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Now can we please get them back in phones?
They are in some phones.. Shop around :)
Yeah, just like headphone jacks. Oh wait...
They are, but mostly in budget phones. If you want a flagship camera or processor as well, you're sadly out of luck. And god forbid you want a folding phone.
Which is pretty stupid because you'd think that it would be really logical to have a way to have plenty of storage for those flagship cameras which would fill that lame ass basic storage... I mean do those flagships have more than a TB of storage? I'd think not most models.
I would bet money that phone makers such as Google keep storage low to steer people towards their cloud storage options.
They aren't really even in budget phones anymore. When you don't want a notch and want a headphone jack there is almost nothing to choose from: https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2023&chk35mm=selected&sFormFactors=1&sOSes=2&idDisplayNotch=1 :/
I know, and I do, but the point is choices shouldn't be so limited. They should be standard.
Speak for yourself. My Motorola g73 has a micro SD card slot.
Oh I know, I'm still on Motorola because they have unlockable bootloaders and SD card slots. But in recent years they've started taking them out of some of their mid-range models.
Point is there should be more options. Removing the SD card slot is just a bullshit way to push cloud storage.
Yes, I want storage offline, specifically.
Mine's got one.
look into chinese phones, vast majority of them have it