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Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
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Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#12I'm going to side with Apple on this one. Transistors are basically free and ports are expensive and unreliable. I'm happy they've been moving to eSIMs. I'd be fine if my next iPhone only supported wireless charging.
No ports is better.
Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
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Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#14I have so many tablets and cheap phones that don't have the storage to play high-end mobile games, it would make a difference to me if I could expand my memory easily. (Edit: some folks got excited because I said "memory" when I meant "storage")
SD cards are storage, not memory.
SD cards are flash memory.
Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#15Why would they give up on three sources of extra revenue?
I can understand the upgrade required for extra storage and AI subscriptions, but what revenue is earned from the elimination of the headphone jack? I can only see the marginal costs of adding one in, but for consumers who want it, it'd be a sales tactic.
Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#16Headphone jack I’ve not really needed.
But I want a smartphone with a removable battery. Same with laptops.
Let me kill the power. Let me replace the batteries easily.
Give me thicker devices!
Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#17Why would they give up on three sources of extra revenue?
This is the real answer why manufacturers don't serve this part of the market
I recently bought a NOS Samsung Note 10 Lite. A quarter the price of the S24, has the wonderful S-Pen and a headphone jack. And even though the battery is ostensibly not user replaceable, it is an easy job that can be done in five minutes without risking breaking anything else.
Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#18I don't know if we need 8k video, but if it's going to be a feature it sure feels like we should have sd cards. This write-up is talking about 33GB/hr. Given the dinky ass 128GB that seems to be common, and given that the base install is often 30GB+, like, yeah, we need more storage. https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-9-8k-more-storage-346...
MicroSD cards are fantastic & I'd want them anywhere. But man it's just so preposterous that they have so drastically outpaced phone's builtin storage. 0.5 or 1TB are basically unheard of on phones, but there's plenty of whole SSDs with far more components and cost selling for $50 or less. It's wild. What a supply side economics setup, so many companies all keeping the whole mobile market back, deliberately.
Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
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#20Also FM radio
This was the defining feature of the best MP3 player I ever owned. (I believe it was a Sanyo Sansa.) I wound up using it way more than the MP3 functionality. I was spoiled, living in NYC at the time, but there was/still is so much good content out there, if you spend the time to look (college, community, pirate, etc.).
It's depressing that such functionality is missing from modern devices. Entertainment value aside, it can be a lifeline in times of crisis/emergencies.