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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Re. "Ext3" = "Even worse" because I find it extremely inefficient and even unprofessional, to claim those units being multimedia devices as well and not even being able to handle the easiest of tasks.
I wouldn't mind, if the system automatically would use an adequate file system. But doing it manually? That's why iOS (unfortunately) still shines...
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Ah but iOS uses a different file sytem [HFS]. Ext3 is more efficient then FAT32 I thought? Most flash media uses the FAT file system. So if you are not buying Apple flash cards, you need to reformat for that system as well. Difference is just in the default. FAT32 is used by default as windows can't read/write to ext3 etc. 4gb of h.264 media formated for a 7" screen is a lot when you consider a single later dvd can easily hold a full movie with mpeg2.
Remember Android is still meant for use on phones, to date no official version supports tablets.
Given the sizes of the flash cards still being less then 32GB, their probably has not been much demand yet for people to put single files that use that much of the total capicity on them yet. It would not take them much time at all to give the option to format the drives that way. Almost all of them come preformat for fat32 though... did you try unformating a card and plugging it in? What does it give you? It is not their fault as to what the memory cards come preformated in is it?