Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot? Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 19:16:46 +0200 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <102mrt3$18oa$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net lqSRgCgSYIOopdGpzbVT/AuraVGFBhhKJk0Uctwh680o0gRBak Cancel-Lock: sha1:+BEAMci3U5OdO3EhgcCJVIaKuZ4= sha256:YDaRaRRHY141hCmCb16N/KC2ABhKFSTNbTXvtfoMSe0= Content-Language: en-US, de-DE In-Reply-To: <102mrt3$18oa$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> Xref: csiph.com misc.phone.mobile.iphone:195644 comp.mobile.android:148908 Marion, 2025-06-15 18:20: > What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot? It's cheaper for the manufacturers. And SD cards also come with drawbacks: some (cheap) SD cards tend to fail without warning. And when used as "external storage" the stored content is not encrypted and thus not protected at all when the device gets stolen. And swapping SD cards regularly for backups is also not really that useful, since the slots are not designed for many card changes. Using an external USB storage via USB-C or apps like FolderSync etc. to copy files to a network storage is often the better solution. The only advantage of an SD card slot is, that you can expand the memory if needed - but since even main stream devices come with at least 64 or 128 GB of memory I personally never missed SD cards any longer. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de