BRING BACK THE MICROSD SLOTS!!!!!

[yoptvoyayb]

I know many ppl think I'm being old-fashioned about this, but I have a 400GB MicroSD card, of which I've only used maybe 75-80GB so far. My S20 FE has been having lag/other performance issues lately, and its probably due to the lack of it being eligible for a non-Security UI Update/Upgrade. Now I looked up and saw that the A56 doesn't have expandable storage. I figured the A56 might be a bit better than my S20 FE, but I'm not getting it if it doesn't have expandable storage. I only have Google One so that I don't have to delete my emails (although I probably should lol) and don't want to have to use it as a primary method of storing photos/videos/possible audio/music. I swear that the ditching of expandable storage is a way of forced herding of ppl to Cloud ☁️ Storage as primary, and is consumers must fight this. The Identity of flagship Samsung phones 📱 were widgets, expandable memory, and a more flexible and user-friendly experience than on an IPHONE (for example, idk how to clear an app's Cache nor to force stop an app on an IPhone). One of the key features to that flexibility/friendliness was the MicroSD card, even if u needed a USB device to xfer from a smaller to larger when u needed the extra space. Also, there's not much room for extensive media storage after u have enough apps on your phone, and it wouldn't be enough unless u have a 512GB capacity or higher. It's simpler to just put the MicroSD slots back into all the phones. 

[realaud]

Ditto.  

[realaud]

We are not talking about a Google Pixel here, we are talking about Samsung phones. There is absolutely no need for an SD card slot in today's phones, that's why they are being eliminated manufacturer by manufacturer. 

If you think I search you out to nitpick your comments, you are absolutely wrong.  I pay little attention to the names of users whose comments I respond to.  I respond to those comments that need a response that will make them realize what reality is.

[Ktackett1]

No it's just every time I leave a comment somewhere it just so happens to be you that shows up with a nay-saying attitude about it.

Like I said in my first comment it's people like you as to why companies do this to us and get away with it because people like you don't fight back. Just because you don't want or need an SD card doesn't mean other people don't, or any other feature that they've taken away in the past for that matter. Just because you can buy a smartwatch and have remote control functionality on that doesn't mean it was a good idea to remove the Bluetooth from the s-pens. And the Google pixel was just one example, I'm not a dumb***... Obviously we are in a Samsung oriented forum so normally we wouldn't be talking about other phones...

[realaud]

There is absolutely no need to fight back when one recognizes progress.  That you, and others like you, won't face that reality just serves to make your own technological lives difficult. I'd like to go back to rotary phones where you could leave the house and not know you missed a call until the person called you back.  The constant interruptions  of one notification or the other, psychologically impels one to act on them.

[Ktackett1]

Well that's a dumb argument cuz all you have to do is just not have a smartphone. That's not the same as being used to having certain features and then a new phone comes out and they be taken away or they take them away with software updates...

[realaud]

Well, you can keep your old phones with the SD cards and no updates that you don't like and be happy as a clam.  But, if you want new technology, you have to give up your attachment to old features.  Are they missed by some? Of course, but alternatives exist to fill the void, hence, flash drives, eSIMS (which are better for the planet because there is no ewaste when they are produced or discarded), larger hard drives (which people have been begging for for ages, making the need for the SD card irrelevant)

[Ktackett1]

I don't see how being able to keep your own private storage is more difficult than being forced to use a cloud service that is not private. They can tell you it's private all they want to but at any given moment they can take it away from you and yes they can read what's in there. It's more easily hacked as well or if the server goes down you don't get to connect to it and retrieve your own stuff. Just like the game industry with these "licenses". You no longer own what you pay for. Are you really okay with that? Don't even get me started on no more custom roms because Google will no longer give out their source code for AOSP...

[realaud]

You can keep your own private storage.  What's preventing you?  That's what flash drives, external drives and computers are for.  Your argument is fallacious.

[Ktackett1]

Take away the ability to have it built into your phone and require external devices and connections? That sounds like a step backwards to me

[realaud]

Nope, actually a step forward in security.  If you have control of your own data and your own backup option, if your phone fails, gets lost or stolen, you still have your stuff.  And, with plenty of internal storage, you shouldn't have to worry about running out of space and can use those external devices (since you abhor cloud storage), as your backup.  You can't run programs off an SD card anyway, they are strictly storage media and ,technically, they are also an external device, since they can be removed.