[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[BCS]

Hello Nick,

> "BCS" <none at anon.com> wrote in message
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> 
>> Hello Nick,
>> 
>>> "BCS" <none at anon.com> wrote in message
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>>>> 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!
>> 
> Like I said, there's two kinds of "phones": "phone" phones, and PDA
> "phones". For the former, I *still* agree with you. For the latter: If
> I were going to blow the money on a "smartphone" (as they're calling
> them now) or on some sort of iPad-like device (which is the other
> thing I've been talking about), I would expect it to replace a
> dedicated camera and a dedicated portable music player. And they can
> easily do so just by slapping a HDD in there. (BTW, by current music
> player, which also does video - a feature I rather like is 40GB and I
> find it uncomfortably tight. Plus, with that tightness, I can't really
> use it as an external HDD, which I used to do, and found very
> helpful.) I'm not interested in toting around twenty different
> gadgets. There can be only one!
> 

Stuff a person has to store expands to fit the space they have to store it 
in. It's some kind of immutable law of nature that transcends computers and 
closet space. If you had 4.5TB of storage space, then you'd just want to 
store 5TB. The solution isn't more storage space as that just stalls the 
problem for about 10min/Mb.


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