[keeperofdakeys]

Google wants the Android platform to move away from SD Cards, their Nexus series really shows this. The Nexus S, their second Nexus phone, had no SD card. However, due to the requirements of a separate filesystem for USB Mass Storage, they partitioned the internal storage into two.

Then you get the Galaxy Nexus, with only one partition. It features Ice Cream Sandwich, with MTP (Mass Transport Protocol). MTP allows access to a filesystem without unmounting it, so the phone can continue to use the filesystem. The only real disadvantage of MTP is that OSX and Linux support is limited, since it is developed by Microsoft. It should also be said that ICS still supports USB Mass Storage, but the Galaxy Nexus cannot.

The Asus Transformer also does this, using a large internal storage with no SD card. More phones might switch to this model, but for now the SD card is not going away.

[gcp]

Why the hate on SD cards? I mean, what's the reasoning behind this?

[keeperofdakeys]

From what I understand, its because there is always 'wasted' space. If you have lots of movies and music, you might have a full SD card but empty internal; lots of applications and the opposite might be true. With a single internal space, all this goes away. Personally, I never want to remove my SD card because it houses so many applications and files I use on my phone.