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Originally Posted by afv011
The move to SD card was a workaround to breath some extra life into phones with limited internal storage, it was never a "this is the way things will be done in the future" thing. Phones now have multiple gigabytes of internal storage, and for most folks that should be plenty, at least if you store apps internally and your humongous video files on the SD card. Only those users with a bunch of high def games might feel the pain of limited onboard storage.
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I was a Samsung girl for a long time -- my first two flip phones were Samsung and I held onto the second one for about 8 or 9 years before I decided to trade it in for a Samsung-branded smartphone. It took me three "duds" before I finally gave up on Samsung and switched to Apple.
Samsung should have put the internal memory into the phones sooner -- that was one of the reasons I defected. I exclusively used Samsung branded phones for over 15 years until I finally decided that my faith was unfounded. My "smartphone" experience was unstable internet connectivity (Instinct, 2 years), poor reliablity and slow response (Moment, 1 year) and low internal memory (Epic 4G, 18 months). There were other issues, but those were the ones that prompted my upgrades. "Pretty" and "feature rich" doesn't do much for me if I'm always waiting on the phone to connect to the internet, perform some action or finish its random reboot.
I heard about huge improvements in Honeycomb/Ice Cream Sandwich, but even though the Galaxy S phone product was less than two years old (my husband bought one on the day it launched), it did not get support for ICS. Because I didn't want to invest in yet another Samsung product if it was going to become obsolete before my contract term ended (again), as soon as my husband's contract was up, we upgraded both phones to 64GB iPhone 5s instead of the S3.
I haven't sworn off Samsung. I am happy that Samsung is doing well and am honestly hoping that they keep it up so that I *can* come back (competition usually benefits the consumer, right?); I just can't afford to continue to buy a new phone every year (especially without the "upgrade the main line after one year" program.)
Now that I have experience with both Android and iOS, I'm happy to use whatever seems most suitable at the time. However, after buying three phones (five if you count my husband's phones) in three years, I'm hoping to keep this current phone at least to the end of its two year contract (and preferably longer.)
I see threads on other forums asking about the value of upgrading from an iPhone 3GS, which is the kind of longevity I'm looking for -- buying a new phone for new *features*, not because I am struggling with memory issues, spontaneous reboots and progressively poorer responses. If Samsung can get to that point (and possibly it has with the S3 -- it's too soon to tell) then I'll happily switch back when the S6 or S7 comes out.
