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      The market will regulate itself, the consumer decides with his/her/* money, feel free to start your own company producing it (with your own money) \s

      Sorry for that.

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        I know this is sarcasm, but I still have to also point out that companies literally conspire with each other to undermine the consumer’s ability to choose. Remember when Apple removed the headphone jack and Android vendors mocked their decision for all of one year before immediately following suit? That’s 100% intentional and planned from the start. They know we want to vote with our money, which is why they do everything they can to make sure we don’t have that choice.

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          That has nothing to do with a conspiracy, it’s just cheaper. If they can get away with it, they’ll do it.

          Reality is, most people give relatively thought to their purchases. They just buy “the new iPhone” or pick an Android that seems reasonable to them. And even those who do ostensibly care, often enough only care about specifications. More cores, more nits, more camera.

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          I don’t really see it as a conspiracy. What seems to happen is Apple does something like remove the headphone jack. Apple users essentially have to accept it as they are locked in and don’t have any choice in the matter. Plus you have the fanboys that have an amazing ability to rationalize anything Apple does. Everyone else sees that Apple got away with something, and they follow suit.

          Losing the SD slot would still be annoying but not as big of a deal with everyone wasn’t also copying Apple’s model of massively overcharging for storage upgrades.

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    Not that I think it was a good reason for ditching them whatsoever, but one of the main reasons given has a tiny bit of merit:

    Allegedly, a lot of users often cheaped out on SD cards and then used them as adopted system storage where they moved all their apps to. This had the effect of completely tanking phone performance and then they would often get corrupted after a bit of use taking user data with them. This then generated a load of negative reputation about the devices being slow and unreliable, when the problem was the choice of SD card, and generated a load of wasted money in supporting these users when that happened (think unnecessary RMAs, etc).

    Personally I think they should just have restricted it to A1+ SD cards, and sucked up the people complaining about their bargain bin Scrandrisk SD not working. But I guess they saw an opportunity to have their cake and eat it by just removing it and charging a premium for larger storage skus.

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      Question is rather: why does Android not allow any distinction between Internal and external/removable?

      My downloaded media files belong on the SD card, but APKs, sqlite DBs and temp files don’t belong there. But de facto, it’s just used as an extension for internal storage. That’s just stupid.

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          Sometime around android 9 they removed a bunch of sd card related features to make you have to do the weird combine with internal storage thing

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            I recently copied all my files from my SD-Card (“formatted as Internal Storage”) to a safe location, then copied those files to the “Internal storage” part of the rom that opens up after the SD-Card was gone. It worked. on Android 10. Maybe that change was later. Android storage looks weird from the outside anyway. It was as if only the publically visible files Apps want you to see got on the SD-Card, and then each app has some hidden folder (that apps like termux or apps with custom-built file pickers sometimes kind of let you half-guess the structure of (my head: no details) and) that appeared to have been on the built-in rom all along. That copy operation now lets me remove my SD Card w/o moving all my Images and less than half of my apps files. </irrelevant-context>

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        That very much isn’t the case beyond like a decade+ ago. For the last decade its been not possible, or extra work to install apks on sd card. The choice is there, but it’s far from default.

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      There is a UFS-II specification and even a PCIe version specifically for micro SD cards. It was all planned out, and it would have been trivial to tell consumers: “Yo need card with more contacts as shown in picture”. But no, the biggest manufacturer of flash storage is samsung, and they decided they’d rather sell higher storage capacity phones as a premium. Easy to do when you’re the second biggest manufacturer of of phones and apple already paved the way.

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      I literally never heard or read about a user say that when using an sd card. They just took it out to charge more for more storage.

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        It’s not the users saying it, it’s the OEMs. Back when this was a new discussion, I at least remember Google saying this as justification for why it stopped including them in their devices after the nexus 4

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            I don’t think it’s a lie, it’s objectively true that shit SD cards would have that effect on performance if used as adopted storage. But I do agree with you that it was a convenient excuse, as I wrote at the end of my original comment.

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              Yeah but how many people you kbow actually formatted their sd card to install apps on it? Everyone I know (and myself) use it only for media.

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    HTC released a phone this year that had expandable storage AND a headphone jack

    AND it came with a charger in the box.

    I gonna have to wait and see if they actually support this phone but if they do and continue to release phones like this (and ditch the curved glass screen) I would be totally down to switch.

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      What phone is this? I thought they released one but no jack. I’d be interested if it has one and an unlockable bootloader.

      Nevermind. Just saw your post under.

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        Since the thread has grown large and I had trouble finding the comment I’ll just link it here (sorry the link is instance specific, it seems you can’t make relative ones)

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        Yes, the joke in the meme is that Sony is the only “flagship” company that still has those features.

        (Though calling them a flagship company might be a little generous)

        As for HTC, it’s possible that another company bought the rights to the name, i’m not sure. They were making VR headsets for a while, so it’s possible they just backed out of the phone market and did something else.

        Either way, the phone looks good, with some minor tweaks and some proper long term support it could be a serious competitor

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      My fp4 has been very disappointing so far tbh, after a year or so of using it it’s slow unresponsive and the mic doesn’t work

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        It’s not supposed to do that. My FP3 got unresponsive after a while as well. The trick was to open it up and gently tighten all screws.

