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I am finally in the market for a new mobile phone - my trusty MOTO FONE (F3)[1] finally died after three years. One of my absolute no-compromise feature needs
by rsync 11y ago
I am finally in the market for a new mobile phone - my trusty MOTO FONE (F3)[1] finally died after three years.
One of my absolute no-compromise feature needs is removable media ... an SD card slot that can accept the new 128 GB cards. This is because my current music collection is 68 GB in size and carrying the entire collection is one of my use-cases.
But ... I also want a non-crapware, pure android phone, and the nexus "reference model" idea always appealed to me.
So here's the new phone, and I need one, and click through, ready to pre-order. And then I see my storage choices are 16 and 32 GB. Like it's 2010 or something.
So I'm ready to purchase, card in hand, full price ... and willing to add on $250 or whatever clown-markup they have for the (non-existent) 128 GB model. And unfortunately we can't do business at all.
Maybe next time.
[1] The best phone I ever had - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone
- yoavm 11y agoWait, you had some kind of special edition of the Fone that had 128GB ?
- Sanddancer 11y agoNo, he had a Fone and a 128GB microsd card in it
- rsync 11y agoThe requirement to hold all of my music is as I make the switch to a smartphone. My dumbphone requirements were just redial and alarm clock.
- nickysielicki 11y agoGet a clip zip (~$30) and a 128gb sd card (~$50), put rockbox on it ($0), enjoy your entire collection in whatever codec you want, in a form factor that works better for exercising, with a week battery life to boot.
- irl_zebra 11y agoGood suggestions, I didn't know about the Clip or Rockbox until now. You wouldn't happen to know any way to listen to Spotify on a similar device do you? I don't have any mp3s as I've been using Spotify for years. Right now my solution has been to have a super cheap/small Android phone, install Spotify, and use it in offline mode reconnecting at least every 30 days. I got the phone for like $15 on a Radioshack sale or something.
- mjcohen 11y agoClip zip only accepts up to 32GB.
- provemewrong 11y agoOn paper. They work with SDXC cards if you format the cards as FAT32.
- nickysielicki 11y agoAnother reader already commented, but just to reiterate, this is not true. The stock firmware may only accept 32GB, but rockbox certainly can do 128GB cards.
- victorhooi 11y agoLet me ask you a question - how long would it take you to listen to 68 GB or 128 GB of music? My hypothesis is, you don't actually need 68 GB of music around with you. In fact, it doesn't confer any meaningful advnatages. Using http://www.richardfarrar.com/song-capacity-calculator-for-mp3-players/ http://www.richardfarrar.com/song-capacity-calculator-for-mp..., I can see that 64 GB of music at 256 KBps is around 559 hours of music - I really doubt you'd listen to any meaningful portion of that in a month. See, I used to have a 64 GB MicroSD card, and keep music with me. But then I just ended up using Google Music, and streaming everything. I can pick anything I want, and just listen to it on demand. Let's be honest, most people can't tell the different quality wise anyhow, so the quality argument is moot. And it's not like streaming music chews up that much bandwidth. Doing it this way means I can listen to my music on any device - my desktop, my laptop, my phone, tablet - etc., my playlists are synced, my most recently played lists etc. And I don't need to worry about having to backup my music (I used to do it on my NAS), or worry about syncing up new files. It's *incredibly convenient - and I can't see any meaningful disadvantages.
- wstrange 11y agoFully Agree. Google Music makes it easy to pin music to the device for the occasional time when you are on a flight and have no wifi. There is simply no need to cache more than 2-3 GB of music on the device.
- tomgg 11y agoWhat if you've resolved to only use free software? That means _Google Music_ is not an option.
- voltagex_ 11y agoSyncThing is a good alternative in that case.
- lucian1900 11y agoThen you're not very likely to use any phone, since at least the baseband will be closed source. Only free software is not practical in the slightest.
- on_and_off 11y agoI can't predict the future but Nexus + expendable storage seems very unlikely.
- SZJX 11y agoWhy do you need expandable storage if you get 64/128GB. I've never even managed storage on my 64GB Nexus 6 since I got it in February, and I have tons of audiobooks with hundreds hours of length already.