One of our tipsters reminds us that the "S" in SD stands for "secure," and though most platforms don't make use of SD's security features, Windows Phone 7 most definitely does.
We're told that on the first boot after a reset, the phone checks the inserted card and formats it - but that's not all that happens. Worst case, you lose data and you need a factory reset as far as we can tell, there's no way to end up with a paperweight. Whoops.Įven so, from the phone's perspective, it's still not the end of the world if a card gets swapped. Apparently, employees raised concerns early on that customers would be removing the cards and causing all sorts of drama in the process, and the official call was that manufacturers should glue the cards into place somewhere along the line, that message was lost, and the Focus happened with a fully user-accessible slot. That's exactly what Microsoft had in mind. Bear in mind that manufacturers occasionally use internal, non-user-accessible SD or microSD cards simply because they offer greater flexibility than soldered-on chips do - companies merely need to swap out cards to offer different SKUs of their product with different capacities. Read on.įirst off, Microsoft had never intended Windows Phone 7's storage to be expandable, swappable, or removable. How did it get to this point? Why wasn't it communicated to users that this was such a problem before the phones ever went on sale? And if it really is such a problem, why did Samsung dare to make the microSD slot user-accessible in the Focus the first place? All good questions - and in talking with a number of sources the past few days, we've pieced together some of the answers.
There are many reasons to be excited about Windows Phone 7, but a bleak spot has been Microsoft's message - or lack thereof - on user-expandable storage, and the situation finally came to a head last week when AT&T told Samsung Focus owners to hold off on buying microSD cards altogether until Microsoft had a chance to certify some for use with the platform.
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