The Real Reason Why Micro SD Card Slots Are Disappearing from Smartphones

[Developer L]

to be honest, i don't need the card slot unless i want to save a lot of videos.

 

[syspry]

to be honest, i don't need the card slot unless i want to save a lot of videos.

Same here

 

[Almeuit]

I can see why some would want them... If they do not have unlimited data they may want to store movies for a trip and stuff on the phone easier -- and can do so cheaper by using SD cards.

Luckily some phones still have this as an option. That is one reason I like Android -- multiple options depending on your needs .

 

[LazarX]

I have had problems with SD cards on every android device I've had, NextBook, Optimus phone, and Samsung, In every case it came down to not card file system failure but the failure of the SD card interace itself. With three different manufacturers the cause has been the same in each one, failure of the SD drive interface itself.

 

[InfinitusGame]

There is just one reason behind it : Money :-$
As its said in the article thay can charge you 200$ for 32-64 GB more, while SD are cheap.
On the other hand, it´s true that they try to make smartphones as thin as possible, and the SD might be a problem.

 

[Neo_ii_Droid]

I can see why some would want them. . .

That is one reason I like Android -- multiple options depending on your needs .

Truly! And for some reason or for JIC (just-in-case), I bought another Samsung PRO 64GB microSDXC.

 

[Raptor007]

Given what a microSD card costs, we should NOT be paying $100 to go 32GB to 64GB or 64GB to 128GB at most we should be paying $25 for that bump but corporate profits (GREED) are the key to the price points. Some complain about the S6 losing the microSD but honestly its the best move Samsung could have made. How many times have you purchased a GS3, GS4, GS5 and wanted 32GB or the 64GB variant that Samsung made but NO carrier in the US would offer (or in Verizon's case even stock a 32GB at the store). They claim you get microSD but that the average user is clueless to know its not the same.

Google says microSD is confusing to the consumer, well Google did NOTHING to address it. Is a HDD confusing to the consumer, no its not. If they had designed Android to correctly use microSD and enforced the rules that would have made apps actually be designed to look for it and if its there offer the option to store the app on the card or not.

Stop treating consumers as children and actually educate them.

 

[kirksucks]

I cant afford unlimited data. I had a Droid turbo for 2 weeks (no sd) and almost exceeded my monthly cap just looking at my cloud photos.

It's no coincidence that unlimited plans died around the same time as the popularization of cloud storage and streaming data services.

Follow the money

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[kirksucks]

Lol they're confused because they started calling the internal memory the SD card. And the SD card, extSDcard. Just call internal memory, internal memory and no one will be confused.

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[gdasilva16]

I think it is crappy they are taking external storage away. I want to get an S6, but I am not giving up my 14+ GB of stuff on my micro SD.

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Exactly

 

[thisismelsemail]

So you're saying i should just forget about the 28+ gigs of music i have on my sd card. The g4 is a 32gig phone. Less than that with all the [language removed] firmware taking up space. If i were to move all of my pictures and music from my sd card to my phone i wouldn't have room for anything. Transfer rates don't really matter for music and pictures. I pull up a picture on my sd card just as fast as one on my phone. Same with music. No better quality or anything. Yes there is spotify and such for music. I am a user of spotify and think it is a great service. However, spotify doesn't have everything. That 28 gigs of music i have is all stuff spotify doesn't have. To take it one step further, ive restored a nandroid backup off an sd card and off of internal storage. Both restored at relatively the same time. ( within 30 sec of each other ) i just don't understand how taking the sd card away is better for us.

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[20degrees]

All this talk about no sd slot and I'm just sitting here waiting for my 128gb for my G4.

At least LG isn't so greedy. Their phones are cheaper than the leading 2 and they actually gave me way more with the 2 promos.

 

[boscharun]

Lesser memory you have on the phone, the more you will go for cloud based stuff. That means more money coming right

 

[arinium]

Exellent points. Why on Earth they still use FAT? Also, I have used micro-SD cards with many devices and sometimes the device has suddenly stopped recognizing the card and a bit later it has recognized it again. But I can't deny it is much cheaper way to expand the memory than to buy a heavily overpriced version of the phone with larger memory.

 

[dariuskaunelis]

All the arguments FOR SD cards in phones are highly sensible and valid for me, and most of the counter-arguments are bloody senseless. Nevermind, everything has been discussed here down to the bottom. So... there is an increasing lot of high-end devices stripped of lots of nice properties, like FM radio, pen, SD card or removable battery, for all you out there in love with the new trend, so simply go and buy them. But where is MY high-end device with all of the abovementioned properties intact? One like the marvelous Note I or II? I never question your right to not have any of these properties in your phone. But I wish to pay my money for uncastrated device, be it heavier by 10 grams and bulkier by 1 mm. It will fit in my pocket anyways and my hand is strong enough to lift those extra grams from the table. Where is my device? Me and those like me are increasingly left with no other choice than (my choice) to stick as long as possible with the old phone or laptop (one with multiple swappable optical/hard drives, all sorts of connections and expansion options, easily replaceable battery, PCMCIA/Express card port, not stolen 10% of screen real estate in pixels due to transition from 8/5 to 16/9 standard, easily upgradeable memory and so on, and so forth) OR comply with the new fashion (coded as new PHILOSOPHY), be it as silly as it may, which originates not by customer pull, but by push from up there, on corporation CEO level. From production perspective, it is much, much more convenient to have a billion of customers with one taste and standardized habits/preferences (let alone the possibility to make profits from all kinds of subscription and data circulation). Yes, it IS a plot and nothing less. There is no parity or cooperation between the two constituents of the producer/user dyad. Gravity center over the last decade has radically moved towards the first. The ultimate goal of Marxist vision to „standardize“ human existence is about to be reached under what seems to be highly competitive, innovative and dynamic capitalist society. Reality is different. Policy and silent agreements instead of competition. Image and cheap gloss instead of real innovations. Stagnation or rollback instead of mental/creative dynamism. Forced standards instead of diversion.

So, finally, behold a brief declaration which will, anyway, hardly be read or contemplated by anybody concerned . Dear CEOs, engineers and visionaries of IT corporations, you rob a lot of people of their houses with a shiny smile and a foolish phrase "Learn something new", which actually reads "learn to live outside". For the sake of good, let users dictate, instead of dictating them. Never teach users what to like and how to live/behave. Because it's exactly the user, not the specialist, CEO or visionary, who knows better. Let people be different. Give people choice. Diversity rules.

 

[jemfalor]

I hear ya. Loud and clear. I bet the people who want removable storage are also the ones who cried when floppy disks started dying off. Times change. You can either roll with it, or continue to complain the rest of your life. (life is too short for that) Here's a classic tune some might like like, just for this occasion:
youtube.com/watch?v=eGgLPriZUSA

not sure how that analogy came about, lol, but i could see phones without microsd slot to be as crippled as a pc with only one sata port. well you could partition your 4gb hdd, who cares? seriously. upload your <4gb of personal gif and/or low res jpg files to the cloud, who cares?

no idea why this select group would insist on inserting, mom i found the cheapest deal, hope it works forever", a microsd card when they are not willing to. the card slot is optional. lmfao.

hahaha

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