Not exactly “news” but the recent Samsung Galaxy Ax6 phones (A26, A36, A56) all does not have the MicroSD card slot, only the Galaxy A16 still has it.

I fucking hate this. I love having a mini-TV with me. I can load up a Terabyte of TV shows I love rewatching. You know, maybe you travel or something. Also, good for recording like a lot of videos. Now, new Samsung phones cannot do that anymore.

Sorry for the rant, but honestly, I have to vent: Fuck Samsung. Fuck this capitalist bullshit.

I’m thinking of stop buying Samsung for the future, but honestly, other manufacturers might follow suit, so it ultimately might not matter. I hate this bullshit. I will carry a portable SSD if I have to, I ain’t buying your stupid cloud. I’m broke AF and I don’t got no money for subscriptions. (Also, they could hold your data hostage and refuse access for random “ToS” violations)

What are your thoughts? What’s the future of MicroSD card slots in phones?

(future looks so bleak)

  • @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    0•7 days ago

    I haven’t really thought about extra storage in awhile, when most phones are 256GB or more it’s hard to fill up that much space. At most I keep my music (maybe 30GB or so), some offline shows when traveling, photos, etc… I’m barely at 60GB of usage on mine.

    All I ever remember with SD cards in phones was how slow they are, how often they would randomly break and corrupt the data somehow, and how annoying it was to get stuff to properly work with content on an SD card.

    • TonyOstrichEnglish
      0•6 days ago

      I just bought a 1TB SD card and cloned the 512GB card that was in my phone over to it because I was running out of space. My phone is rooted which does make forcing or tricking apps to use the SD card for storage much easier.

    • @beastlykings@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0•7 days ago

      Yeah my buddies all buy the biggest phone capacity they can get, and I barely thought about my last phones 128gb. I had to check my current phones capacity just now, thought it was 256 but I guess it’s 512.

      I’m using 180 ish, but I could easily be under a hundred again if I deleted a bunch of crap that’s built up 🤷‍♂️

      I do remember losing a months worth of photos years ago when my SD card died, and my Dropbox had gotten full. That was the day I upgraded my Dropbox. I’m on a yearly subscription, it’s due to renew next month, I hope to be on immich by then. Just gotta find time.