Path: csiph.com!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: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:36:16 +0200 Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: <102mrt3$18oa$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <102nb3j$12chq$2@dont-email.me> <102oidg$2onr$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net sg3075qOO1RcBRloTsQ+lwFSjmZUZoT5xrDra+7zhftIA+9GF9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:UNs/h/IosiGMFNnUA9bMAnlt4v4= sha256:VFFi4sUjDHuvdE6Do7ByKUKOO0GaqdgLa8pDEqYEsvE= Content-Language: en-US, de-DE In-Reply-To: <102oidg$2onr$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> Xref: csiph.com misc.phone.mobile.iphone:195684 comp.mobile.android:148952 Marion, 2025-06-16 09:51: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 07:07:28 +0100, Andy Burns wrote : > > >>> I agree that having an SD slot in a phone might be a bit less useful now >>> phones have more built-in storage than they used to have. >> >> My first android phone is the only one I've owned with an SD card slot, >> and it really did need it to move partitions from the builtin storage to >> the card and increase the amount of swap space. >> >> Current phone has 16x the memory and 64x the storage, neither feel near >> the limit like that old phone did ... > > Apples to apples, a phone without sd capability is a crappier phone. > Because it can't do what a phone with sd capability can do - that's why. For me the quality of a phone is define by *many* *more* features beside having an SD card or not. For example having security update for at least 5-8 years is much more important for me than having an SD card slot. Also having vanilla Android instead of some manufacturer UI makes things much easier. > For "minimum" specs, my free 2021 Galaxy A32-5G has a thousand apps on it. > The 64GB permanent storage is holding all that with a bit of room to spare. Well - if you really need 1000(!) apps, then you need a lot of storage. But I can not even fathom why one would need 1000(!) apps on a device. I have less than 300 apps and 128 GB internal memory on a device which will get another three years of security updates. > So, my tentative conclusion is 64GB is a perfectly fine amount, even today. > As long as you have portable storage capability. > > I wouldn't dream of purchasing a crappy Pixel or iPhone with that little. > Because you can't increase the portable storage with crappy phones. And I *love* this phone! Everything works just as expected and with *vanilla* Android on it and not that crappy Samsung UI and all that Samsung bloatware apps. And no - I do *not* use *any* Google cloud services. I run my own Nextlcoud server where I keep *all* my data - address book, calendar, pictures, music and so on... I wouldn't use a Samsung phone without installing LineageOS first to get at least a decent Android version. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de