Who cares really? I mean most of us have ONE freaking SD card, MOST of us bought our phones with a contract, MOST of us paid between $150 and $250. MOST of us are not even using up anywhere near 8 GBS of memory.
I get the "freedom" part... but if any of you had the experience with Android since really its inception, there is no doubt most freedoms have been taken away. For example, this garbage about "rooting", what trash. The whole attraction to Android initially was that it was up against the iPhone, once the iPhone blew up, Google and others saw that we like smart phones, so they jumped on the band wagon, BUT they had an OPEN Source, not closed like the iPhone.
Now your telling me I have to basically JAIL BREAK my phone to access features I was already supposed to be able to access?
LOL, I find it funny that people are actually hanging onto the one last thing they left "open" for us, and thats some SD Card slot.
There is no arguing that the iPhone and Androids are starting to "merge" as the data from what people want start to create a main stream, hell, even notice how some phones have "Mini's" now? Why? Because they know MOST people do not want 5.5" screens.
The Note was in no way expected to sell the way it did, but it did, to that certain market.
SD Cards go bad anyway in time.
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