Originally posted by JimC1101 Apologies to all. I have not been trying to stir anything up intentionally but in my many years here, I have never seen such posts where so polarizes for and against and some people are trying to make it a war. I don't think of it in that way. As I said, everyone has requirements and to me, they are all valid to each of us. I would never try to tell someone to stop posting and move on, unless they are harsh or unfounded, because this forum is about discussing our opinions. Once again, apologies.
None needed in my opinion. This discussion got a little more polarized than usual. You have a (valid) opinion and nothing wrong with posting it. I don't agree (for me) but that's no reason for things to get heated. And if I was a little strong you have my apologizes.
The problem is there are three options:
WiFi
GPS
Flash
Some want one, or two. Some want none, or all. It appears that Ricoh feels the FLUCard solves the WiFi (on this model), and that GPS built in is more important than flash built in. From an engineering standpoint this solution is the only one that works if you only have room for flash or GPS because external GPS prevents flash use of any kind, while built in GPS still allows flash (using an external model).
Is that ideal? Obviously not to everyone. And I would really, really like to hear from Ricoh the reasoning behind dropping the internal flash. I'm curious if there is more to it than just lack of space.