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Is running out of space actually a problem anymore? At least, if you have an SD card slot (which might be less often on Android than it used to be), you can ha
by scintill76 11y ago
Is running out of space actually a problem anymore? At least, if you have an SD card slot (which might be less often on Android than it used to be), you can have 64GB for $25, and several multiples of that higher for a bit more than proportional. But if I had to guess, this phone will emphatically not have an SD card slot, because it's a "cloud phone"! If you really want to focus on storage, it seems like multiple hot-swappable SD slots might be more interesting.
I recognize their vision is broader than that, but using cloud storage seemed like a big focus of the first product and of this article.
Also, it seems a bit premature to make new hardware. The article says they've got the software prototype running on Nexus 5, and they've already got some level of cloud sync publicly released on CyanogenMod (maybe CM11 only). I can understand not wanting to support every rooted Android device in the world, but it seems like they could get pretty far picking 3-5 existing devices they understand and feel are solid enough. If their vision is "“You should be able to really quickly authenticate to any piece of smart glass ... and really have your stuff available to you as you need it.”" they're going to have to run on arbitrary devices at some point... unless they are defining "any piece of smart glass" as "only our hardware."
- prawn 11y agoWe've seen attempts at modular phones, but I think that's misguided.I'd rather have an iPhone that has hot-swappable storage (SD card, as you said) for tailoring a phone to a particular situation. Sometimes I want to maximise space for storing photos, sometimes I want to switch in a music collection, or movies to watch on a plane.