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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
The unit has 32 megabytes of memory and, as we suspected, uses the SD memory card for removable storage.
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.
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