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Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?

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On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:31:13 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :


>> There are things a phone with a card in the sd slot can do that are
>> impossible to do any other way - so I agree it's a critically important
>> basic hardware feature if you want to make the most of your phone.
> 
> If this is "critically important" depends on the user.

Arno,

I'm logically sensible so you must pardon me for both agreeing with you and
disagreeing with you - purely on the basis of basic logic & astute sense.

The obvious logic is that if you paid for a phone with more than 64GB of
internal storage, then it was indeed "critically important" to you, Arno.

I realize you don't understand that rather logical assessment; but it's
pure logic that sd card storage costs far less than internal storage.

You can claim (as you have) that it's "less reliable" (and it is); but
that's essentially meaningless in terms of what you're putting on it.

You can claim (as you have) that it's "slower" (and it is); but again, all
you're putting on it is stuff like media and/or map data (which is huge).

The very fact you paid an arm and a leg for something that you *later*
claim is not critically important belies your assessment of the facts.

It was critically important for you to pay hugely for more than 64GB.
Which is the main point after all.
 
> For me personally an SD card is completely irrelevant. I just don't need
> it any longer. And yes, this was a deliberate decision for me and no, I
> don't care about what you say about this.

See above. You're NOT being true to yourself. 
You paid an arm and a leg for more than 64GB of storage, Arno.

I know you said there is no other Pixel but that's the whole point.
The fact you can't comprehend something that basic is worrisome.

You already paid very dearly for not having that sd card slot, Arno.
That's just a fact.

So of course you don't need it.
You already paid dearly because you didn't have it.

You had to pay dearly as a 64GB phone w/o sd is basically worthless.

>> For one, you can add massive storage for almost nothing in costs.
> 
> Which I don't need. I have around 2 TB of storage available on my own
> server and I have unlimited data on my smartphone. So uploading images
> and videos after recording them is no problem at all and I have no need
> for more than the internal 128 GB of storage in the phone. And when I
> once have to replace the phone in a few years, the next model will
> likely have 256 GB or more anyway.

Heh heh heh... You don't realize that you paid dearly for that 128GB.
Half of which you wouldn't have needed had your phone had the sd card.

>> This allows massive media (up to a terabyte) without another device.
>> For another, you can port a phone WITHOUT any other device involved.
>> The data is always available offline without any other devices involved.
> 
> Data which is *only* on the phone is always in danger of getting lost.

True. But as you said, you can back that up easily (and most of us do).

> Therefore I synchronize all important data with my own server anway. And
> that server does a backup daily to another geographical location. Every
> backup exists at least in three copies.

Yup. I back up my data too. Everyone who is intelligent does it I presume.

> And data which I need on the road is not that much: around 5 GB Open
> Street Map map data, another 6 GB for music and I keep the latest photos
> an videos I have taken - but since these get synchronized with my server
> anyway and archived after 6 months, I don't need to keep everything.

Hmmm... I wonder if you realize your arguments aren't self consistent?

Arno - the one thing about me is I'm always logically sensible.
Either you needed that 128GB... or you didn't need it.

Which is it?

Could you live with a 64GB phone that has no chance of adding storage?
Or not?

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