Weekly poll: how much storage do you use on your phone? Are microSD slots still important?
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- Anonymous
- yAL
- 19 Jun 2022
Thanks to Huawei I am able to back up my phone data from my Mate 20 Pro to my NM card. Very convenient to use.
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- Anonymous
- uCp
- 19 Jun 2022
128GB is more than enough for me. I only use microSD card to store my pics, musics, and videos. I don't need a lot of storage capacity as apps are still installed at internal storage in the first place. Only certain apps like Telegram and Spotify to name just two have the ability to store files inside microSD card.
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- Olympus Oms
- 8pQ
- 19 Jun 2022
Slow cards are useless! But some people love to slow down their expensive flagship.
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- Alpha
- 80i
- 19 Jun 2022
Not Vital has the highest votes, and next year when companies start to remove the charging port, people will call it innovation lol..
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- Darth Revan
- X}g
- 19 Jun 2022
Well, a lot of midrange phones are capped at 128 gigs of storage, so a SD Card slot is a must have in the long run
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- Akashi Seijuro
- C9a
- 19 Jun 2022
It's always nice to have external storage option to keep important files into, as it can be a disaster if the phone fails one time and then all of my important files are gone. Not that it happens all the time, but it's always great to have peace of mind, knowing that my important files are safe just in case that some terrible software update would brick my phone or when the phone requires factory reset.
Also, having microSD card expandability doesn't take away the option of using online cloud storage, so I don't see any valid reason not to have external memory option for users like me who definitely need it.
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- Anonymous
- pLh
- 19 Jun 2022
Sad to see people don't realize that expanding storage isn't only reason to use microSD card. A microSD be can taken out and placed into another device and you have immediate access to the data stored in it. No need to spend time transfering.
This is very important for those into modding because internal storage has lots of restriction nowadays. To install a new rom, you must wipe internal storage. It's a real pain to backup and restore hundreds of gigabytes of data everytime a custom ROM is installed. Not to mention how easy it is to forget backing up and you just lost all your data moment you flashed a custom ROM. Had you saved those data into microSD card, they won't be touched in that process.
Finally if your phone died somehow, then data stored in it won't be accessible. If they were installed in microSD, accessing them is a walk in the park!
In conclusion removing microSD slot is an evil act like removing headphone jack port.
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- Anonymous
- mDc
- 19 Jun 2022
What, 19 Jun 2022what's a micro SD? What is a computer?
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- Anonymous
- mDc
- 19 Jun 2022
MicroSD is too slow from my experience, even for storing photos because the thumbnails and photos would only load with a big delay. But I don’t have a problem with people who want it.
- vrvly
- g5f
- 19 Jun 2022
Tyfyh, 19 Jun 2022I don't understand people who "can't live wi... moreActually with hi res sensors and raw files, filling your memory is easy. Not to mention if you got multiple hi res cameras in phone(like axon 40 ultra).
You could survive with about 128GB easily, that is if cloud storage was good enough, like mine is too slow, so is the internet, so it's hard to browse photos shot some time back. That's why I need space even if I upload.
I do have clean memory tho when I buy new phone...
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- Anonymous
- sUS
- 19 Jun 2022
Less than 10gb free on the internal 128gb. Less than 100mb free on the 400gb sd card.
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- travis999
- swC
- 19 Jun 2022
Tyfyh, 19 Jun 2022I don't understand people who "can't live wi... moreYeah,that's fine for YOU, but try living someone with either iffy or pricey data ,you will soon change your mind.
And as for being "safer",cloud stored,great,uptil provider has problem or decides not to bother anymore ,as have both Google and amazon,sometimes with no way to extract data back except to download and store elsewhere,try that with 38gb of pics on the end of a 500kb max mobile data link,that 38gb would have cost the equivalent of 2.5 days wages,when all amazon had to do was nothing,it was just them being stupidly snotty over one of their free pic data store account types ,but no other option was given but to download from one amazon account back up to another amazon account,also free !!
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- Benny
- 3A3
- 19 Jun 2022
I personally don't use too much storage on my phone, but I wish I did. I'm one of those people who routinely clean up their phone from videos, pictures, etc. because I know the storage is eventually gonna run out and I don't want this to happen at an inconvenient time. I wish I could just not worry about storage. My biggest gripe with microSD card slots though, is Android doesn't do enough to help you utilize the extra storage. It's janky and I wish it was seamless from the get go. You can't just set a few ground rules like installing games on the SD card by default, you have to move each game individually.
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- Naveen Chaudhary
- 7k0
- 19 Jun 2022
Having an external memory slot is very important considering many a factors. Not everyone stores their data on cloud services. Most importantly when the display freezes or breaks, touch doesn't work, the external memory is the best of backup. The memory developers are so lazy on developing faster storage, mobile starage has gone faster with UFS, while the external memory card makers are still stuck at age old technologies. Why don't they develop UFS for external memory cards
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- travis999
- swC
- 19 Jun 2022
Tyfyh, 19 Jun 2022I don't understand people who "can't live wi... moreYou mean carry a second device when the first can do the job anyway ?
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- user18
- tA$
- 19 Jun 2022
I mean I still used sd card, I kinda feel disappointed when see phone like realme gt or poco f3, I can't use my sd card
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- AnonD-1033007
- g8K
- 19 Jun 2022
Currently i have 128GB, it's enough for my needs. I can live without MicroSD slots/cards, they're useless for me anyways.
- YUKI93
- K1L
- 19 Jun 2022
Tyfyh, 19 Jun 2022Is there a particular reason you don't get an external... moreI already have an SSD external storage at my home, but I never bring it with me. That is why I also use a microSD card as well.
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- Tyfyh
- 3nd
- 19 Jun 2022
YUKI93, 19 Jun 2022For someone like me who always shoot photos in RAW format a... moreIs there a particular reason you don't get an external storage? Seems like you need one.
- Koishi Komeiji
- Kig
- 19 Jun 2022
if no microSD slot in almost all 5G phone, then nanoSD / NM Card is a solution since Huawei did their first nanoSD made with confirmedly faster as twice than microSD. but the price will be expensive than microSD's price