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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 07:19:12 +0100
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Arno Welzel wrote:

> Yes, having an *optional* slot for an SD card may be useful
> for some cases - but I don't see the absolute need for this any longer
> compared to the past days where a device without an SD card was more or
> less useless since the available internal memory was sometimes even less
> than 4 GB in entry level devices (like the HTC Wildfire S with only 512
> MB memory

Yes, I started in the days of 512MB storage and an SD card was a 
necessity.  With the bump to 7 years support, I wondered whether the 
increase in app-bloat during the phone's life would justify buying a 
256GB model instead of 128GB, but decided against it.