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 Originally Posted by crogs571
It's amazing the minute someone says they need more than 8 gigs for their media, people assume we want to have our entire collections on the Pre when it's clearly not the case.
One thing Palm showcased was its multimedia capabilities. When I saw that, I wasn't thinking Zune 80gb replacement. I was thinking replacement for my Fuze and D2 for most functions outside of running or paddling. I also thought for work I could keep more technique videos and pdf's. I figured I'd do more Office document based stuff. Why? because the screen is a lot nicer as is the GUI. And I was assuming they'd have a card slot on it to give me enough room to do all that (obviously before it was shown it won't have one). Since I'm hardly home and don't always want to break out the laptop, it's all a matter of convenience. Also with the ability to use it as a mass storage drive, I can keep files on there I'd need during the day and just plug it in to a PC where I'm at to get access to those files. More convenient than a flash drive because I wouldn't necessarily use the flash drive every day and could forget to bring it, forget to update it and so on.
And you can. 1.5 GB is the size of a Hollywood blockbuster sized for the iPhone (same screen resolution). That's 100 minutes or so right there. So even if you have a movie, and let's say another 500 MB for "technique videos", and another 1GB for PDFs, Office documents, and miscellaneous stuff...you'd still have 5GB free for music. With that 5GB, even if ALL of your music was 320 bitrate MP3s (and I doubt that it is, but let's be generous...), you could fit 2000 or more songs on the Pre.
Now, let's say you only felt like hearing 10 percent of the songs you put on a given day. That's 200 songs, and equivalent to roughly 14 hours or so. Even if you didn't take a single phone call or email or message during that 14 hours, the battery would die from that much straight media playing alone unless you charged it. Odds are at some point you would charge it near a computer or be back home for the night, at which point you could swap out files and playlists and do it again as you please. So even if you are a total spaz who chooses poorly from your own collection, you are still covered.
Back to the media thing. There are many people that use their treo for media but on a really small scale. Why? The screen stinks. The programs are mediocre. You need an adapter to use regular headphones. There's just a lot of compromises that are greatly lessened on the Pre which would lead to greater use and a greater need for more memory. For under $15 you can get 8gb of storage on most phones that have a card slot. In time 16gb will be had for under $30. Many people charge their phones in their car or at the office. Quite a few will carry a spare battery. Those that do things they know will drain the battery quicker will do things to combat that. Keeping a spare battery around or tossing it on the charger when it's convenient requires very little effort to make sure you have enough juice to use the phone like you want to.
Oh, so now we're carrying cards and batteries and chargers...hey look! It's no longer an "all-in-one" device.
That's the point. You have to make a sacrifice somewhere. There's no phone on the market that can solve all of these problems, and present a truly all-in-one device that needs nothing else. Either you have to add memory, carry chargers, give up a keyboard, settle for a crappy OS....there's always a compromise.
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