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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?
Date: 27 Jun 2025 15:41:25 GMT
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Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> On 2025-06-20 09:47, Marion wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:26:33 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote :
> > 
> > 
> >>> Think about this next question, Carlos:
> >>> Q: Why would anyone (pay a lot) for more than 64GB of internal storage?
> >>> A: You tell me.
> >>
> >> I would not even consider a phone with only 64 GB.
> > 
> > Hi Carlos (from a kinder, gentler me, but still the logically sensible me)
> > 
> > May I ask when you say you wouldn't consider a 64GB phone if that phone had
> > an sd slot or not as it makes an astoundingly huge difference which it is.
> 
> I want more storage space, and I do not consider storage in a card as 
> equivalent. I consider it as a hack.
> 
> 
> For instance, my WhatsApp storage is several gigabytes. A lot of 
> storage. And can not go into a card. Ok, it can be done, but at the cost 
> of making it slower and less reliable.

  Not that it matters in these senseless non-discussions, but a SD card
doesn't have to be much slower than Internal Storage, probably only two
to three times slower for a fast (more expensive) SD card.

  And it normally is not less reliable. I've be re-writing SD cards each
day, ever since 2003 and never had a failure.

  That said, also I do no longer use/need a SD card in my phone (despite
it having a SD card slot).

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