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Worth mentioning that the Nintendo Switch 2 supports SD Express, so in a few years millions of households will have these cards laying around.
*lying around Laying is transitive and requires an object.
Despite the title of the article, this seems useful in phones or laptops to me. Even if not user replaceable without opening the device it would make it possible to have replaceable drives at a tiny fraction of the current minimum size. Even just for relatability compared to soldered on storage it would be a plus.
The manufacturers don't seem to want that. Even the small Chinese companies which were the last holdouts have gone full forced-obsolescence.
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I need this slot added back to my phone. Thank you very much, phone manufacturers.
Try a Sony Xperia! Vote with your dollar or else they'll stop making them!
Their support is garbage: 1 Android version and only 3 years of security updates for a phone that cost nearly $1000. Google and Samsung offer 5+ years on their flagship phones.
The cameras are held back by incompetent software; the camera app does not even rotate for a left handed mode (they only need to rotate text and icons). Their camera app behaves like a point and shoot camera from 2004, and you have to treat it like that or your photos will be a blurry, underexposed mess. The cameras are technically fine, but the software implementation is truly terrible.
Yes, the phone has a headphone jack and micro SD slot, but those aren't worth it when everything else sucks. Sony is far, far behind other major Android manufacturers when it comes to software quality and support.
I gleefully gave Sony money for the 5 IV in late 2022. The phone stops receiving all updates next month (September 2025). Custom ROMs (e.g. LineageOS) are nonexistent because Sony has such an insignificant market share.
I won't be giving Sony any money for a new phone.
I’m still surprised the steam deck runs so well even with games installed to microSD - I’m not sure how they do it.
decent SD cards can do 200 or 300 MB/s of reads now
Considering the insane tempuratures the cards reach, and that it destroys brand new SD cards, I don't want them going any faster until it works safely.
I’m still surprised the steam deck runs so well even with games installed to microSD - I’m not sure how they do it.
The answer is probably that disk read speed just isn't that important for casual applications like games. We had a lot of great games even when storage was spinning rust.
I’m still surprised the steam deck runs so well even with games installed to microSD - I’m not sure how they do it.
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Try a Sony Xperia! Vote with your dollar or else they'll stop making them!
They've pulled out of my market (Australia) 6 years ago, so that's not really an option, even if I imported one. If I imported one, the majority of the handsets released before this year wouldn't be able to register on a network, given that the networks have gone and blocked the IMEI TAC associated with most of Sony's handsets.[1] This is due to Sony not having the correct carrier settings in order to roam onto them…
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decent SD cards can do 200 or 300 MB/s of reads now
Not in the Steam Deck, it maxes out at 104Mb/s. Considering the insane tempuratures the cards reach, and that it destroys brand new SD cards, I don't want them going any faster until it works safely.