Nor is the market for removable storage likely to turn around any time soon.
And since it's a Sony product, it also uses that company's Memory Stick for removable storage.
There are more removable storage technologies for digital music players than one can easily keep track of.
The device has slots for CompactFlash or SmartMedia removable storage inserts, which are used on several digital cameras.
The unit has 32 megabytes of memory and, as we suspected, uses the SD memory card for removable storage.
Removable storage is a necessity, not a choice on the One V, which arrives with under 1GB of useable space.
Slackware is now much more savvy about removable storage, accelerated 3D video, SATA and other features that have sometimes demanded command line trickery.
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The company has spent most of the past year trying to break away from its core product lines, which are removable storage products for personal computers.
It offered the first Palm OS devices with removable storage, the first devices that could play back audio and video, and the first high-resolution color devices.
But since then nearly every consumer electronics manufacturer from Bangkok to Berlin has released an MP3 player, and many of them use their own removable storage technology.
The latter is an unusual choice, but other 11-inchers like the Zenbook Prime UX21A forgo a memory card slot altogether, so it's at least nice to have removable storage to supplement the non-expandable 128GB SSD.
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Roy, Utah-based Iomega (nyse: IOM - news - people) has lost a lot of sheen since it first began its ascent to the removable storage throne five years ago with Zip and Jaz storage products.
Though it won the battle for dominance in the removable storage market with few financial rewards to show for it, it's unclear if Iomega as a late entrant in what is sure to be another tough fight, can do it again.
But the format has a lot of momentum behind it: There are already 50 products on the market that support the SD card format--from digital cameras to music players to PC drives--and there are 275 member companies in the Secure Digital Association who are actively promoting it as the next standard for removable storage.
Even though Iomega won the battle of removable storage--it bought out the assets of its main rival, the bankrupt SyQuest , in late 1998--and its Zip drive is a de facto standard for PCs, Porter says the company made a critical error by selling the drives at a low margin, thinking profits would come from the sale of the disks.
That said, the design is also more functional, as the device offers an accessible 1, 700mAh battery and removable microSD storage.
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There's both a removable battery and storage expansion through microSD (up to a possible 64GB) with 8GB of built-in storage there to begin with.
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That meant removable batteries, expandable storage, and larger screens.
While the smartphone maker argues that the phone does offer an expansion option in the form of a microSD card slot (up to 64GB, no less), some apps still seem to prefer to reside on built-in storage over anything removable -- Amazon's Cloud Player comes to mind.
It is packaged with a 2 gigabyte removable memory card and 4 gigabytes of internal storage, of which just 1.8 gigabytes is available to the user.
It might be missing the PureView camera, but it has a perfectly reasonable Carl Zeiss lensed standard camera, removable battery, support for MicroSD cards for extra storage, and runs everything the Lumia 920 does.
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The 9.3mm-thick phone comes with a 4.5-inch, 720p gapless IPS display, a 1.2GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589 SoC, a removable 1, 800mAh battery, 8GB of built-in storage and microSD expansion.
Underneath the removable cover, there's a 2, 000mAh battery and a slot for microSD storage expansion, though the official listing doesn't tell us how much storage is built into the phone.
And in the age of cheap removable memory, it's a shame there's no way to expand the unit's very limited storage capacity.
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