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I also find this irritating, and it makes sense it's challenging to have the a storage card slot be properly water resistant.

cubefox 2y ago
It's not challenging, phones had them for years. It's just an additional rubber ring. The new HTC phone actually has it again.
- metadat 2y ago
  Phones you could take for a dunk? Actually, you're right. My old Samsung s10e has a microSD card slot beside the SIM card. It was nicer. What's wrong with manufacturers? How could Apple, Samsung, Motorola, and Google all drop the ball and be so consumer-unfriendly? Between this and eSIMs, it's almost like they want us to be at their mercy.
  - idle_zealot 2y ago
    The market does not optimize for high ideals like consumer-friendliness.
  - Dylan16807 2y ago
    Apple doesn't want customization or third party parts. Google hated storage space from day 1 with Pixels. Motorola I haven't looked at in a while, they were a mess last time I did. Samsung realized they could remove microSD from their flagships and charge more to anyone that didn't go down a tier. And most of those phones still have SIM slots. Putting microSD inside the same slot as the SIM is a solved problem.
    - nfriedly 2y ago
      I'm on a Moto g100, which is a mid-range phone from a few years back. It has expandable storage and a headphone jack, two day battery life, 8GB RAM, and a good-enough-for-me Snapdragon 870 CPU. They also make it easy to unlock the bootloader, so I've been running LineageOS since shortly after buying it. I intended for this phone to be a stopgap until I got another flagship, but I like it so much that I'v just stick with it for the last couple of years. The only complaints I have are that it's kind of big, and it's not at all waterproof. (Although being able to get a replacement for $1-200 somewhat negates the last issue.) I was on a Pixel before this, and I kept running out of storage and also got screwed by Google locking the bootloader when I sent it in for a repair of a broken USB-C port.
  - talldayo 2y ago
    I still use my S10e. If I can figure out a way to unlock the bootloader I intend to put LineageOS on it and keep it until the battery wears out - and even then it looks like iFixit says I can replace the battery. Wasn't very fond of the S7 I had before it, but loved my HTC One way back in the day. The best we can do is advocate for a world where people can continue maintaining the software and hardware of the devices we love. I don't know how the industry will react to slowing upgrades, but nothing I'm seeing these days tempts me very much.
WithinReason 2y ago
Not any more than a SIM card slot, and phones have those.

cubefox 2y ago

It's not challenging, phones had them for years. It's just an additional rubber ring. The new HTC phone actually has it again.

metadat 2y ago
Phones you could take for a dunk? Actually, you're right. My old Samsung s10e has a microSD card slot beside the SIM card. It was nicer. What's wrong with manufacturers? How could Apple, Samsung, Motorola, and Google all drop the ball and be so consumer-unfriendly? Between this and eSIMs, it's almost like they want us to be at their mercy.
- idle_zealot 2y ago
  The market does not optimize for high ideals like consumer-friendliness.
- Dylan16807 2y ago
  Apple doesn't want customization or third party parts. Google hated storage space from day 1 with Pixels. Motorola I haven't looked at in a while, they were a mess last time I did. Samsung realized they could remove microSD from their flagships and charge more to anyone that didn't go down a tier. And most of those phones still have SIM slots. Putting microSD inside the same slot as the SIM is a solved problem.
  - nfriedly 2y ago
    I'm on a Moto g100, which is a mid-range phone from a few years back. It has expandable storage and a headphone jack, two day battery life, 8GB RAM, and a good-enough-for-me Snapdragon 870 CPU. They also make it easy to unlock the bootloader, so I've been running LineageOS since shortly after buying it. I intended for this phone to be a stopgap until I got another flagship, but I like it so much that I'v just stick with it for the last couple of years. The only complaints I have are that it's kind of big, and it's not at all waterproof. (Although being able to get a replacement for $1-200 somewhat negates the last issue.) I was on a Pixel before this, and I kept running out of storage and also got screwed by Google locking the bootloader when I sent it in for a repair of a broken USB-C port.
- talldayo 2y ago
  I still use my S10e. If I can figure out a way to unlock the bootloader I intend to put LineageOS on it and keep it until the battery wears out - and even then it looks like iFixit says I can replace the battery. Wasn't very fond of the S7 I had before it, but loved my HTC One way back in the day. The best we can do is advocate for a world where people can continue maintaining the software and hardware of the devices we love. I don't know how the industry will react to slowing upgrades, but nothing I'm seeing these days tempts me very much.

WithinReason 2y ago

Not any more than a SIM card slot, and phones have those.