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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."
To help ensure a great user experience, Microsoft has performed exhaustive testing to determine which SD cards perform well with Windows Phone 7 devices....
Is frying SD cards that don't "perform well" with Windows Phone 7 going to contribute to that great user experience?
Mod parent up.
According to the article, you would not only lose the contents on the SD card, but on the phone itself, as Microsoft apparently formats phone memory and SD memory as one single file system. If you replace the card, the filesystem is corrupted.
"Permanent modification" in TFA could well mean "removal of the FAT filesystem", which for many people would seem quite permanent :)
Its not a warranty issue to remove a removable add in storage.
Lets call a spade an f'ing shovel and recognize that this is simply DRM under another name.
Still, I'd like to slap it into my Linux box and see what kind of FS they built on it. I doubt its too exotic, this is, after all, Microsoft.
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