Sad to see no SD card slot. I know that's not Google's thing, but Asus and Samsung have defied them in the past to include them in Nexus models and I was hoping HTC would follow suit.
That said, I hope this sells well. HTC badly needs some success.
That said, I hope this sells well. HTC badly needs some success.
With 64GB inbuilt, I don't really see that as a problem, but for my 16GB N5 and N7, it's annoying at times. Also, file transfer on Linux is... improvable. I use adb to push my music onto the phone. :P
Heck, even USB sticks can be removed whilst they are in the middle of writing (and I've seen people do it), and the OS will typically warn you. We haven't seen the removal of USB ports from machines with the same defence (although some PC manufacturers like to put clusters of USB ports all together so you can't actually plug in two USB sticks next to each other...)
>dying breed
Rubbish, quite the opposite: every (other) flagship android phone has one this year: S5, One M8, LG G3, xperia Z3. Every windows tablet has one. Compare this to the last round when it was pretty much just the S4.
Until we all have affordable wireless signaling at 300+MB/s without stupid data limits, then local storage matters.