Sujet : Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?
De : me (at) *nospam* privacy.net (NY)
Groupes : misc.phone.mobile.iphone comp.mobile.androidDate : 15. Jun 2025, 21:40:20
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On 15/06/2025 18:16, Arno Welzel wrote:
The only advantage of an SD card slot is, that you can expand the memory
if needed - but since even main stream devices come with at least 64 or
128 GB of memory I personally never missed SD cards any longer.
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. But there are still times when you need more storage than is built-in. SD allows you to extend the storage to whatever size you can afford.
Audible talking books download to your storage so you have offline access to them.
Some mapping applications such as Outdoor Map Navigator and HereMaps allow maps to be downloaded - again, to give you offline access when you don't have internet access such as on a car journey when your phone goes out of one mast's range and hasn't yet connected to another mast. And of course there are some remote places where large areas have no mobile internet coverage for mapping software that uses online maps.
My phone has 128 GB built-in, of which 100 is used for apps that cannot be configured to use an "external" SD card (in an internal slot, but Android calls that "external").
It also has as 256 GB SD card of which 76 is used for offline maps and Audible talking books and those apps which are capable of being moved from built-in to external.