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            Because in IT, the fix is always to power cycle. If that doesn’t work, you take it apart and put it back together and then magic happens.

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              I’ve taken the battery out a number of times and it’s not changed anything, I might try a full disassembly at some point anyway just for the fun of it though

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          I’ll give it a go I can’t see how that would help but maybe it’s a loose contact to the touchscreen or something

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        I have experienced that the microphone is in a weird spot on the left border of the phone, frequently where my fingers are placed when calling. So maybe check if you’re covering it too!

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          You can’t change the CPU or memory afaik.

          I could replace the mic but if it’s breaking every year I’d be better off just buying a new second hand phone of better quality every few years

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        I have no issues like that. Maybe your microphone is damaged. What has been bugging me is the top speaker sounds terrible.

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          It may well be, it’s possible I got a drop of water in it after washing my hands or something which might’ve done it but I’d be pretty disappointed if that’s enough to break it

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        for this reason I waited for the Fairphone 5 which is responsive, has an oled display and the components Work without issue. have had it for a year and am looking forward to still using it in 6 years from now

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        Seriously, I’d also recommend to unscrew the screen and screw it back together. For me it made wonders. And if this also doesn’t bring you anything, you should text support - in the end you have a warranty for a reason, right

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          It’s a fp4 so older and I got it second hand so unsure if the warranty still applies

          Will definitely try with the screws though

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            fairphone Support is really helpful. try it even without warranty if the screw thing doesnt work

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      The few advantages you mean, wouldn’t mind the FP if they’d use a processor that wasn’t years old and at least performed better than the Tensor G2 (A processor highly regarded as absolute crap)

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        The fp4 has an ok cpu with a Snapdragon 750, and fp5 is pretty good, has a QCM6490.

        Not the best value for money though considering the price of similar spec phones 😅 (except that will be worth it if you end up needing to replace the screen)

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    Last with a headphone jack on the flagship while still allowing bootloader unlocking too. This is why I picked one up last year.

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      Was going to get a Sony. Then I saw their update roadmap… 2 years of major updates and another one for security patches, that was it. Noped out because of that. I’d like a headphone jack and an sd card slot, but I’d like even more to keep such an expensive device for more than three years.

      Also, their phones are too big, but that’s an issue for every single manufacturer.

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        That is a real concern & it seems they are moving to 4 years of updates as well as not rolling out a new phone every year, but given that LineageOS supports the phones, even if I am not getting firmeware updates, I am willing to take that risk since I get more IO.

        The Xperia 5 is a skinny 6.1" & many consider it to be a small phone option in 2024.

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          In the end, I got an S23 which receives (presumably) four years of major revision support plus another two years of security patches, which is still much more than Sony is willing to promise.

          I had an Xperia Z, which I was supposed to be able to patch with custom roms. Too bad that while that generally worked, Sony locked the camera to its own software which then fell back to a much inferior mode, meaning you had to decide between updates or shitty pictures, which was a deal breaker for me and had me update to an S10e back then.

          The Xperia 5 is a skinny 6.1" & many consider it to be a small phone option in 2024.

          I know. It’s still too big. I was this close to switching to apple just for their iPhone mini range, but that got discontinued as well. My S23 is something like 6 or 6.1 as well. It’s only usable because Samsung has a better one handed mode than default android or Apple.

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            Yep. Camera situation is shit. I often carry a mirrorless so I can get a nice photo if I need it, but it means a general photo by me is shit since you need that proprietary software. And yet still since I use the headphone jack more than anything, it is a requirement—along with an unGoogled experience for privacy. If you want a jack + unlockable bootloader with flagship specs, Xperia is the only line left.

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      It’s not. Maybe I worded it poorly. I mean that Sony is the last smartphone manufacturer where the high end line got MicroSD slots. The others removed them. (Google doesn’t count, they never got one)

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            The S5 was IP67 with a removable battery and an SD slot (so don’t listen when people say they removed batteries for the waterproofing).

            The S6 had no waterproofing, no removable battery and no SD slot.

            The S7 brought back the SD slot and had IP68 water resistance but they never returned the removable battery.

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    I have a recent Xiaomi that supports 2 sim + storage and a 3.5mm jack. I’m on Redmi Note 12 (don’t recommend since memory management is atrocious)

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        HTC U24 Pro

        Only issue I have is the curved glass screen. My butterfingers would not get along. That and I want to see how long their software support lasts since I’ve heard it was spotty in the past.

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          I also wonder what the OS is like. I need things like OxygenOS from OnePlus or something close to stock android.

          All the bullshit UI from Samsung or Huawei or whatever is just atrocious. Terrible UI, no longtime support. Extra account shoehorned in.

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          Seems like a high and phone with SD. So Bad Research from me. Sorry.

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      I guess you could edit it to have them crawling out of the grave? Though a bit of a stretch to call that phone high end.

      I also think Mordechai and Rigby should be HTC abd Google, given they sold (most) of their phone team to Google to help with the Pixel phones (and to highlight that Google also removed SD slots… RIP Nexus)

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    Been using syncthing with a script on my PC to keep copying stuff on another non synced location in the same filesystem with deduplication enabled (zfs). Technical solution, sadly, not many people are doing it… Btw i use… Xdd

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      Syncthing is really nice, I am also using it to Sync PC, Laptop, Phone and NAS.