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

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:31:36 +0200, R.Wieser wrote :

The difference matters.

 
And you *still* haven't mentioned which usage you are ranting about.

A phone without the sd card is always an inferior phone to one with it (all
else being equal) because sd cards do things which are impossible to do any
other way (even with the cloud).

Why do you think Apple/Google promote phones w/o the sd card slot?
They're not stupid.

They *know* a phone without sd will always cost more than one with it.
Because you have to do what Arno did - which is BUY EXPENSIVE storage.
Or, you have to buy EXPENSIVE cloud storage (at least 64GB in general).

Given a phone without sd is always vastly inferior in capability to one
with it (all else being equal), here is what I love about portable storage.

1. I got a free 64GB Galaxy A32-5G from T-Mobile in 2021
2. I immediately put in a ~20 64GB sdcard (vol label 0000-0001)
3. I had to replace that phone, twice, under warranty

Since my homescreen & APKs & data were saved to the sdcard,
all I had to do was pop the old card into the new phone.

Voila!
Everything worked (after tapping on the grayed-out homescreen icons).
Notice (almost) my entire phone was replicated WITHOUT needing the cloud.

I did have a problem with one-tap shortcuts, because I didn't realize you
have to be intelligent when you make them if you want them to be portable.

Then...

At some point, I needed *more* storage than a puny 128GB (in toto).
Guess what I did?

1. I copied the 64GB sd card temporarily over to my computer
2. I formatted a 128GB sd card to the same volume label
3. I copied the temporary data over to the new 128GB sdcard.

When I put it back into the phone, the phone didn't know the difference.
Yet, I doubled my portable storage.

Voila!

Try *that* with a crappy substandard phone that doesn't have an sd slot!
It's impossible.

A phone without the sd card is always an inferior phone to one with it (all
else being equal) because sd cards do things which are impossible to do any
other way (even with the cloud).