• Ganbat@lemmyonline.com
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    10 months ago

    While I agree with you in general…

    So people who claim it’s an outdated technology can try and explain why it’s making a return on $2K laptops, but not mobile devices other than for greed.

    Quality. A phone is gonna see a lot more shock than the average laptop, so a card slot has to be very robust to prevent data loss. Across two LG, three Moto and one Blu, I’ve dealt with SD corruption on every one of them. The worst case was one of the Motos. It would corrupt the SD at the drop of a pin. The shock of dropping the phone less than a foot onto my bed was enough. The best one was my first Android phone, the LG Stylo, which had a removable battery with the SD card under that. It only corrupted the card a few times the whole time I had it, though do keep in mind that we’re talking about how often total data loss is acceptable. It took me years to realize that I was paying more in my time and lost data than the cost of just getting a phone with more storage.

    • Melonpoly@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      How? I’ve never heard of or experienced sd cards corrupting that often if at all in the years I’ve used them. I’m genuinely curious how often and how hard you drop your phones (aside from the motos)…