[General Topics] Venekor:
Why do phones lack these two features these days? I'm not going to buy a phone without them again because it just makes life with the phone hell. Every time you upgrade you end up having to transfer your whole music collection and what ever else over and it gets so annoying. With a Micro SD card all you do is take it out and put it in your new phone, it's very easy and it stops you from clogging up your phone. I have one card full up and going to buy a 64GB version to have more space. Like having a phone without extra storage just means you cannot record video or you have to pick and choose what you have on there. People can say cloud storage all they want, it's not as good as having it local, especially with data plans for a lot of people and the fact that signal isn't great everywhere, especially here in the UK at least where it's spotty at best in the countryside.

Then whenever I'm away, at a festival or on a long flight, you constantly have to worry about battery life. Most people I know who have iPhones or whatever else doesn't have a removable battery, they're constantly worried about battery life and barely using their phone. I know they have them booths and stuff now for charging, however that is just annoying and not convenient at all. When I had my GS2, I was at Reading for a weekend and all I did was bring a couple batteries with me, they take up no space, I didn't bother to bring a charge or USB cable or anything, I could easily just switch them out when the battery was going. It's so nice to be able to do that!

Now though there is this weird thing happening where people want Uni bodied phones that are made out of glass and metal and lack these features. I just find it so odd, then the first thing people do is wrap their phone in a bulky ugly case. Like iPhone users or even HTC now always go on about how good their phone looks and yet the only time they see them is the day of purchase and the day they sell. They've constantly got it wrapped up because they don't want to scratch the metal... like glass and metal they use on phones is no more expensive than the plastic. You know the good thing is plastic is more durable, you can drop it and it'll not dent, become sharp or shatter like glass. The other thing is plastic doesn't get cold in cold weather conditions like glass and metal do. I used to have an iPhone 4 and holding that thing in winter was hell, I had to get a cover just so it wouldn't make my hand cold.

The great thing about having a removable back cover, especially how the GS3 is designed, is you can place it down, scratch it all you want and then buy a new one for a tenner off ebay. I really like how Samsung designed that back case so it's the only thing that touches a surface and the only thing that has a chance of scratched when it is set down.

I want plastic, I want a removable battery and a Micro SD. You know the only reason they want to design these features out is cause it saves money, they can charge for cloud storage and they blame a removable battery and Micro SD for helping piracy along. It's all about stopping your choice and the irony of it is, taking these features out probably costs less, is less premium and these "premium" metal and glass materials just means more money for this companies in repairs, especially with a non removable battery.