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A guess: You don't (re)write data on your phone storage much? This experience is common for my girlfriend who takes 50 GB of photos every few months, transfers them all to the PC and does it again, but uncommon for me who practically never uses the internal storage except for apps.

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Not really, these devices all have seen intensive use and are still being used in that way. Some only have a tiny amount of flash on board (e.g. Motorola Defy only has 2GB, I have 5 of these running as media player, MPD player, trailer camera and IP cameras) yet they persevere. Some (e.g. Defy) even have been used with swap-to-eMMC for a while, I ended up disabling this because it is just too slow but it made it possible to run some apps which otherwise would not run on 512MB devices. In short, I have not had problems with flash wear - yet.

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