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

On 14 Jul 2025 15:25:42 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote :

That you and Frank can't figure out what an sd card does is one piece of

 
  Well, we - well at least I - know full when what it can do, but *you*
keep 'forgetting' the use for which there is no alternative, so you keep
shooting yourself in the feet.

Let's take just *one* use, Frank, for which there is no direct alternative.

In 2021, you expand each of your 3 phones' storage by 32MB for ~20 bucks.
In 2022, you expand it even further, by 64MB for about the same cost.
And, in 2023, you expand it to 128MB, again, for about 20 bucks each.

Not one of you fools has any idea nor any experience with sd cards.

 
  <BARF!> I used them ever since *2013* in my first phones and tablets,
which had too little Internal Storage, ranging from 4GB (effectively <=
1GB) to 8GB and 16GB.

It's not clear at all you understand what an sd card does in a phone.

For example, it's not at all clear, Frank, from your absurd claims about
cloud storage, that you understand what I wrote above about expanding
on-the-phone relocatable storage for multiple phones, with privacy, and no
subscriptions, where that expansion happens when you need it, at today's
prices (instead of font-loading required storage at yesterday's prices).

  Now, I don't use them anymore, because I have no need for them. (And
yes, my phone *does* have a SD-card slot.)

It's not clear at all you understand what an sd card does in a phone.

How are you going to populate a second phone, exactly as you had populated
the first, without needing to have a "second copy" of all your stuff?

How?

If you do plan ahead for populating a second phone (e.g., if your first
phone suddenly stops working), you *must* keep a second copy around.

The fact you clearly don't understand that fact is disconcerting, Frank.
It means you have absolutely no idea of what an sd card does in a phone.

  BTW, as I mentioned recently and you 'conveniently' ignored, only the
current bottom (A16 and A26) models of your beloved Samsung Galaxy
A-Series still have a SD-card slot (shared as second SIM or SD-card).
The A36 and A56 do not have a SD-card slot.

I read everything you write, Frank, because sometimes you say things that
are useful, but stop saying it's my "beloved" phone. I'm no MAGA zealot.

I saw the bullshit you previously wrote about a cheap phone (free actually)
being "beloved" to me, and I had ignored it when you said that absurdity.

I've had Motorola Razrs, Kiocera "smart hones", iPhones, Moto G, LG, etc.

I don't give a shit about Samsung, nor about any particular model.
I got three of those phones for free (and then two more for free).

If I hadn't gotten them for free, I would have kept the half dozen LG Stylo
3Plus phones that I bought at Costco for around $130 as stocking stuffers.

(I did love that the LG Stylo 3 Plus had a removable battery though!)

For you to conclude that any given model of any given brand is my "beloved"
model is evidence that you don't own basic deductive reasoning skills.

The only reason you see me talk about that phone is it's the one I have.
No other reason.

(Well, I do love the battery - which could start my car - it's so huge.)

  So if you want to keep your precious SD-card slot in the future,
you'll have to downgrade *and* be damn quick about it!

It's hard to downgrade from a free $180 MSRP Android hardware, Frank.
It's a low-end phone. And even you should be able to understand that.

Funny thing though, it does more than any iPhone ever sold does.

While most of that power is due to the operating system, some of it is due
to the fact its battery is more powerful than any iPhone ever sold, and it
has functional ports which no iPhone today has or ever will have again.

But saying a cheap Android is more powerful than any iPhone is like saying
the sun rises in the morning - since every intelligent person knows that.