I agree with the OP. I get that there are work arounds but that is an inconvenience to many people to manually move apps around. Also, it doesn't move the entire app, only small portions of it. Android must focus on streamlining the experience but maintaining flexibility through subsystems in the same way they hid the developer options. Techies are okay with workarounds because enables them to configure things to their needs.
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When will android phones come in 128g
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Ah, yeah well it is a huge feat to squeeze that much storage into an SD card format, I guess they are still working on getting it into a Micro SD format.
I believe it is implemented by the specific OEM in their skin. Stock android does not support it natively.
Probably because Nexus devices have no SD slot. Does any Google Edition phones with SD card have the option?
My ge s4 does not have the option to move apps to the sd card. I use it for media strictly. There are root apps to make it work with symlinking or something but I haven't bothered
Google definitely has a vendetta against sd cards.
Yes so do I but you still have a 16gb phone.
I bet most android users dont even know of the limitations and think an sd card is similar to internal memory.
Yes an sd card will easen the burden of low memory but 32gb is still low when apps are 2gb+ or when a certain app can only store/read data internally and your files go over 20gb collectively..
When I had the note 3 I never came close to filling up the 32 GB of space. When I had the iPhone 5S 64GB I had virtually filed it. Why? Because of music and videos. I didn't even have up to 10 GB of apps. On my ipod touch 5th generation which I don't store music or videos on I've only used 6GB. So on my android devices I use my SD cards for music, videos and photos. Whatever internal memory I have is perfectly fine for apps. I don't have apps that are 2GB. I don't play real racing or whatever kind of game would take up that much space. Also most apps are nowhere near 2GB in size even on ios.
Personally I think that 16gb/32gb is enough. I used to fill an sd card but since I've moved networks and can get a decent 3g signal almost everywhere, I don't really have a need for lots of storage space on my phone. I stream music from deezer, upload all my photos to flickr, and videos to youtube. Vive The Cloud!
Agree with this. I think contracts have vastly inflated phone prices.
In other sectors - tvs, computers, cameras etc, pricing seems to be more reasonable.
With phones manufacturers think that they can charge what they like because carriers can hide the real cost by dividing it into 24 easy monthly payments!
God I wish SanDisk would hurry up and release a 1TB SDXC
Oh and on topic to OP, I would love Samsung to come out with 128GB internal storage... Hopefully the Note 5 comes out with that to combat the iPhone 6's 128GB ;x
Imagine 128GB Internal Storage + 256 GB Microsd (hopefully this gets made by next September =p)
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That's why Apple engineers took the easy way out and ignored the whole idea. Can't blame them. But...
In real life, on Android devices, most people use the SD slot once to _add_ more storage, and then never take it out again until they're ready to sell the phone (or upgrade to another).
So the removal problem never occurs.
I have hundreds of apps on my Note 3 and have plenty of room left. It's easy to store large databases of maps and their related data on the microSD. Again, no issues.
That's not android's fault, that's per developer. Android has included the option to move to Apps to SD, the onus is no longer in them. We can't blame android for lazy 3rd party developers who fail to make use of this.
you can always manually move large app files to the SD card with symlinking with root access, even if the dev of the particular app does not support app2sd. It is a relatively intensive process and must be done on a per app basis, but it is possible.
one reason I will probably stick with android, basically anything is possible with some elbow grease
I'm sure there are some xposed modules that simplify the process too
one reason I will probably stick with android, basically anything is possible with some elbow grease
I'm sure there are some xposed modules that simplify the process too
This a problem Samsung has to address at some point. They have to slim down TW and optimize it like say HTC does with Sense.
Actually, as others have posted it is Google's fault, because the feature is not native to the Android OS. Therefore it is not consistent across Android devices, even when those devices are running the same version of Android.
No it's really the manufacturer's fault. Android is open source, so it's up to manufacturer's to cover themselves when they include hardware features that no Google/Nexus device has. Which is why nearly most manufacturer's recently provided updates for most models that includes micro SD slots, so apps can now be moved. You can't expect Google to cater to what other manufacturers do with their devices.