage space). It seems we are getting less features for a faster cpu and nicer screen... but I didn't I mention this before?
What happens these days is that apparently only Apple is really advancing it's products while the rest is exchanging phone features for faster cpu's and nicer screens. WP7 has LESS features than WM6.x. If I'm forced to go backwards then I'll spend 150 euro on a Nokia featurephone not 500 euro again an a suposedly full featured smartphone (which is suposed to be better in every way to my current model).
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