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Subject: Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?
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On Jun 16, 2025 at 12:53:17 PM EDT, "Alan" <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

> On 2025-06-16 00:51, Marion wrote:
>> 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.
> A phone without a built-in pocket knife is a crappier phone, becase...

Why stop there?   How about a floppy disk?   RS-232 serial port?  

As usual, Arlen is hopelssly lost.