[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[retard]

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:45:55 +0000, BCS wrote:

> Hello Nick,
> 
>> "BCS" <none at anon.com> wrote in message
>> news:a6268ff1b9958cd1bfa012970d8 at news.digitalmars.com...
>> 
>>> Hello Nick,
>>> 
>>>> Ugh, don't even get me started on MicroSD. Ordinary SD is already too
>>>> small if you ask me, although I still put up with it anyway. Now
>>>> MicroSD, well I can't say anything about it without raising my blood
>>>> pressure...
>>>> 
>>> My point was that space (volume) is not what limits how much space
>>> (GB) a phone has.
>>> 
>> And my link dispelled that myth. Try putting 200GB+ into a MicroSD form
>> factor at the cost of a 2.5" HDD. Yea, eventually that'll happen, but
>> by then I could get a HDD many times bigger than that for the same
>> price.
>> 
>> 
> I wouldn't. I'd put it in a package about 4-5 times as big and mount it
> on the PC board. Besides, what the heck do you need more than about 32GB
> for on a phone? If you need to shoot that much video, get a real camera!

I have 32 GB micro-sdhc cards (class 2 or 4) on my phone and 64 GB 
compactflash (don't know the class, but approximately 90 MB/s) on my 
camera (Canon 7D). Both could have more space. The camera doesn't compress 
video very well despite quite high price so the maximum video length is 
only few minutes.

> 
>>>> Besides:
>>>> http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.phtml?N=4294966955+
>>>> 42 94953566&sht=Any&prt=NewProduct&
>>>> 
>>> If I wanted more sortage than I can put on flash cards, I'd breing a
>>> lap-top. OTOH: this is the class of phone I use:
>>> http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services
>>> /Mobile-Phones/Motorola-Stature-i9-US-EN
>>> 
>> You're not everyone. Some people would rather have HDD-level storage
>> capacity.
>> 
>> 
> 1) I don't want an HDD in my phone. Moving parts? Ouch! 2) That will
> always be cheaper as an external HDD. Some people will want to use their
> phone as a weapon, should that also be a design criteria?

I'd like to have 128..512 GB of storage in the phone. Why? My media 
library (hundreds of CDs & DVDs transcoded -> mp3/ogg or xvid). I think 
this is even possible with two 64 GB sdxc cards. Podcasts. TV series. 
Games. Photos converted to JPG @ 1080p resolution for powerpoint & other 
purposes.

> 
>>> In this day and age, you would be hard pressed to suggest a smart
>>> phone/PDA needs more than a 1 maybe 2 USB ports. You might, just
>>> maybe, talk me into believing that an HDMI port could be handy. But
>>> that would really push it.
>>> 
>> Ugh, I hate HDMI, but that's a whole other discussion ;)
>> 
>> 
> I just picked the smallest video connector I could think of.

The mini-HDMI is pretty decent. There are no better alternatives that I 
know of at the moment. 1080p video + multichannel audio, quite small.

My phone & cam both also have micro-usb 2.0 connectors. Pretty good. 
Waiting for usb 3.0.