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No hotswap of microsd, thenNo hotswap of microsd, thenPosted Aug 29, 2007 22:16 UTC (Wed) by mjr (guest, #6979)In reply to: No hotswap of microsd, then by eru Parent article: A first look at the OpenMoko Neo 1973
First, yes, these are limitations, no doubt about it.
As to their seriousness, time has pretty much proven that this is not a killer misfeature, since most phones do it this way. By far the most common use case is to stick those two cards in there once and use away. It's not an unreasonable design compromise, suboptimal as it is.
Of course, this phone's initial target group probably wants to swap their cards around more than the usual people. One would hope that OpenMoko takes off and we'll have new hardware models offer more options as for features and case design.
Meanwhile, ah well. 4 GB µSDs are on the market, 8 announced to be coming up. I shan't be overly concerned about swapping them in my use. YMMV.
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Waiting for 8GB MicroSD cards Posted Aug 30, 2007 5:54 UTC (Thu) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link] I'm eagerly waiting for the 8GB MicroSD cards to appear, since they'd fit my future Neo perfectly. That way I could take my CD collection (heavily recompressed for mobile usage) with me also in Neo, not just the Trekstor Vibez FLAC/Ogg player I currently have.
The first 4GB cards aren't terribly expensive, so it's not going to be too bad for the 8GB cards either, probably.
It's incredible that 8GB can be fitted in an area smaller than a fingertip.
Waiting for 8GB MicroSD cards Posted Sep 1, 2007 20:19 UTC (Sat) by pdundas (subscriber, #15203) [Link] I'm hoping the slot is SDHC and will therefore support >2G, rather than plain old SD. The wiki says "it should work", which is kind of encouraging...
Waiting for 8GB MicroSD cards Posted Sep 7, 2007 11:15 UTC (Fri) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] See http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Talk:Neo1973_Hardware - seems like the built-in SD controller doesn't support SDHC / SD 2.0, but there is a software way around this, and some Linux kernel work on SDHC.
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