Nexus S has arrived

[Michael Comia]

http://goo.gl/Mv7IX

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[Brad Oldham]

I just learned that it has no SD Card.  What were they thinking?  I was getting all hot and bothered over that phone until I found out about its lack of an SD Card slot.

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[Jeffrey Peacock]

I agree.  I fail to see the wisdom of this design choice.  The iPhone is notorious for not allowing expandability.

No SD card expansion limits what you can use the phone for.  Consider that many people have music collections in the 16-32gb range.  Then there's books on tape, photos, movies, etc.  Really?, I need to have a second device to hold my music collection, or delete songs when I'm taking photos or video?  Push the demand to the cloud you say?  And which carrier is the one that always coverage?  In the air, too?

What a disappointment.  So close... and then: New Coke.  Call me when there really is one phone to rule them all...

/J

[Michael Comia]

Hopefully they will soon release a version that does have one.  I think the positive focus for the time being should be about Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread.

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[Michael Comia]

Jeff,  I was thinking there is a good stragegic reason behind this Google is not talking about right now.  One day MicroSD slots will probably be extinct and we will be wondering why we've complained all along  Why? Google is secretly testing a service called Google Cloud Picker which might be the reason you never will need to ever worry about any SD slot  or running out of storage space. Read about it here ----->http://goo.gl/fOho2

michael

[Jeffrey Peacock]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and state very emphatically that I LIKE MY STUFF ON MY PHONE where it is not subject to carrier coverage, carrier rules, and Google picking over it for clues to my deep psychological problems so they can A) market to me directly; B) deny me access to life saving services; C) sell my information to the US government, or new world order, to prep me for bio-chip implants; or D) track me so Google execs can get a new kidney or liver whenever they want.  Give me an encrypted mechanism for syncing my stuff as a backup but let me keep something private.

/J

[Michael Comia]

I understand this concern.   According to Google they do take privacy seriously and their legal terms are available for  anybody to read.   Even so, many people would take that with a grain of salt as they should such as the news has shown that Google and any company for that matter does not have a perfect track record when it comes to privacy.  

There are a variety of phones out there and I'm sure many of them will have the SD slot for some time.  The great thing is that Android allows the variety of choices and options,  but  ultimately I do think Google, starting with Nexus S is aiming online storage toward the Google and Facebook Generation who have slowly been condition to loss of privacy over the years.  In actuality Google is ultimately aiming online storage for everybody including enterprise business and government.  For many the positive effects out way the negative.   Most of the time when we are online we don't think about this loss.  Many people put their most personal photos on Facebook right now.  Also Google, Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft and phone carriers and your ISP already already have access to many people's minds and psychological profiles via  emails and text messages and search queries.   I'm not here to take a political stance on this.  I'm merely observing what's been happening through the last few years that we have been shifting toward a social model. 

[Jeffrey Peacock]

In that you are probably the world's foremost expert on the amount of
computing power it would take to decipher deep psychological problems,
and I see no indicators of success or even improvement, I must concede
that you are right.

Also, I welcome your taking the lead on this specific project and humbly
request that you report back to us when there is nominal advancement, or
even hope.

/J

On 12/06/2010 06:54 PM, Josh Rehman wrote:
> Don't worry. Google's world-wide data farms are not sufficient in either
> computational power or storage capacity to analyze and store the full extent
> of your psychological problems.

>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Jeffrey Peacock<je...@jeffreypeacock.com>wrote:
>
>
>> I'm going to go out on a limb here and state very emphatically that I LIKE
>> MY STUFF ON MY PHONE where it is not subject to carrier coverage, carrier
>> rules, and Google picking over it for clues to my deep psychological
>> problems so they can A) market to me directly; B) deny me access to life
>> saving services; C) sell my information to the US government, or new world
>> order, to prep me for bio-chip implants; or D) track me so Google execs can
>> get a new kidney or liver whenever they want. Give me an encrypted
>> mechanism for syncing my stuff as a backup but let me keep something
>> private.
>>
>> /J
>>
>>
>> On 12/06/2010 04:57 PM, Michael Comia wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Jeff, I was thinking there is a good stragegic reason behind this Google
>>> is not talking about right now. One day MicroSD slots will probably be
>>> extinct and we will be wondering why we've complained all along Why? Google

>>> is secretly testing a service called *Google Cloud Picker* which might be

>>> the reason you never will need to ever worry about any SD slot or running
>>> out of storage space. Read about it here ----->http://goo.gl/fOho2

>>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Jeffrey Peacock<je...@jeffreypeacock.com<mailto:

>>> je...@jeffreypeacock.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I agree. I fail to see the wisdom of this design choice. The
>>> iPhone is notorious for not allowing expandability.
>>>
>>> No SD card expansion limits what you can use the phone for.
>>> Consider that many people have music collections in the 16-32gb
>>> range. Then there's books on tape, photos, movies, etc. Really?,
>>> I need to have a second device to hold my music collection, or
>>> delete songs when I'm taking photos or video? Push the demand to
>>> the cloud you say? And which carrier is the one that always
>>> coverage? In the air, too?
>>>
>>> What a disappointment. So close... and then: New Coke. Call me
>>> when there really is one phone to rule them all...
>>>
>>> /J
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/06/2010 02:21 PM, Brad Oldham wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I just learned that it has no SD Card. What were they thinking? I
>>>> was getting all hot and bothered over that phone until I found
>>>> out about its lack of an SD Card slot.
>>>>

>>>> *From:* oce...@googlegroups.com<mailto:oce...@googlegroups.com>
>>>> [mailto:oce...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Michael Comia
>>>> *Sent:* Monday, December 06, 2010 2:10 PM
>>>> *To:* OCEJUG
>>>> *Subject:* [OCEJUG] Nexus S has arrived
>>>>
>>>> http://goo.gl/Mv7IX
>>>>
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