Storage for the first production run

The pod stores audio on the device and syncs to your phone later, so storage decides how long Heed can record away from your phone. Audio is Opus at 24 kbps, mono. Our plan today is 512 MB soldered; this vote decides it for the first production run.

This is binding: we will build the board with the winning option. If supply or a test result makes that impossible, we will say so here first, with the reason.

	512 MB soldered	8 GB soldered	microSD slot
Recording time	About 40 hours, two days or more with voice detection	About 680 hours	Hundreds of hours on a 16 to 32 GB card
Cost	Lowest cost	Several times the cost of 512 MB at today's memory prices	Cheap part, but a socket and a card add parts and a failure point
Trade-off	Soldered, so nothing comes loose	Soldered too, but every unit carries the extra cost, whether you need the hours or not	A card can lose contact when dropped, needs power switching to save battery, adds about 2 mm of thickness, and fake cards are common

Exact part costs stay closed until they are real. The open book explains why.