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

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 "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.

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.

But a decently designed 64GB phone has portable storage aplenty.
So 64GB is just fine (and I stress phones more than most in terms of apps).

Note: Google/Apple make a *lot* of money off of whales who don't know this.
(or who have so much money that they don't care they bought crappy phones
because they can pay a *lot* more to make that crappy phone less crappy).

But even so, it's *impossible* to replace the missing functionality.
You can pay a lot. And you can get close. But you can't replace it.

Because it's impossible to replace.
If anyone thinks it is possible to replace, you need to explain how.