Palm Pre: microSD slot sacrificed for slick design
Palm’s decision to leave out the microSD slot from the Palm Pre was purely a design decision as per the Palm Product Manager Matt Crowley. He said this when questioned about the lack of microsSD slot during the week-long Q&A session being held about the Pre on Facebook. Instead of appearing within the Palm blog itself, Palm has taken the rather unusual approach of using a Facebook chat to give their users a chance to interact with, moderated by Palm Director of Online Communications and PR Services Jon Zilber.
On the omission of the microSD slot loss which according to me could be a deal-breaker, Matt Crowley states:
‘Design’ was the highest goal on the Palm Pre project. The phone has to look and function great in the hand and up against the face on a call. The decision to include or not include expandable storage is an easy one when design is the highest priority. The physical size of the device would have been compromised if we added another physical component to Pre. Just a millimeter can seriously impact the curvature of the design in a way that minimizes the design intent. We wanted to maintain a slick curved slider design without building out too much thickness.
When you look at the two parts of the product and see how thin they really are, you may be amazed that we were able to fit everything in. And yes, all the stuff does fit.The other advantage of embedded memory is that you have a large amount of storage out of the box for media and files. Including 8GBs of storage on the phone is a large amount of storage for many people, but not all. Yes, not all. We know that not everyone will be happy, but that is one of many decisions that needs to be made and the product goals
The Palm Pre Q&A session is on Facebook for a week from January 21st-28th. So feel free to drop in any questions you have about Pre.
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