Manufacturers don’t make displays under 6 inches available for purchase, with special cases (such as the iPhone Mini) being made under exclusive contracts. The best lead they have so far is to try to use displays designed for the front part of a foldable phone, but they’re yet to strike an agreement.
TIL that display manufacturers are also part of the reason why we aren’t getting small phones and why it’s probably even harder for manufacturers like Fairphone to make them.
I don’t mind not having a removable battery, and a headphone jack is nice but not make or break… but so few phones apparently have expandable storage these days.
This brothers me so much. It’s such an obvious cash grab - manufacturers can force you to buy a more expensive model of the same phone, cloud services can tap your wallet for additional space, and carriers can tap your wallet for a larger data plan.
It’s gross. There’s literally no consumer-friendly reason to strip it.
While I like having the options and agree it’s pretty shitty to remove those features, how do you use up all your storage? I upgraded to 256GB and am no where near filling it.
I’ve seen people argue they need to store a ton of media, but I’d argue you don’t need to keep a backup of everything in your phone. Rotate media out after you watched it or whatever.
I’ve nearly 40 gigabytes of FLACs as well as commissioned art (much smaller in size than my music collection) stored on a 256 gigglebyte card in my phone. While the 128 gigs built into my phone is more than enough, when it’s time to get a new phone all I gotta do is slap it into the new phone and boom, gucci. That convenience, on top of only needing to remove the card to add stuff to it, is why an SD card slot is non negotiable for me.
So you’re telling me if a perfect phone existed but did not have removable storage, you wouldn’t get it?
You can just transfer those things. This doesn’t make any sense to me, I’m sorry.
I would rather have any of the features that are part of the non-removeable storage, which I’m guessing is related to better water/dust resistance and a larger battery or other internals which I would use every day.
In fairness I’m not too picky outside of an SD card slot and 3.5mm jack. I ain’t a power user, so as long as I can chat with my buddies, reply to emails, enjoy my media, and it does all that just fast enough, I’ll take anything with an SD card slot and headphone jack. I’m not the average user lol
Expandable storage is good in theory but terrible in practice due to how poorly android handles it and how slow it is. You can basically install zero apps on expandable storage even on phones that have it, and often taking photos and videos is slower thanks to saving to a slower storage than the internal stuff.
The last 2 phones that I had expandable storage on, I didn’t even bother using it because it was that bad. Previously I lost some pretty important videos due to SD card corruption and failure to save properly.
i don’t use expandable storage for apps, just for media storage. For that its great
I have yet to have a problem with it myself.
I don’t doubt that it might have problems occasionally, but the push to get rid of it seems to mostly stem from companies pushing their online storage plans instead. Which is not something I would ever want to rely on.
It’s not that I want to depend on storage, much like I’m sure people who want smaller phones don’t want exclusively smaller phones, or people who want headphones want it to the exclusion of other connectivity options… they just want an option that’s sadly disappearing.
I want the option of expandable storage, even if it’s not on every phone.
If you really want expandable storage for media you can buy teeny tiny usb sticks that you can plug in when you want to use them. Not perfect but a viable alternative.
Personally I stream everything and I back everything up to the cloud, but more options are always good and I’m 100% for additional storage options.