What on Earth do people put on their SD cards? I use Subsonic, I give it the whole phone as a cache storage and I stream my music over 4G. Anytime I don't have internet, I have 16GB of music at my finger tips.
Unless you're out of Internet range for days at a time, I don't understand the need for over 16GB of local storage.
I don't know what people are talking about when they talk about build quality anymore. My Droid 1 was TOUGH. I dropped it repeatedly and it never broke and it held up for 3 years. But even when it was new, they were inconsistent. The sliding action was different, the button quality varied from one to the next, but it was heralded as tough and "feels good". On the other hand, my Galaxy Nexus has no flaws and has been dropped just as hard (I slung it out of my hand across a concrete parking lot once on accident) and has never had a case on it and is in pristine condition.
Well, I guess it also depends upon "where" on Earth people put stuff on their SD cards. The (mobile data) speeds I get here (in India), even on 3G aren't good enough for streaming video. Keeping that in mind 16G isn't too much.
My apologies. I think of my comtemporary peers' mocking of my phone when I hear others make the argument and forget that circumstances may vary. I can see why swappable storage would be valuable, especially in places where an Android phone may be a more primary computing device.
I know it's still a compromise, but that all having been said, the Galaxy Nexus can be a USB host device so you could use a reader or a jump drive or other USB devices (mice/keyboards/etc)
Unless you're out of Internet range for days at a time, I don't understand the need for over 16GB of local storage.
I don't know what people are talking about when they talk about build quality anymore. My Droid 1 was TOUGH. I dropped it repeatedly and it never broke and it held up for 3 years. But even when it was new, they were inconsistent. The sliding action was different, the button quality varied from one to the next, but it was heralded as tough and "feels good". On the other hand, my Galaxy Nexus has no flaws and has been dropped just as hard (I slung it out of my hand across a concrete parking lot once on accident) and has never had a case on it and is in pristine condition.