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With a 128GB card, you might not have to do much handling. Just put it in and you have as much memory as the biggest iPad.

I heard that KitKat isn't too friendly towards app usage of external media. With that and the lack of card slots for newer smartphones, what the biggest usage today of such media?

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The just-released Galaxy S 5 has a MicroSD slot. So not all Android phones have removed SD storage.

Dont worry, Google just removed full SD access for apps in kitkat :) so that slot is great for storing cat videos you record, and not much else.

>lack of card slots for newer smartphones

My Galaxy S4 uses microSD.

Use cases? Phones, tablets, GPSes, MP3/portable video players...?

You don't need a card slot. If your device supports USB-OTG you can get one of these: http://www.meenova.com/st/p/m3r.html

Mine works great with my Nexus 7 (no root required thanks to Nexus Media Importer).

That seems like a great way to break the already weak connector on the 2012 N7.

I know there are alternatives but nothing can match the integration of an internal MicroSD slot, even if it's inconveniently located behind a battery.

If you're a photographer, that card is likely to be coming out of your camera every time you finish a shoot. The camera certainly isn't going to get the data off the card at the full 90MB/s over USB 2.0.

SD card gets the format right for me: I find SIMs to be the limit of my manual dexterity. The microSD format is just a data loss disaster waiting for a place to happen.

Solution: SD card for caching, but transfer off of cameras using 802.11ac.

Perfect for MacBook Airs with 64/128GB SSD's, since the 13" model has an SD card slot

Also complimentary for Gigabyte U2442s with 128gb and their xHDDs, since 14" Gigabytes have dual air venting systems with GPUs able to play Titanfall decently.

The SD adapter sits out way too far to not accidentally knock the card if you leave it in permanently.

I switched to using these: http://www.sandisk.com.au/products/usb/drives/cruzer-fit/ and hopefully a 128Gb version is not far away.

That's where the Nifty Minidrive comes in. You can use a MicroSD card in the adapter to fit in a SD card slot flush.

Yes, the size is now big enough to consider them as a storage/secondary hard drive for ultrabooks.

How would read/write speeds compare to, say, a USB3 external drive ?

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