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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

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Post by dotancohen »

tomwheeler wrote: post #27
dotancohen wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Similarly, I now have a Samsung Galaxy A52, which has a headphone jack and a microSD slot (but no user-replaceable battery). I'm not particularly price conscious, so I feel like Samsung lost out on an opportunity to sell me a flagship phone because those no longer have these features I care about. Luckily, this much cheaper phone still has the two that are most important to me. When they stop offering them at all, I'…

You just explained something that I've been noticing more and more lately. A decade ago, the early adopters and nerds would have the flagship phones, and everybody else would have the cheap phone. Today the power users are using the absolute cheapest phones and the general public has the flagships.

Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone

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Post by PaulHoule »

dotancohen wrote: post #19
nezza-_- wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SD cards are flash memory.

SD cards do not increase the memory available to user applications. They are storage devices, even if the technology behind them has the word memory in the name.

It's not the memory that's the problem, it's that games like FGO require 10GB or more of flash storage which is most of a 16GB device particularly when you consider overhead for software updates. It's not like the game has high memory requirements but it sure has a lot of levels, textures and stuff.

It's amusing the the IBM Mainframe world still uses the word "storage" to describe RAM.

Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone

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Post by reify »

How about the option to totally remove google without installing a custom rom.

you start your brand new phone and a pop up appears:

Would you like to remove google and all the other bloatware to start with a blank phone and choose to install exactly what you need and want.

Please click here.

I would then seriously consider buying a new phone instead of slightly older phones I can install custom roms on.

now that would be a thing.

In a perfect world

I have an old Samsung S4 2013 (android 11) and an old Motorola G3 (android 11). I keep the G3 to listen to FM radio as modern phones dont have the FMradio.

My main phone is a onplus 5T with android 14. A superb phone, 8 years old and still runs better than any modern phone my friends own. Cost me £75

Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone

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Post by jemmyw »

I've got a Sony Xperia phone from last year. It's got a headphone jack and sdcard slot, waterproof, latest chipset etc. Plus a very close to vanilla Android. Yet they sold so few that Sony are pulling out of the US phone market. It seems to me that folks who say they want those things don't actually want them that much.
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