Charging.
ANd you can still use USB or those little metal pads on a docking station.
You didn't know it's your responsibility to read every single technology blog on the web before posting? Please hand in your geek card at the door.
Anyhow, I'm happy to see the trend of sensibly sized android phones continue. However, did Sony really need to use a proprietary wireless changing method?
The Z1 is made by Samsung?
then don't buy it... nexus 5 is google's "phone" to showcase the android experience, moto X has google's finger in the jar as wellI've looked at Nexus 5 and Moto X...but they both leave out expandable SD, which is totally annoying and ridiculous! I always roll my eyes saying WTF? So this new Z1 Compact is a dream come true! Unbelievable specs, pretty darn good camera, expandable microSD, and the topping is waterproof. Simply unbelievable. Of course it will cost $$$, but I'm willing to pay extra for these features that the idiots at Google/Motorola decided for me, that i don't need these features! Well, screw them for trying to manipulate how people use their devices!
think google/android has new changes to the external storage API which helps solve some of the shortcomings (one of the problems is user trying to open/save a file, and don't know whether the file is in /internal/sdcard or /external/sdcard, so they have to hunt, bad experience)I find it a bit amusing that other vendors like HTC and Sony are moving back to offering micro-sd storage after micro-sd was widely panned as obsolete.
Color me surprised that with a little thoughtfulness, you can add it with no design downside and likely minimal cost.
If your app reads from external storage...
Your app can not read shared files on the external storage when running on Android 4.4, unless your app has the READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission. That is, files within the directory returned by getExternalStoragePublicDirectory() are no longer accessible without the permission. However, if you need to access only your app-specific directories, provided by getExternalFilesDir(), then you do not need the READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission.
Charging.
ANd you can still use USB or those little metal pads on a docking station.
Hell no. It's too good looking to be touched by Samsung. Only SONY can make such a device. The Samsung choir in ATMD&G sing the praises of mSD and batteries to the high heavens, proclaiming their allegiance to those two features and vowing never to buy a device that does not have them. Sad.
... space-consuming apps like video camcorder can default to external, and the popup window to save can explicitly say "internal" or "external" instead of giving you one dialog at /root/
Sure, but I was hoping we'd avoid having to buy a new wireless charger for each new phone.
Why is finding sdcards useful in a phone something particular to Samsung fans given that this thread is about a Sony phone that happens to have one?
Your obsession with Samsung is peculiar, particularly when you have to interject it into a thread that has nothing to do with Samsung and is about your own favourite manufacturer.
Many arguments have broken out here where people dismiss every phone out there that did not have an mSD slot or removable battery. Who was the only manufacturer that had those two? Samsung. IIRC, you were in the middle of those brawls so you pretending that you don't understand the backstory to my original post in this thread disingenuous.
FWIW, SONY always had mSD. Is it necessary? Doubtful. Right now I have a phone that has a removable battery and mSD slot but I don't take advantage of it. Why? Because it simply isn't needed even though I probably talk on my phone during work more than anyone else here in this forum. Usually, it's down to 3% at the end of a hell of a day (without charging)...
It's perfect and I will be purchasing.
might be a while
Sony has been neglecting the US market with regards to the phones
T-mobile is it's exclusive partner. but Z1 was released internationally in September 13, came to US in the online Sony store in Oct 13, and finally a carrier version (Z1s) this year
the Z came out in march, came to US around may, got onto T-mobile as an official carrier release in June
maybe the time-to-market for Z1 compact will be quicker
Wha...?Many arguments have broken out here where people dismiss every phone out there that did not have an mSD slot or removable battery. Who was the only manufacturer that had those two? Samsung.
Wha...?
This has zilch to do with the Z1; it doesn't have "those two" and no one but you even brought it up in some strange fit of Samsung rage.
Why are you even talking about this in this thread?
Because you and Zaap inserted the endless debate about mSD in this thread, completely ignoring the fact that SONY has had it in their phones since forever. Nothing has change and people that like the phone will buy it irrespective of the mSD feature.
Funnily enough the thread isn't about me or Zaap, or your obsession with other members or even if you are apparently suffering from PMT.
Its about the Z1, which does appear to have an SDcard slot.
There never should have been a debate on it in the first place.
I hope it's price competitive with the Moto X... :hmm:Its about as close to perfect as I need. Smaller screen and all the power.
Plus water resistance.
Of course it does, Mr. "Micro SD? Win".
The only reason for pause, I'd say, is battery life. We don't know how long the Z1 compact lasts in the real world. It may do well given that it's a bit thicker and has a smaller screen, but there's no guarantees.