Quote from: Anonym on March 22, 2021, 19:03:48
You should learn about ADB and how to flash your phone like a developer. At most, you only need the USB cable. Not even that, if you do it properly through recovery.
Furthermore, manufacturers already heard about your needs and make cheaper phones for your use-case. Otherwise, the USB-C flash drive already does all that. Recording 4K video or making multi-shot HDR photography is quite demanding on the storage, and there are noticeable slowdowns when using the SD card "just for data". There is no cabal here, you either get used to the reality or save even more money by getting the cheaper phone -- it truly is win-win for you, don't know what you are complaining about.
I feel like you didn't even read my reply. I'm familiar with ADB and use it. That has nothing to do with keeping tens of GB of data (docs, music, videos, pictures, etc) on the phone, which you then have to deal with when flashing. And as I said, I don't want a flash drive sticking out of my phone, especially when I can just have a card
inside the phone that serves the same purpose. I don't record in 4K or do multi-shot anything, much less HDR, but if I did either, and even when I'm recording in 1080p or anything else that the card can't keep up with, I just do that to internal storage and copy it to the card after. It's not complicated. And by the way, I've tested it, and even a somewhat older and slower card by today's standards (bought roughly 2016) is able to perform similarly to the internal storage for multi-shot up to around 20 or 30 shots. And no, there is no slowdown when using an SD card for storage. If you're not running stuff off of it, then it can't possibly slow things down. Sure, it takes an extra half-second or so to start playback of music or videos, and it takes a little longer to load image thumbnails, but it doesn't slow down the normal, day-to-day use of the phone
at all, and people need to stop spreading that misinformation. If you believe that, and that it somehow bottlenecks the CPU, you must also believe that having platter drives in my computer slows it down and there's no point in running anything more than a Celeron because my high-end CPU is bottlenecked by my user data being on a HDD, despite the fact the OS and apps are running off an NVMe drive.
And just because
some cheaper phones have card slots, doesn't mean I should have to deal with a crap phone just for that, not to mention many of them don't meet other requirements I have for a phone. OnePlus is the one with the "Never Settle" slogan, so all I'm saying is why are they asking us to settle then? I'm not sure why you're getting so offended by my desiring a card slot. Clearly, you don't want one, but if it was there, nobody would force you to use it. You do realize that, right? They could add it and you could just keep using your flash drives and cables, whereas I could just put a $25 card in and have an extra 128 or 256GB of storage for all my files.
That's a win-win.