Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
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- 13 Apr 2023
aaronwt, 13 Apr 2023I've been using cell phones since 1994. The only time ... moreNever did I have a MicroSD card fail. However, I can not say the same about intMem.
Indeed, only cloud storage or a home backup are helpful against theft. However, only the phone's internal storage and MicroSD can be written to in real-time, and out of the two, the former has more vulnerabilities.
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- 13 Apr 2023
HT, 12 Apr 2023You really enjoy losing your data, don't you?I've been using cell phones since 1994. The only time I have ever lost data on a cell phone, was from a micro SD. I have never lost any data from the internal storage on a cell phone.
I've also never had a broken phone or cracked screen. But I did have a phone stolen once. If that were to happen now, a lot of good an SD card would do when the phone is stolen. But all my data is also in the cloud. So I would still have access to it.
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- 12 Apr 2023
Anonymous, 12 Apr 2023I've never lost any data. If you have lost I'm so... moreThanks, though I have not broken any phone, however, a Media Transfer Protocol bug once wiped my internal storage.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/16e6kc/i_just_deleted_a_random_folder_in_my_internal/.compact
Data recovery software on a computer is ineffective on internal storage.
But feel sorry for the person in the video from my last comment.
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Anonymous, 12 Apr 2023Good this phone does not have micro SD card slot in the 202... moreUseless? This guy learnt the the contrary the hard way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDYiJRhzXY0
His MicroSD-less phone got stuck on the boot screen and he had to hard-reset it.
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- 12 Apr 2023
HT, 12 Apr 2023You really enjoy losing your data, don't you?I've never lost any data. If you have lost I'm sorry for you.
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- 12 Apr 2023
Good this phone does not have micro SD card slot in the 2020s, because micro SD card slots are useless which takes up additional space on motherboard. Just buy a USB type-C SD card reader, if you want to relive nostalgia of the good old days.
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- 12 Apr 2023
Kris17, 12 Apr 2023UFS4.0 memory is WAY faster than any SD card card out there... moreMicroSD is still fast enough for 8K video and can be ejected when your phone breaks.
This benefit is undeniable, even if the internal storage UFS was a thousand times faster.
When your phone breaks, you will wish you had your data on "dated" technology that you can eject and read externally.
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HT, 12 Apr 2023MicroSD is abundantly fast enough for 8K video, much faster... moreUFS4.0 memory is WAY faster than any SD card card out there. There is heavy bottleneck on SD card when you transfer 8K videos through USB Type C. It would be a waste of these high-speed technologies because of your old SD card. Besides, most people have dead SD cards stuck in their phones due to data corruption while incorrectly formatting it. We don't have worry about those issues anymore.
SD card is considered a dated technology. UFS is more expensive of course, but with good reason. This is a flagship device. If you want SD card functionality, opt for a mid-range device. They don't go well together anymore.
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- 12 Apr 2023
Anonymous, 12 Apr 2023Cloud storages, internal storages. Way too much storage alr... moreMicroSD is abundantly fast enough for 8K video, much faster than slow cloud storage, requires no internet connection which needs cellular reception, and a MicroSD card can be ejected when your phone breaks.
Adding 1 mm of thickness would allow for far more battery space than the lack of the MicroSD card slot. And it does not subject your photo and video memories to the vulnerability of a broken phone.
Where "old technology" is less vulnerable to data loss, "old technology" is superior.
When your phone is broken and your data is inaccessible due to being stored internally, the last thing on your mind will be that millimetre of added thickness.
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- 12 Apr 2023
HT, 12 Apr 2023You really enjoy losing your data, don't you?Cloud storages, internal storages. Way too much storage already available. No need for slow micro sd cards. Wasted space in tiny body. Slightly larger battery > micro sd, slight bigger camera sensor > micro sd, literaly anything inside tiny phone > micro sd. I rather have better vibration motor than micro sd. Ancient technology, use it only for dash cams and similar slow things
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- 12 Apr 2023
SteveUk, 12 Apr 2023True - but if you're just doing that most/all of the t... moreExcept that the MicroSD card can be removed when the phone is inoperable.
So MicroSD gives users both possibilities.
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HT, 12 Apr 2023A MicroSD card can also be accessed by the computer through... moreTrue - but if you're just doing that most/all of the time, you may as well have internal storage... 😄
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SteveUk, 12 Apr 2023Hmm... I'm just going by personal experience, having d... moreA MicroSD card can also be accessed by the computer through the phone through a USB cable.
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HT, 12 Apr 2023If you connect you phone through a USB cable, it uses somet... moreHmm... I'm just going by personal experience, having done both: for the micro SD card, put it in the laptop and drop/drag the files you want to the portable HDD or laptop's HDD. And similarly for the internal phone storage, attach the phone to the laptop using USB C to C cable and transfer the files the same way.
I would say it's exactly the same experience - but with micro SD card you have to take your phone case off and take the SD card out and put it in the laptop (which can be fiddly)... it's actually a lot easier with internal storage just to plug in a C to C cable 😄
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- 12 Apr 2023
SteveUk, 12 Apr 2023I've only ever transferred data from my phone onto a l... moreIf you connect you phone through a USB cable, it uses something called the Media Transfer Protocol, MTP.
It is known for being slow, laggy, and buggy. In comparison, mass storage is fast and smooth. MicroSD is accessed as mass storage device if connected to a computer.
Can you open a folder with 3000 files through MTP or does it freeze or give you some whiny "couldn't get object handles" error halfway through?
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Anonymous, 11 Apr 2023Come on sd is dead forever. Dead and dead. Good or not does... moreYou really enjoy losing your data, don't you?
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- 12 Apr 2023
NeonHD, 11 Apr 2023Unfortunately MicroSD never came back since the S20. That i... moreThanks god. SD card is just a waste of space inside such tiny body.
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HT, 11 Apr 2023Indeed, one should back up ones data. However, if the phone... moreI've only ever transferred data from my phone onto a laptop (or to a HDD through a laptop) - and it's exactly the same, whether it's internal phone storage or micro SD card... you still have to copy/transfer the files, regardless 🤷♂️
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- 11 Apr 2023
Torn between navigation buttons and navigation gestures. Which one do you use and why? Please help.
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- 11 Apr 2023
HT, 11 Apr 2023Let's see how you, Miguel SD'erd, will get over y... moreCome on sd is dead forever. Dead and dead. Good or not doesn't matter in this point.