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If the phone had a decent amount of storage then it's not an issue, but most phones don't have a decent amount of storage. Apple and Google seem to be deliberately giving you poxy amounts of storage to try to get you to pay a monthly fee for their cloud services. The phone networks plug these phones because you will need a plan with more data that they can charge more for.
If I can buy a 64GB micro SD card for under £15, there is no reason that a phone can't come with a decent amount of internal storage. It's a deliberate policy to keep the storage small to get you to buy their cloud services.
Apple do the same thing with their computers as well. The base spec of the supposedly "professional" level MacBook Pro only has a 256GB SSD. That's ridiculous.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Not defending Apples meagre harddrive portions but it's never a good idea to trust a large amount of data to an internal drive especially an SSD. Do what your doing, move the data to at least 2 other locations and start again. I do a lot of data recovery. that's what I'm actually doing now as I type this. If I can get a platter drive to spin up my results are generally good but SSD's when they go .... and trust me they will .... are a nightmare.
The difference is that I use Dropbox as a tool to transfer stuff - I don't use it as my primary storage. Maybe I'm old school but I want control of my own data and I don't want to pay my mobile provider to be able to access it.
I don't want to pay anyone to access my data.
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
I should point out that even the iPhone did all of that well enough.
The Motorola Atrix is a prime example - a good idea, but woefully underpowered. However, when it was docked it'd switch to a desktop version of Ubuntu. Android itself has advanced to the point where it can run as a desktop OS, and the newer quad-core and octa-core CPUs can easily handle the load; I suspect we'll start seeing this soon.
Agree here in a big big way.
Found out the hard way - did an event shoot and a compact flash card failed. I used a free trial of file recovery software and it managed to extract some of the files, but not all.
I had another card on the night which I also used, but it was only due to luck. My next camera absolutely *must* have dual slots.
The other thing is size.phones are still getting thinner (the nexus 6p is like a wafer - actually uncomfortable to hold). Ergonomically, the iPhone 4 and 5 were about perfect, meaning cases didn't need to be huge or overly padded, but was still very comfortable to hold. The iPhone 6 is, in comparison, horrible.
The same is true on the android side of the pond, too. I don't want a skinny phone, nor a screen bigger than 4-5 inches. I want a decent battery and a bit more storage, and a nice, tactile shell.
The iPhone SE isn't bad though, so at least I have an upgrade option if (when) my 4S finally becomes obsolete to the point it can't do something I want it to.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
i compared it to a couple of similarily priced android handsets ie the Sony Xcompact, and Galaxy S7, The S7 won by a mile, with the camera in particular being the best I've seen on a phone, plus the speed, usability, and looks of it, plus the expandable storage. It is bigger obviously but from a purely personal point of view it was an absolute no brainer to go with the s7.