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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. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN oops, it's the story! by FriendlyStatistician · · Score: 5, Informative

    You might try reading the summary before you post next time. The phone that includes a micro-SD slot is not the phone that does not include an SD slot.

    TL;DR: RTFS.

  2. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN oops, it's the story! by pushing-robot · · Score: 4, Informative

    The phone with a MicroSD slot is the Nokia 820. The phone without a SD slot, Micro- or otherwise, is the 920. It's been a while since any phones had full-size SD card slots.

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  3. Nokia Lumia is a disaster stock price down 16.6% by walterbyrd · · Score: 4, Informative

    As I understand it.

  4. Re:Call the lawyers by erp_consultant · · Score: 5, Informative

    I used to have an iPhone but I got sick of having to use iTunes to get anything on or off the phone. So I switched to an Android (Samsung Galaxy S2) which has a MicroSD in the back. MicroSD's are cheap and hold a lot of data. Now I just put it in USB mode and I can copy away to my heart's content. I won't buy a phone that doesn't have expandable storage. iPhone had better put one in (fat chance) or I'll be sticking with Android.

  5. Re:Call the lawyers by marcosdumay · · Score: 3, Informative

    Now I just put it in USB mode and I can copy away to my heart's content.

    Yeah, that's great. But it is not a reason for wanting expandable memory. Android phones with only internal memory have a USB mode too.

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  6. Re:Good idea Nokia by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 3, Informative

    The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, Captain.

    Admiral.

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  7. Re:Call the lawyers by Belial6 · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you took 20 phones, 10 with SD slots and 10 without, I highly doubt that you could pick the ones that had SD slots based on thickness.

  8. Re:Call the lawyers by Luckyo · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm around 75kg at 180cm, I actually still have jeans I got as a gift from US (fun trivia: apparently european size is one smaller then US one, so I got them one size too big), and they still have pockets that won't properly fit a 4" phone. Luckily the "smokes" pocket on the side is perfect for my old 3.2" one.

    The jeans feel like a damn tent when I try to wear them. Just what do you classify as "skinny"?! Something not morbidly obese?