Comments on: Feature: Five features your next phone should have http://www.teic.ie/2009/11/five-things-your-next-phone-should-have/ Irish for tech. Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:46:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Adam http://www.teic.ie/2009/11/five-things-your-next-phone-should-have/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Adam Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:10:54 +0000 http://www.teic.ie/?p=474#comment-102 Absolutely - I can't think it's done for any commercial reason (like proprietary inputs are), it's just something the designers fail to think of when making the phone. In a world where everything is becoming reliant on SD (or its miniature variants) for storage this absolutely has to change and in fairness the flash-card-behind-the-battery situation is becoming increasingly rare in the handsets I trial. Absolutely – I can’t think it’s done for any commercial reason (like proprietary inputs are), it’s just something the designers fail to think of when making the phone.

In a world where everything is becoming reliant on SD (or its miniature variants) for storage this absolutely has to change and in fairness the flash-card-behind-the-battery situation is becoming increasingly rare in the handsets I trial.

]]> By: Eoin O'Mahony http://www.teic.ie/2009/11/five-things-your-next-phone-should-have/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Eoin O'Mahony Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:20:22 +0000 http://www.teic.ie/?p=474#comment-101 "There’s no excuse for not allowing the flash memory to be hot-swappable" Agreed. It is kind of a blind spot for the manufacturers I think. They want you to use the phone, but only the phone as a single-user device. “There’s no excuse for not allowing the flash memory to be hot-swappable” Agreed. It is kind of a blind spot for the manufacturers I think. They want you to use the phone, but only the phone as a single-user device.

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