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Sad to see no SD card slot. I know that's not Google's thing, but Asus and Samsung have defied them in the past to include them in Nexus models and I was hoping

Sad to see no SD card slot. I know that's not Google's thing, but Asus and Samsung have defied them in the past to include them in Nexus models and I was hoping HTC would follow suit. That said, I hope this sells well. HTC badly needs some success.

Sanddancer 12y ago
Last year's nexus 5 didn't have an SD card slot either. They're pretty much a dying breed at this point.
- polshaw 12y ago
  No nexus has ever had an SD card slot [ED: since the nexus one!]. It's their thing, to push people into the cloud. >dying breed Rubbish, quite the opposite: every (other) flagship android phone has one this year: S5, One M8, LG G3, xperia Z3. Every windows tablet has one. Compare this to the last round when it was pretty much just the S4.
  - differentView 12y ago
    Nexus One does.
  - nl 12y ago
    (New) Moto X doesn't.
    - nl 12y ago
      I assume by the down votes I'm wrong? I checked some reviews and they all say it doesn't have one. Has it changed?
- zanny 12y ago
  In general, no way. In Nexus, well yeah, Google wants you spending money on cloud storage. Until we all have affordable wireless signaling at 300+MB/s without stupid data limits, then local storage matters.
- Igglyboo 12y ago
  They're only dead for Nexus phones because of license costs and cloud storage etc.
izacus 12y ago
Ehm.. no nexus since Nexus One had SD card slot. Which Nexus models are you talking about exactly?
- kayone 12y ago
  and nexus one was also the only nexus to have an SD card. so I think he is talking about every nexus phone/tablet except the nexus one.
  - philsnow 12y ago
    Do you consider the G1 to be a 'nexus' ? It had a micro-sd slot.
hoeppnertill 12y ago
The reason for not including an SD card slot is that this second-class storage is said to confuse users. It mounts after the system sends the BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast and may be removed at any time. Consequently, some operations are (or were) forbidden, like installing apps on the sdcard. Explaining this to users is fairly hard and, by removing the slot, unnecessary. With 64GB inbuilt, I don't really see that as a problem, but for my 16GB N5 and N7, it's annoying at times. Also, file transfer on Linux is... improvable. I use adb to push my music onto the phone. :P
- 72deluxe 12y ago
  But you explained it pretty well in three sentences! Doesn't seem that hard to explain. People cope with SD cards in PCs and laptops and they are subject to the same restrictions / problems, and everyone appears to cope with them. Heck, even USB sticks can be removed whilst they are in the middle of writing (and I've seen people do it), and the OS will typically warn you. We haven't seen the removal of USB ports from machines with the same defence (although some PC manufacturers like to put clusters of USB ports all together so you can't actually plug in two USB sticks next to each other...)

Sanddancer 12y ago

Last year's nexus 5 didn't have an SD card slot either. They're pretty much a dying breed at this point.

polshaw 12y ago
No nexus has ever had an SD card slot [ED: since the nexus one!]. It's their thing, to push people into the cloud. >dying breed Rubbish, quite the opposite: every (other) flagship android phone has one this year: S5, One M8, LG G3, xperia Z3. Every windows tablet has one. Compare this to the last round when it was pretty much just the S4.
- differentView 12y ago
  Nexus One does.
- nl 12y ago
  (New) Moto X doesn't.
  - nl 12y ago
    I assume by the down votes I'm wrong? I checked some reviews and they all say it doesn't have one. Has it changed?
zanny 12y ago
In general, no way. In Nexus, well yeah, Google wants you spending money on cloud storage. Until we all have affordable wireless signaling at 300+MB/s without stupid data limits, then local storage matters.
Igglyboo 12y ago
They're only dead for Nexus phones because of license costs and cloud storage etc.

izacus 12y ago

Ehm.. no nexus since Nexus One had SD card slot. Which Nexus models are you talking about exactly?

kayone 12y ago
and nexus one was also the only nexus to have an SD card. so I think he is talking about every nexus phone/tablet except the nexus one.
- philsnow 12y ago
  Do you consider the G1 to be a 'nexus' ? It had a micro-sd slot.

hoeppnertill 12y ago

The reason for not including an SD card slot is that this second-class storage is said to confuse users. It mounts after the system sends the BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast and may be removed at any time. Consequently, some operations are (or were) forbidden, like installing apps on the sdcard. Explaining this to users is fairly hard and, by removing the slot, unnecessary. With 64GB inbuilt, I don't really see that as a problem, but for my 16GB N5 and N7, it's annoying at times. Also, file transfer on Linux is... improvable. I use adb to push my music onto the phone. :P

72deluxe 12y ago
But you explained it pretty well in three sentences! Doesn't seem that hard to explain. People cope with SD cards in PCs and laptops and they are subject to the same restrictions / problems, and everyone appears to cope with them. Heck, even USB sticks can be removed whilst they are in the middle of writing (and I've seen people do it), and the OS will typically warn you. We haven't seen the removal of USB ports from machines with the same defence (although some PC manufacturers like to put clusters of USB ports all together so you can't actually plug in two USB sticks next to each other...)