You should be able to store the photos wherever you'd like. For a phone that creates images this large, we'd expect more storage out of the box before you even slip in the microSD.
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"You get a mere 140MB of integrated storage here"
Isn't it obvious you store images to the SD card?
You should be able to store the photos wherever you'd like. For a phone that creates images this large, we'd expect more storage out of the box before you even slip in the microSD.