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Why the hell did that stop (lemmy.world)
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[–] 77 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I still won't buy a phone without a microSD slot.

GET OFF MY LAWN!

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    What phones even still do? Sonys? Low end Samsungs? Fairphone?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My Motorola does

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Crazy how every time someone asks what brand even supports some previously-normal feature, the answer is always Motorola. Headphone jack, FM radio, SD card, stylus...

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They have been surprisingly good devices in past few years. No nonsense software, pretty good hardware for very acceptable price and like you said none of the good things missing.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Their cameras are always garbage, but other than that I've been always buying them since the Nexus line went dead because they're always the best for the least amount of money.

    If I'm expected to buy a new phone every two years my working thesis was that I'll pay very little for it. A lot of their phones are pretty decent for like $50-$150.

    I'll admit I caved a bit and bought a Motorola razr last Christmas though. It's much more like the phones I usually don't buy: no headphone jack, no microsd slot, a bit expensive, etc... But I wanted a phone that would actually fit in my pants comfortably for once.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, cameras are not usually comparable to high end stuff, but they are good enough for me. For my use case camera is just and after-thought. A good convenience to have at hand, but not a necessary one, especially not necessary to have 6 of the damn thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I miss the Nexus series because it kinda had the best of all worlds, but I'm in your camp where the camera is basically an afterthought.

    I took more pictures of like...wiring inside a wall than anything in the last couple of years. Some of that is probably related to the cameras on my phones being underwhelming, but also I just haven't been that interested in photography overall as I'm aging. I'd rather just live the experience rather than taking pictures or videos of it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Well, product design these days is all about chasing numbers. More speed, more memory, more refresh rate, more cameras, more pixels, etc. Am kind of saddened by the fact they stopped really paying attention to what humans need and ergonomics and are too busy chasing each other around for bigger numbers. I would have killed for qwerty keyboard on my phone or a smaller form factor. Keep the resolution up just make the damn thing smaller. With trackball for example we wouldn't need everything to be finger sized anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Right now running a Samsung Galaxy A53.

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  • [+] -28 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Why

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Because they want more storage? I honestly don't understand even asking the question lol

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Storage for what though? That’s why I asked. My device storage is 256 and I’ve only used 100, that’s with 700 songs downloaded. I’m curious what you need a ton of storage for.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I've about 2,000 and counting FLAC files on my micro SD card for high quality audio. Many from my CD collection, and a nice amount obtained through other means. I'm already at 90 gigs used in my 256 gig card.

    I'll be getting a new phone at the end of the year, and to transfer all that music (plus my commissioned art collection) all I'd have to do it just pop the card into the new phone.

    No wrestling with cloud storage subscriptions or having to worry about my digital stuff being in somebody else's hands. Just keep it on a tiny card smaller than my fingernail and back it up periodically to my desktop and my laptop. Best part is that I don't even need any adapters to use headphones, as Motorola phones still have headphone jacks.

    There's people with downloaded movies and shows they like having local access to without any streaming woes, folks who take tons of photos and videos, etc. Having an SD card slot is one of the requirements I need for me to want to use a phone.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    I like that all of my media is on a removable card I can pop in any device I want and it doesn't interfere with system files and apps. Makes the initial setup of a new device much easier, not to mention backing it up to my hard drive (cp -r * /media/user/whatever_disk and I'm done).

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  • [+] -43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because the march of time terrifies them.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If demanding better features means you're old, then fuck being young.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    That's the ultimate irony of being young now - satisfied with awful tech experiences. Watching videos on a tiny screen and listening to music on earbuds or even worse, a cell phone speaker.

    I recently saw an Amazon review where someone couldn't believe how much better full size headphones were than their apple airpods. A whole review blathering about why a speaker 25x larger sounded better. "Never imagined such a difference!!!" Funny af

    And the tech companies absolutely know this.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    From the average user's perspective, there is no real need.

    Back in the day your 0.2 megapixel camera would take up a lot of space. That's not the case anymore, especially with cloud storage and being able to just plug your phone into a computer and take the files off it that way.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Huh, buddy, I have some news for you, current cameras have evolved too which means that pics and especially videos take a lot of storage today too... (Not to mention that app resolution has also grown up which means they are heavier too).

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