[HTC Amaze 4G] ericdjobs:
Heh, definitely switching over to the Nexus 4.

At first I was a little bit weary.. I really do like my Amaze.

But a quad-core S4 (!!!!) with 2gb ram and that beautiful screen... for only $300/$350? I don't need expandable storage... I don't get why everyone needs it.. we have T-Mobile and with that comes unlimited data at 42mbps (well, consistently 30+ for me). I store absolutely everything that's storage intensive on my Dropbox that's sitting pretty at 28 gigs (free, thank you $100 Google Adwords voucher! Ran a campaign for 8 hours and maxed referrals, lol) and I also have a box.com account with a lifetime 50gigs (Thank you XDA for the build.prop tweak to get the free lifetime 50 gigs), then a VPS with 100 gigs of storage that has networked folders constantly connected to all devices... combined with Google music.. I probably don't need any more than 8gb, to be honest. I have a 32gb Nexus 7 that's constantly tethered to the Amaze via bluetooth automatically (using tasker and a pair of apps) and an Autoremote trigger to enable/disable WiFi tethering.. then Autoremote/Tasker setup where the Nexus will ask the Amaze for battery % every 5 minutes, Amaze will send the battery % (this is all done using autoremote, check it out), then the Nexus 7 displays the phone battery % in the notification bar... so I literally never even need to take my phone out of my bag/holster anymore most of the time. The only storage intensive thing that I can't store on the cloud are games, and since my Nexus 7 is always with me.. all games go on there anyways. When I'm at home I have shells scripts that start samba servers and also mount networked folders on my laptop, desktop, amaze, and nexus 7 that interconnect all 3.. so each device and send/receive files from any other device using a simple folder.. so I can offload storage needs that way, as well. If things got really rough I'm sure the Nexus 7 supports USB-OTG just like other Nexus devices... I have a 64GB flash drive so there's that.

Seriously, with easily available cloud storage, USB-OTG, etc.. why do you need so much storage.. or why would non-removable storage be a deal breaker? I could understand if data was not unlimited or something, or you had poor coverage and thus low speeds. Music? Google Music takes care of that. Movies? My VPS/Astrisk server (for bridging google voice free calls to a SIP account using an Obi device) has 100 gigs and it's where I store all my movies/tv shows that I would stream, and they can be rotated remotely (Files deleted and new movie/tv show sets uploaded from desktop with 2TB of storage).. then I have netflix sub as well.. so that's taken care of. Game data? As I said earlier all games are played on Nexus 7 anyways.. What else is there that's high-storage? I just can't think of any need for high storage on a phone anymore, save for a very FEW select situations which would be very occasional and could be planned for (using USB-OTG microSD card readers or flash drives), and that's only if there's no HSPA+ available. The most storage intensive thing I have on my Amaze are nandroid backups. ROMs can be stored on the cloud. Large media downloads (like downloading a movie or something on the go) can be remotely initiated via SSH on my VPS which can download at like 150mbps.. then I can simply stream it. I have 25 gigs of data usage for October, and that's just mobile data not even counting Wifi. (Nexus/Amaze combined pretty much) I use an encrypted tunnel for all my data to avoid getting caught tethering, because I'm literally tethering 24/7 on the nationwide 4g plan, heh. This is why OpenVPN server hosted on my vps is good ;) I wouldn't really recommend tethering 25 gigs of data without it!

Embrace the cloud! We have unlimited data, people! This is something that nobody on other carriers can really do (Sprint's speeds are ridiculously slow, this kind of usage wouldn't be possible).. We are in a unique position where storage doesn't matter nearly as much as with other carriers where on-board storage is a way to mitigate data caps.

To each their own! Not trying to rant or anything, but just trying to give an alternative point of view!

edit- you know the funny thing? when I read this again, I realized that if everyone really did "embrace the cloud" and do what I've done, data speeds would probably slow to a crawl and stuff like that.... so yeah, you know what... EXPANDABLE STORAGE ALL THE WAY

but I'm still getting an N4 :P