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No hotswap of microsd, then
No hotswap of microsd, then
Posted Aug 29, 2007 22:03 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)In reply to: No hotswap of microsd, then by eru
Parent article: A first look at the OpenMoko Neo 1973
Frankly I won't want an exposed SD slot in my phone, so it has to be under the back cover at least. But the battery takes up almost all the usable space back there.
Nokia phones with SD slots have them under the battery too, so that's hardly a disadvantage in the marketplace.
Anyway, the phone has USB. So, instead of swapping the SD card to replace your music, just upload it.
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Hotswap on Nokias
Posted Aug 30, 2007 5:10 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]
Nokia phones with SD slots have them under the battery too, so that's hardly a disadvantage in the marketplace.No, they don't, at least not all of them. I own a Nokia 6125 where the MicroSD slot is at the side of the phone, under its own tiny cover, and the card can be inserted or removed without shutting down the phone. This in my view is the only sensible way to handle MicroSD cards, which after all are just another type of removable media, just like floppies or USB sticks. As noted by others in this thread, there are plenty of reasons why one would want to swap the card often.
(Incidentally, my original comment was written with the above-mentioned Nokia, using Opera Mini as the browser instead of the built-in one.)
Hotswap on Nokias
Posted Aug 30, 2007 14:59 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]
Thanks, I didn't know that; I stand corrected.
Let's hope that the guys will be able to fit that kind of slot into the phone's next iteration, then. It does take up more room than the under-the-battery kind, and they already are committed to fit WLAN and/or accelerometers in the thing, along with all the other stuff in there.
No hotswap of microsd, then
Posted Sep 1, 2007 20:08 UTC (Sat) by pdundas (subscriber, #15203) [Link]
My nokia has the slot in the side, under the battery cover, but quite accessible while the phone is operational.
It would have been nice if the neo did something like that as well - but at least this way they don't need to worry about users removing media that have not been correctly unmounted and flushed. Simpler software for the v1 phone.