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."

Comments

Re:Pointless

[zill]

To expand on your analogy: changing the air filter in this car voids its warranty because this car company is ran by tax-evading monopoly-forming assholes.

Re:Permanently modified?

[adolf]

You have to dig further into the links in the article to find out what is really happening.

So if we follow your link and find out what is "really happening," we find out that some blokes plugged a card into a phone and that it seemed to kill the card.

In other words, the sample size is exactly 1. Woopdie doo; shit happens.

There's a million perfectly good reasons for an SD card to die, and there is no reason at all to suspect that the phone killed it based on available information.

Wake me up when someone takes the issue seriously enough to pony up a measly couple of dollars for a new MicroSD card to try to verify the results.

*yawn*

Re:And they expect to sell those phones?

[Cylix]

Let's not bother with "what ifs" because they are simply bound anywhere in reality. What if I had the ability to fly... what if toasters consumed flesh to operator ... what if the sun burned out.?

Ignore the obviously flawed enhancement to your argument we can now focus on really what matters.

Here we have a phone that uses an SD connector and SD cards. It however requires a class of SD card that currently does not exist in the market today. Joe Blow doesn't really understand the details between random reads and throughput of a medium. To joe blow the SD card is an SD card and he is going to put the peg in the hole that matches. He is going to read the horse shit on the box because there are about fifty items of horse shit crammed into a tiny sarcophagus of a box.

Now let's also keep in mind that Joe Blow consumer (extraordinaire) has been conditioned through a life time of gadgets and whiz bangs that SD cards are quite removable. In fact, he might even so savy that he can remove the SD card from his mobile device and insert it into his PC or laptop. Remember, he has been conditioned to understand the peg board quite well.

To ignore any of these points regarding the consumer is just painting a big red failure sign on the barn. At least before you could get some free dollars out of the mail pouch tobacco sign, but no longer because your barn has failure written all over it.

Same old story

[hduff]

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