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<i>Why camera does not have flash inside? It is reliable and faster.</i>
 

 

I admit I'm not an expert of smartphones, because I hate buying them. So I try to keep my latest buy alive as long as possible. So I went and check the spec of a random recent model and I saw that it sports 64GB of RAM. Much, much better than my old smartphone, but I wouldn't call it "huge". In fact in my smartphone I have about 40 GB of music and 12 GB of map data. The remaining 12 GB would fit the needs of the (few) remaining applications, but probably just for a while. And I don't record videos with the smartphone.

 

On my latest a6300 I tried for the first time some serious video shooting, at the max quality settings. I bought a 64 GB card for it, considering that it would be enough. Now, being a rookie in video, I'm probably shooting more than I'll do in future, because I have to learn and try a lot of things. But in the end I filled my card in a couple of days. Not by chance there are memory cards sporting 256 GB and 512 GB... That's why removable media still make sense for cameras. Not counting that embedding 64/128 GB of RAM into a camera would raise its price (clearly this is an apparent thing, because you have to separately buy the sdcard, but we know how marketing words). At last, putting a sdcard into a computer slot for transferring photos is still the faster way to do the job...

 

Given that, I understand your point about Lexar: being the smartphones the principal memory market rather than cameras, we're going to see an excess of offering, and some manufacturers have to shut down.