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Nokia Claims a Memory Card Slot Would Have "Defiled" New Phone

Posted by samzenpus on from the not-in-the-face dept.

nk497 writes "Nokia unveiled its flagship Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 handset today, but it doesn't feature an SD card slot. There's a reason why: Nokia's designers didn't want to 'defile' the design. 'We started with the premise that we wanted an uncompromised physical form,' executive vice president Kevin Shields, said. 'To put an SD card slot in it would have defiled it.' He said most people don't use the storage in their phone, although the Nokia Lumia 820, which has only 8GB of storage, does include a micro-SD card slot behind its removable cover, which Shields claims doesn't compromise the design."

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  1. Call the lawyers by FriendlyStatistician · · Score: 5, Funny

    Surely Apple has a patent on undefiled designs?

    1. Re:Call the lawyers by mirix · · Score: 5, Funny

      They certainly have a patent on not including standard features.

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    2. Re:Call the lawyers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      my friend [...] she or he

      It must be a very close friend if you haven't yet discovered its gender. You are truly a master of implausible lies.

    3. Re:Call the lawyers by Canazza · · Score: 4, Funny

      and I'm a fat bastard, so my trouser pockets are oversized anyway. I can fit my phone *and* a chocolate bar in my trouser pocket.

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    4. Re:Call the lawyers by hairyfeet · · Score: 2, Funny

      Dude just stop with the she/he stuff and admit you have a tranny GF, okay? This is /. and we don't shock easily. Live and let live I say, and if that churns your butter more power to ya!

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  2. Good idea Nokia by stevenfuzz · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, you are doing so well you should definitively make-against the-grain decisions for your customers. I mean, no one uses storage, right? Why would you want to put more memory in there. I'm sure it had NOTHING to do with saving a few bucks.

    1. Re:Good idea Nokia by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

      I mean, no one uses storage, right?

      Since most, if not all people won't buy this phone, it logically follows that they won't be using storage in it either. Cutting down on the memory chips for the phone that nobody is going to buy saves manufacturing costs, so it's actually a clever business decision.

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    2. Re:Good idea Nokia by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think the bastards are just copying the iPhone which also has no SD card slot. Apple should sue them.

      Great business model: sue people for not doing things you're not doing.

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  3. No defiling by hawguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't wait until their next phone that will have no speaker or microphone since that would compromise the physical form and most people don't talk on a Smartphone anyway.

  4. What's the problem? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Couldn't consumers just take their defiled phones to a priest and get them blessed?

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  5. Oh, I got it! by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Funny
    Defile is the new word for unmount! You file the SD card when you insert it, and you defile it when you eject it!

    :-)

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  6. Re:So let me get this straight... by reboot246 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?

  7. Wrong Order by Bob9113 · · Score: 4, Funny

    'We started with the premise that we wanted an uncompromised physical form,' executive vice president Kevin Shields, said. 'To put an SD card slot in it would have defiled it.'

    Hmm, Kevin: If you're trying to channel Apple, you have the order wrong. First you build a strong following among artistic folks by consistently bringing pretty technology to market. Then you talk like an effete douchebag. If you get the order backwards it sounds pretentious.

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  8. Nokia: Too Late! by kelemvor4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nokia, It's too late to worry about defiling the device! You've already loaded Windows Phone onto it and ruined an otherwise acceptable cell phone.

  9. Re:New meaning for "defile" by marcosdumay · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...who uses their phone as an mp3 player? I have an mp3 player for that.

    In fact. I also carry a voice recorder, a notepad (and a pen), a radio receiver, a pager (in case somebody decides to send me some text), a camera, a phone-number list, a calendar, and a video recorder. Why would I not want to? Each one does its work quite well.

    The only problem is that I've run out of supply for my instantaneous camera, and had to stop using it.

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  10. Re:New meaning for "defile" by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Funny

    But, Batman, most people don't have a utility belt to put all of this stuff in.

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