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I actually try to find reasons not to bring the laptop. The more basics I can do from my phone the better. Swapping cards from camera to phone to mp3 player allows great versatility. Class 6 mSDHC's are fast enough for casual picture taking so one of those with an adapter in a real camera works really well to then pop in the Centro and upload to online galleries, facebook and such. No laptop needed. With the nicer graphical interface, doing that on the Pre would be sweet.
 Originally Posted by Vyruz Reaper
lol, but usually when you travel, you bring a laptop with you, no?
In the absence of a card slot I think they screwed up in making the memory just a solid 8 gigs because if you do run into a hard reset situation, you lose everything or I imagine you do. The 8 gigs should've been separate and left strictly for storage with another gig or two strictly for the OS and programs with the ability to backup to the storage side. Yes, expandability would still be an issue, but it would've alleviated people's stability and backup fears in the absence of connectivity.
I know I've also mentioned (as have others) about USB host support. With flash drives being made smaller and smaller, having one on a keychain in the car or somewhere always on you is an easy thing to do. You'd have it for backup and exapandable memory. You'd also have the ability to connect your still or video camera, mp3 player and such to swap content. That capability would easily trump the competition.
I also love how people who are happy with the status quo of the Pre like to dictate what people should and shouldn't use their phone for. Like it's blasphemy for us to want something else, something more, something we already have on a $99 aged smartphone, something that already exists on much of the current competition.
People also talk about the masses not needing expandable storage and the many who have bought iphones. I think people forget how many dumbphones there are out there that have microSD slots. Verizon (since you can search by that feature) has over 20 phones with expandable storage. That doesn't include smartphones. So the rationale of the masses, middle america, the average janes and joes don't want expandable storage in their phone just doesn't seem to make sense.
 Originally Posted by Vyruz Reaper
lol, but usually when you travel, you bring a laptop with you, no?
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