Matías Duarte, Google's VP of design, is also quoted as saying that 'in reality it's just confusing for users.' It's clear from the piece that Xiaomi's VP Hugo Barra thinks that having micro SD cards slots in smartphones is a bad idea.īarra: 'For high performance devices, we are fundamentally against an SD card slot.'īarra: 'You think you're buying like a Kingston or a SanDisk but you're actually not, and they're extremely poor quality, they're slow, they sometimes just stop working, and it gives people huge number of issues, apps crashing all the time, users losing data, a lot of basically complaints and customer frustration.' There's a piece over on tech news site Engadget on the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi and how it was decided that the flagship handsets shouldn't make use of micro SD cards.
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