the microSD in your phone can make a difference

[Pilgrim]

Yes, everything is going to the cloud. People are concerned with losing connections, but they're getting more and more consistent every day.

In the Western US there are a lot of places with no connectivity. On my in-laws' farm there isn't even cell service. SD card, thank you.

 

[elgecko]

In the Western US there are a lot of places with no connectivity. On my in-laws' farm there isn't even cell service. SD card, thank you.

Yup. Even in the city limits of Los Angeles, all it takes is being in a canyon.

 

[fingerguy]

I also find those numbers surprising! In the US, it's more like 40%.

About Apple's 40% Smartphone Market Share

Samsung, apparently the largest manufacturer of smartphones, did away with SD slots then brought them back but they're having a whole different problem right now.

Too true. It's still new that they are holding off sales but curious if this will change those numbers drastically in a few days or weeks.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Not long ago I was lamenting about my extremely slow phone.
I've since upgraded, but Feces Book was still deadly slow on my phone.

I keep my eye on the Daily/Weekly Deals, MF's stupid deal, GC's weekly, & Best Buy's daily deal.
Best Buy had a pretty decent deal on 64Gb micoSD cards, and I thought it would be a good way to start toting my own music around for in the car or even to play along to in the park.

Yeah, I'm a regular Bohemian now that I have an acoustic guitar.

When I first put my old 8Gb card in the new phone it told me that chip was slow, and it wasn't kidding.
As soon as I changed to the faster 64Gb chip, I re-downloaded all my applications & FB is now working great, like it should.

So, I might have even avoided upgrading my phone earlier if I had just gotten a faster microSD card for it. DOH!

Upside: I can now stream video & audio to my TV from my phone & I'm doing it right now.
My old phone couldn't do that, neither wirelessly nor wired. The MHL cable I bought wouldn't fit in the slot.

Same experience, except the SD card I first bought claimed to be high speed but was not. I found another use for it.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

How could an SD card slow down the phone? Unless it's a shoddy card and it's slow when you're accessing its content....

The latest versions of Android give you the option if combining internal storage with the SD card into a single virtual chunk if storage (sounds a bit like LVM but I haven't looked at how they do it on Android). It helps to avoid the out of storage warnings but if an application is living all or partly on a slow SD card then the app can be slow as parts of its functionality or data are loaded from the storage on the card.

 

[DWBass]

What phone do you have that will allow Facebook to load on the SD card? Every phone I've had will not allow it.

 

[Pilgrim]

I have the new Motorola Droid Turbo 2 with the plastic (non-breakable) screen. I'm liking it and its battery capacity very well.

 

[fingerguy]

What phone do you have that will allow Facebook to load on the SD card? Every phone I've had will not allow it.

Other than free up space and lets be honest the install of FB doesn't take up that much space why would you want to?

 

[DWBass]

Other than free up space and lets be honest the install of FB doesn't take up that much space why would you want to?

Because my POS phone only has 4GB internal memory and I have no space left to upgrade to the current version. I plan to upgrade to a Motorola unlocked phone as soon as I find a job. Currently unemployed. My last job issued me a Samsung Note 3 w/32gb mem. and I loved that damn phone but had to turn it in.

 

[DWBass]

Thread resurrection............I ended up buying an unlocked Motorola Moto G4. I bought a sim card from Tracphone. Since I don't talk or text much and use very little data.....my plan is 500min, 1000texts and 500mb data. All for $25 every 60 days. If I need more, I can go 750min, 1000texts and 1gb data for $35 every 60 days. When I had my job phone (Note 3), I barely used 200min and never cracked 100texts and close to zero data on a monthly basis.

 

[elgecko]

Thread resurrection............I ended up buying an unlocked Motorola Moto E. I bought a sim card from Tracphone. Since I don't talk or text much and use very little data.....my plan is 500min, 1000texts and 500mb data. All for $25 every 60 days. If I need more, I can go 750min, 1000texts and 1gb data for $35 every 60 days. When I had my job phone (Note 3), I barely used 200min and never cracked 100texts and close to zero data on a monthly basis.

With Google Fi, you'd get unlimited talk and text and 500MB for the same money. If you only used 200MB of data, your bill would be $22. They only charge you for the data you use at $10/GB.

 

[socialleper]

I have one in my phone. I keep my photos and FLACs of my CDs on there. I don't like streaming or wasting my data on stuff like music.

 

[PortlandBass77]

Enjoy your microSD card slot while you can. They're unfortunately being phased out by manufacturers.

Actually, most of the flagships devices for 2016 have microSD slots. The only ones I can think off at that top of my head that don't are the Google Pixel and the Iphone 7...

And even better, Samsung is developing the supposedly faster and more efficient heir apparent to the microSD standard called Invalid Link Removed. Samsung already uses the UFS standard as internal storage for their flagship phones (S6 / S7 / S7 edge) and (I at least) hope they release a phone with a UFS card slot in the future.

 

[pcake]

Yup. Even in the city limits of Los Angeles, all it takes is being in a canyon.

it's not just canyons - my son lives in a part of culver city with poor to extremely poor connectivity for anyone on sprint or verizon.

 

[DWBass]

With Google Fi, you'd get unlimited talk and text and 500MB for the same money. If you only used 200MB of data, your bill would be $22. They only charge you for the data you use at $10/GB.

My plan is for 60 days. Not monthly. Google Fi looks good though.

 

[Petebass]

I'm always amazed at how may of us use our phones as our dedicated music player. As musicians you'd think more of us would go for a dedicated, no compromise device for music. My COWON leaves smartphones for dead in every department.

 

[fingerguy]

I'm always amazed at how may of us use our phones as our dedicated music player. As musicians you'd think more of us would go for a dedicated, no compromise device for music. My COWON leaves smartphones for dead in every department.

Why? When I can have over a 100 albums in my pocket why anything else? Besides while there are other MP3's out there, Apple truly is the dominant choice for music.

 

[Gorn]

Apple phones do music well and my new Samsung phone is just as good. What compromise? The ability to play any of my thousands of songs at any moment is a bonus of the 5 inch super computer I keep in my pocket. I see nothing that would be gained by having a music player that did nothing but play music.

 

[Fleebag]

I have one in my phone. I keep my photos and FLACs of my CDs on there. I don't like streaming or wasting my data on stuff like music.

Just a tip, loading flac files on your phone (imo) is a waste of space, the hardware in your phone isn't good enough to let you hear the difference (unless your going out to a dac/amp). I've found aac @ 256kbps, or mp3 @320 more than high enough quality, especially if your using lower end earphones. You'll get about 3 times more music into the same amount of space.

 

[fingerguy]

Just a tip, loading flac files on your phone (imo) is a waste of space, the hardware in your phone isn't good enough to let you hear the difference (unless your going out to a dac/amp). I've found aac @ 256kbps, or mp3 @320 more than high enough quality, especially if your using lower end earphones. You'll get about 3 times more music into the same amount of space.

OMG here we go again with the quality argument. If you are listening to your music does it really matter that slight difference? Seriously?