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Quick smartphone question
Feb. 4th, 2015 12:58 pmSo I was getting ready to choose, went to kiosks to try them out*, and suddenly noticed one design element that I had not checked for before: of the 5 "finalists" I was looking at, only one, HTC's One M8, did not have the charging plug hidden behind a water/dust protective swivel access door. Samsung's S5's door is at the bottom, but at least hides only the charge plug - Sony's Z3 compact's door accesses and thus leaves open the SD card when recharging. This made me blink, and rethink my dealbreaker criteria.
So I ask, for anyone who has a phone with one of those protective doors, has it impeded anything? Has the door ever broken? Am I weird for thinking it shouldn't be shared with other vitals?
I just wonder how they fare in prolonged daily use; also, the design seems to assume that recharging will be done at home in comfort, security and warmth.
I will likely, if past use is any indication, have to sometimes recharge "on-the-go" with a battery pack, so in my pocket (if with a coat) or bag (if summer). Thus, being outdoors in some way, I wouldn't want any even remote possibility of accidentally losing an SD card or something, or breaking the swivel.
*: I do like the Rideau Centre Bell kiosk since most of the phones there are live models, so I get to physically play with them. Otherwise a dummy piece of plastic does nothing, not even giving the idea of how it feels in the hand since the security tethers foil that idea.
So I ask, for anyone who has a phone with one of those protective doors, has it impeded anything? Has the door ever broken? Am I weird for thinking it shouldn't be shared with other vitals?
I just wonder how they fare in prolonged daily use; also, the design seems to assume that recharging will be done at home in comfort, security and warmth.
I will likely, if past use is any indication, have to sometimes recharge "on-the-go" with a battery pack, so in my pocket (if with a coat) or bag (if summer). Thus, being outdoors in some way, I wouldn't want any even remote possibility of accidentally losing an SD card or something, or breaking the swivel.
*: I do like the Rideau Centre Bell kiosk since most of the phones there are live models, so I get to physically play with them. Otherwise a dummy piece of plastic does nothing, not even giving the idea of how it feels in the hand since the security tethers foil that idea.
