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Storage upgrades cost too much, and we need microSD cards back
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Micro sd cards aren't all that cheap right now either .
You don't need a new one each time you swap a phone. Many of us have old ones laying around. Plenty enough speed for photos and video.
No, but I have dozens of them just lying around from playing with Raspberry Pis.
Still WAY cheaper than phone manufacturer upgrades though.
For example, on the Pixel 10 Pro it'll cost you $120 to add 256 GB of storage (going from the 256 GB option to 512 GB option), and on the iPhone 17 it'll cost you $200 for the same jump.
A name-brand Sandisk 256 GB micro SD card costs about 60 bucks right now, or anywhere from half to less than third of the upgrade price. You could buy a 1 TERABYTE Micro SD card from Sandisk for less than Apple charges for 256 GB, and even if the $120 price from Google was your limit, you could still buy 512 GB of additional storage and have money left over.
And of course as someone else already mentioned, you don't have to get rid of your old storage media when you swap phones if it's on a portable Micro SD card, so you don't have to pay more money for storage every single time you get a new phone. Not only is it cheaper on its own, but it's also a less frequent purchase.
The onboard storage should be faster, which is obviously why it costs more, but I'm with you just give me some bulk cheap bulk storage for videos, photos and stuff
If a modern high speed SD card is good enough for 60fps 4k done footage, or whatever they're shooting now, it's probably fast enough for whatever you're doing on your phone.
But those cards can carry you between phones.
No but we all have a dozen laying around the house we can use.