Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

Rant

Samsung S6 lack of memory card and romovable battery

Mar 5, 2015 2:25AM PST

One of the major reasons I been using Samsung cell phones since the Galaxy S2 is because of the hardware and then the android os. Unfortunately I don't understand why did they took out the memory card feature for the New Samsung S6, and especially the removable battery feature too. But most importantly the memory card feature. I've had been using every new Samsung Galaxy S Series and up to S5 and also the Note Series to the most recent Samsung Note 4. But if this is the new path that Samsung is planning to go, unfortunately, I am not sure I am going to be your loyal fan anymore. At least for the Galaxy S6, but I am still hopeful about the next Note 5. I could somewhat understand the design challenge for the removable battery, but when you also add the missing memory slot, I am pretty disappointed! I don't like the fact that I will need to buy a new phone just because I don't have enough memory or in my case, I don't trust putting important pictures or videos in my phone storage. I work with cellular phone everyday, and I see so much customers lose their pics and vids all the time when the phone software or hardware crashes!

Discussion is locked

- Collapse -
For years I've lost nothing.
Mar 5, 2015 2:39AM PST

I just sync to my dropbox which happens automatically when I take a picture.

Why not consider other models next?
Bob

- Collapse -
Don't trust cloud services in general
Mar 5, 2015 6:31AM PST

Remember the apple incident with the hacked photos? Or a couple years back, Tmobile lost all backup contacts for their customers? From a data security point of view, it is best to have important data store on more than 1 physical location, preferably your own storage medias. Like I mentioned earlier, I work with people's phones all the time, most people do not think even as far as backing anything up on Dropbox either. I use to be a Nokia and Sony fan before the Samsung Galaxy and Note series came out, and I really liked the Samsung brand at the moment. Just hope that I don't have to be forced to change brands, because of the lack of additional storage and removable battery change. I am still currently hopeful they will at least still have the memory card feature on the next Note 5. But I will most likely skip 1 generation of the Samsung Galaxy series for the first time in 3 years. It is such a bummer since the Samsung Galaxy S6 is such a nice phone, hardware and design wise!!!

- Collapse -
If you want security.
Mar 5, 2015 7:00AM PST

You would not use any phone. Android's CIQ issue is still there from what we can tell.
Bob