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Return of 4GB RAM in smartphones by 2026 amidst DRAM crisis, microSD slots make a comeback
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I bought my phone in 2019.
Are you saying that phones today DON'T have microSD?
A shocking number of them don't. Manufacturers have figured out that they can get more people to spend a higher amount for a phone with larger fixed storage when you don't have the choice to easily expand your storage.
I refuse to buy a phone without it for data loss reasons. If a phone dies with a sd card in it, that can be recovered in a lot of cases. If it dies without one, you are just SOL.
I like your general philosophy, but need to point out something.
If you need to recover the SD card to prevent (significant) data loss, you've already messed up. Backups should be handled regardless of storage medium.
I think he meant data on an SD card is easier to be recovered. You just take it out and bring to a store if needed. With soldered on chips, good luck with desoldering to begin with.
Yep, I usually just migrate the sd card betweent phone or clone the old one to a new one. I have incremental backups of my data from the last like 15 years becasue of that.
Yeah no doubt, I use syncthing to do my running backups but I like to pretend that isn't there. I kind of treat my sd card as an extra just in case backup. It catches things like downloads and the misc bullshit I have on my phone or transfer between computers.
The microSD card was removed from many phones, as I recall it was a bit before 2019 they started that.
The flagship models from the brand I bought didn't. I downgraded just so I could have microsd. The headphone jack or better specs was a bitter pill to swallow.
Question, do you install more than 256 or 512 GB on your phone that you need an SD card or are you using it for other reasons?
1gb. Just extra storge for apps, pictures and lately drone. Not so much lately since I've been running my own "cloud" server.
I bought a new Galaxy and it didn't. So I sent it back and bought an older model. I couldn't believe it when it showed up with nothing but a sim slot.
Im just curious, what do you need all that space for? I also would like an SD slot as well, but i also never found i need the space anyway. I will always go with the 256gb since the 512 or higher are ridiculously priced. I cache like 20gb in music from my music server, about 50 to 75gb in apps and games, and the rest is for photos and videos I take. My phone is almost 4 years and only now is it getting full, but I can just remove the pics since I back them up to my NAS.