What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?
What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?
For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up
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Memory card slots.
I can tolerate a missing headphone jack, a non replaceable battery, but a missing memory card slot is just too much.
At the moment, the only non Chinese brand of phones that includes this slot are Samsung I think. And even then, certain models also include it.
A few Motorola and Sony phones as well as the Fairphone still have them as well.
Motorola is Chinese they are owned by Lenovo
One big technical reason for this was actually the file system. Back when phones came with various types of sd-card support, they only had a few gigs of storage. fat32 was enough and was supported everywhere. But fat32 had some file system limitations and when sd-card sizes grew over 4gb there were comparability issues since windows was limited to fat32 and ntfs. I can imagine the support hell when a user couldn’t mount the sd card containing photos on his or her computer.
The solution to that was ExFAT, which is another patented MS system, so requires a license fee (I think) but otherwise is compatible with anything (because they all had to pay the fee...) But specifically compatible with Windows out of the box.
I beliexe exFAT has been made free. It's the official filesystem of SDXC cards, and many of them come pre-formatted.