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Windows Phone Permanently Modifies MicroSD Cards, Warns Samsung
dotancohen writes "Don't put your MicroSD cards into Windows Phones. According to Samsung, doing so is a 'permanent modification' to the card, and it can no longer be used in other devices."
Your memory will be made to service us. You will be assimilated, resistance is futile.
I guess putting a MicroSD card into one of these phones probably would have to qualify it as "expendable"...
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
They turn into Blue MicroSDs Of Death, something very valuable for cyber ninjas.
May I respectfully suggest that you acquire a dictionary and use it to find out what everyone else in the world means when they say "acronym"?
Extra! Extra! Slashdotter vows to avoid Microsoft product! Read all about it!
for the slashdot crowd it should be nothing to hook it up to a mcu and zero it out in spi bitbang mode, so its only permanent for most people, but your right its flash, the only way to really fubar one is to burn out the gates
Windows Phone 7 requires a certified high-speed microSD card for optimal performance.
If "optimal performance" means for MS engineers "doesn't break things down", then it explains a lot of my experience. (Talk about lowering one's expectations!)
Ezekiel 23:20
May I respectfully suggest that you acquire a dictionary and use it to find out what everyone else in the world means when they say "acronym"?
Acronym is just a homonym for euphemism.
"The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance." -Thomas Jefferson
Larry Boucher intended SCSI to be an acronym all along. Pronounced "sexy." That didn't quite happen. I still think you're sexy, Larry.
From sexy to scuzzy in one easy lesson.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
First keep in mind that I work for an Electrical and Computer Engineering department at a university. We aren't training artists here.
So a group of students from a particularly problematic lab come and ask a completely nonsensical question. We can't even understand what the fuck they want, and suspect they don't know what they want either (this happens more often than you'd think). They want a converter cable, we get that much. With some difficulty and showing them various cables we arrive at the fact that they want DB9 to HD15. WTF? We tell them there is no such thing and could they please let us know WHY they want such a thing.
Well see they are giving a presentation using a laptop that is hooked to a projector. They need to hook up a second protector, so they figured they'd use the DB9, aka serial, port. Yes, really. They could not understand why this would be a problem.
Some people just want to plug anything in to anything and figure it is just a simple cable that'll make that happen.
That would require finding someone with a Windows phone. Happy hunting.