I’m looking at new Android phones since the battery life on my 5-year-old phone is getting quite dismal and it seems to have a lot of issues running out of RAM lately.
There just don’t seem to be very many phones with two sim slots AND a dedicated sd card slot these days. I need all of them since I have one sim for talking and texting and a separate limitless mobile broadband sim that can’t make phone calls as well as a chunky SD card that I use for photos, video, media, game roms, etc. Unfortunately most lower-to-mid-range phones just have a hybrid slot at best (while high-end phones seem to have eliminated expandable storage completely.)
Basically, I’d have to ditch the internet, having extra storage or the phone’s actual function as a fucking phone. The phones I found that do have the slots I need meanwhile somehow have worse specs than my current phone from 5 years ago 
I guess I could always just carry two phones with me 
If you live in the US you might have luck getting a Pixel 5? It’s not new, but iirc it has all you want and you can easily install LineageOS (with google services even) on it
Remember removable batteries?
Yeah, I can’t even simply slap a new battery into this phone and turn it into a retro handheld or whatever when I’m done with it
Added complexity is a negative to most people. They don’t want it, they want something “That just works ™”. The ideal tech product is the Rabbit AI pin that doesn’t burn a hole in your chest and there’s a liberal version that doesn’t use racial slurs for consumer choice
It’s the worst tech trend ever, and it’s not relegated to classical IT products. I’ll freely admit to not knowing how to fix a car other than change headlight or whatever but how many people don’t even know if their car is front or rear drive, a thing that very much matters for how to handle certain situations? Apps for household appliances that, on the consumer side, do nothing but offload very easily attainable knowledge of “don’t boil wool” into the app?
We’re getting the cyberpunk future without cyberdecks
My father instilled in me the wisdom of “If you own a machine, you should know how to maintain it”. Though that advice is more relevant in the global south than the north.
I remember replacing a carberator with my dad on our car as a kid and those 2 weeks were the most fun I ever had with him.
My phone can hold a browser, a podcast app, three IMs and one game. I got it two months ago and it’s out of space.
I once had a phone that just completely ran out of space due to Android system updates or whatever. Even after I had deleted every app, image and other file I could I was still left with only ~100 mb of space that would quickly fill up with cache files
There are videos on how some LG phones have a cult following because they were solid and had a good DAC.
A local deals website in Australia loves the Motorola G35 because it has an SD card slot, headphone jack, and a non-curved screen. Even then, that’s not the current model as the new Motorolas are moving towards being like ever other phone
Using a Xiaomi 10A, can confirm it has all three slots. I am happy with it after a year of using it but battery might die faster than five years.
It looks like Finnish stores don’t even carry Xiaomis/Redmis anymore. Mine’s a Redmi too, and a fair bit more powerful than yours from the looks of it. Really lucked out with the price I got on this thing
On 21 September 2023, Telia, DNA, and Elisa, Finland’s major mobile carriers, halted the sale of Xiaomi Technology products due to the company’s ongoing business activities in Russia. This decision reflects the company’s commitment to maintaining its operations in Russia despite the Ukraine invasion.
If I thought like one of those companies I would say:
- Making room for a bigger battery, bigger cameras and stuff like a wireless charging coil that reliably gets good reviews,
- Not enough people using them, so “a sacrifice I’m willing to make” to lower costs of production and reducing phone variants,
- Declaring those features outdated and deciding that now is the time to force people to “upgrade” to built-in storage or cloud services,
- Upselling built-in storage and wireless devices, establishing a walled garden and creating a more steady source of revenue,
- Dumb shit like wanting the sides to be as seamless as possible
I find it ironic that AES gets lampooned for its lack of variety in consumer goods, meanwhile corporations are continuously killing off their more niche variants and reducing consumer choice.
sd cards are slow plus they want to upsell you on storage space, especially apple
I will take slow storage over no storage
They also want to sell you a cloud storage subscription so they can hold your photos hostage while they feed them to their AI models.
You can get like a 512gb Xiaomi for 250 bucks that had two sim slots and that’s more than enough storage for anything I could think of. And you get a shitton of phone for that, like at some point you’re just complaining for complainings sake
Unfortunately Xiaomi phones almost entirely don’t work in Australia anymore for technical reasons.
I’ve seen discussions from 10 years ago where people ask what you’d possibly need more than 64 gigs for
yeah except that 512gb is large enough to hold every good episode of the simpsons, every episode of star trek tng and more than 500 hours of lossless music files, and what more could you possibly want on your phone
My tasteful nudes, which take up at least 1tb
But what about my SD cards
Put them wherever you put your older SD cards that have become too small to do anything with
On a more serious note there aren’t even any 512gb phones in my price range currently. I’m seeing almost nothing but 128gb with a couple of 256gb outliers, and even a few 64gb phones for some absolutely bizarre reason. Who would pick one of these things in 2024
Well in that case that sucks. There are those whacky adapters you can get that are supposed to allow you to use a sim card and a micro SD card in a hybrid slot, or you could see if one of your sim cards can’t be used as an esim, although I have no idea how those work
Are E-sims an option in either your phone/internet connections? Some can support 2 at a time I think or you could have 1 physical one and an e-sim
Have you looked into phones with the new virtual sims?
I’ve been thinking of getting a phone with a better camera. I film a lot of short videos for work and I’d like the quality to be better, but I don’t want to carry around a big camera/sound recorder. Also my phone is getting laggy. It’s a OnePlus 7.
Any recommendations?I got a Pixel 8 specifically to run GrapheneOS, and I’ve been impressed with the camera.
The Google Pixel’s camera is really fucking good
