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

On 1 Jul 2025 18:17:46 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote :

  Unless you buy some el-cheapo, no-brand (Chinese?) charger, any
charger should be a correct charger. Perhaps if it's underpowered, it
doesn't charge quickly or not at all, but all brand chargers should
implement the USB power protocols, i.e. USB BC, USB PD, etc.. (See
for example <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Power>.)
 
  Of course it's sensible to use a low power charger with something like
a smartwatch/activity-tracker and a (very) high power with something
like a laptop, but you should be able to swap those chargers without any
ill effect, i.e. the high power charger shouldn't blow up the
smartwatch/activity-tracker and the low power charger should do nothing
bad to the laptop (other than not charging it).

Sometimes Frank is right but Frank is simply wrong in the case above.

I get anything I want for free from Amazon Vine, and as a result, I must
have dozens of chargers, and the fact is that they're different.

When you review chargers, you'll see that the specs are completely
different between them and when you review items that are being charged,
you find that what Frank said (and Arno said the same thing) is just wrong.

The fact is there are plenty of low-power devices (not smartphones though)
which simply will not charge with a modern PD/QC USB-C charger.

They just won't.
That's just a fact.

Frank and others may be ignorant of that fact.
But it doesn't change that it's a fact.

Also, Frank is wrong on a few other counts, where some chargers are QC and
some are PD and some are a combination and even others are PD and QC
advanced standards, etc. There's a mix.

To say that any charger will charge a phone is like saying any fuel will
run an engine, whether it be jet fuel, kerosene/diesel or gasoline.

That's just wrong.
The USA M35 series military 2-1/2 ton 6x6 cargo truck could run just as
well on almost any fuel, but you won't get the charging speeds you pay for
if you try to charge a $2000 phone with a $5 5-Watt 1Amp charging brick.

Those who claim otherwise are simply clueless how phones actually charge.