I can’t accept the fact that there is no external sd card support.
OK, this is going to sound dismissive, and I really don’t mean it to be. But why?
For data transfer, you can still use the USB port (I do it all the time). Other than that, there’s more than enough storage available onboard for any reasonable amount of usage. I don’t even really keep anything critical on my device at all, so what there is is kind of overkill already.
I just don’t understand the need for an SD card with storage being as plentiful now as it is. I want to understand.
If you want to carry your whole music library around, a big SD card makes that work. I understand streaming is the trendy thing and I was using Navidrome myself, but I rolled back my plan and switched to SD card for it. I’ve saved money.
Another use case is for carrying a heap of ROMs. I’ve also done this until I realised gaming on my phone was uncomfortable and bought a dedicated device.
Having the SD card wasn’t a dealbreaker for me when I bought this phone but I do really like having it.
I’ve always said I’ll listen to music more when I get through my podcast backlog and audiobook backlog. Neither of those seem particularly…imminent, lol.
I’m a data hog. Storage is cheap and it should be available on my phone also.
People always saying physical Media is important, and most of the time they tink of cds and dvds.
I use my sd cards for physical Media sorage.
I used my camera and accidentally recorded 40 gigs of video.
With external card I do not have to worry.
Music, books, picture heavy pdfs, movies full tv series sits comfortably in my palm.
It really depends on how much you are using your phone.
If I would go back 20 years I would be attached to my desktop pc and my ebook reader pocket pc. ln that case I would not need extra storage for my phone. Tho thinking of it… I had two different external cards for that handheld even back then. :)
I use an encrypted offline raid at home and encrypted cloud storage that automatically backs up. My phone is basically empty, plenty of room to accidentally record 40 gb+
OK, this is going to sound dismissive, and I really don’t mean it to be. But why?
For data transfer, you can still use the USB port (I do it all the time). Other than that, there’s more than enough storage available onboard for any reasonable amount of usage. I don’t even really keep anything critical on my device at all, so what there is is kind of overkill already.
I just don’t understand the need for an SD card with storage being as plentiful now as it is. I want to understand.
If you want to carry your whole music library around, a big SD card makes that work. I understand streaming is the trendy thing and I was using Navidrome myself, but I rolled back my plan and switched to SD card for it. I’ve saved money.
Another use case is for carrying a heap of ROMs. I’ve also done this until I realised gaming on my phone was uncomfortable and bought a dedicated device.
Having the SD card wasn’t a dealbreaker for me when I bought this phone but I do really like having it.
I’ve always said I’ll listen to music more when I get through my podcast backlog and audiobook backlog. Neither of those seem particularly…imminent, lol.
An ezpz 256 gigs without spending an extra $200 used to be orgasmic is all I can say
I’m a data hog. Storage is cheap and it should be available on my phone also.
People always saying physical Media is important, and most of the time they tink of cds and dvds.
I use my sd cards for physical Media sorage.
I used my camera and accidentally recorded 40 gigs of video.
With external card I do not have to worry.
Music, books, picture heavy pdfs, movies full tv series sits comfortably in my palm.
Interesting. Thanks for letting me know.
I think of myself as a data hog also, but only on my computer; I’m mostly a minimalist on my phone.
It really depends on how much you are using your phone.
If I would go back 20 years I would be attached to my desktop pc and my ebook reader pocket pc. ln that case I would not need extra storage for my phone. Tho thinking of it… I had two different external cards for that handheld even back then. :)
I use an encrypted offline raid at home and encrypted cloud storage that automatically backs up. My phone is basically empty, plenty of room to accidentally record 40 gb+