Is there something special about an audio jack that USB-C can’t do? And my past experience with SD cards has been consistently poor; prone to corruption and slow-ass writes.
In addition to what others have mentioned, you also can’t use USBC adapter for the headphones and charge it the same time, without getting another weird, likely flaky, and definitely more bulky adapter.
Slow writes are generally true, I suspect for similar reasons that most usb sticks suck: trade off between price, capacity, longevity, and thermals.
I’ve used a 1TB sd card for years withoutany issues, but now have everything on a NAS instead, so the slot sits unused.
USB-C audio isn’t simple. Does the phone have built in DAC with usb pass through (most dont or its poor quality), or do you need usb DAC? Also, not all usb DACs will work on every device.
Quality SD cards have perfectly fine write performance. They’ll cost two or three times as much as the cheap knockoffs everyone else is getting (which were the reason many phone manufacturers sabotaged features like adoptable storage because they slowed the entire phone down to a crawl), but if you buy from a real store and pay attention to the markings on the card, SD cards work absolutely fine.
I don’t see why you’d need them these days (my 128GB phone currently has about 40GB in use and I don’t think I’ve ever filled up my 64GB Oneplus One either) but if you do want them, SD cards are perfectly fine if you do your research before buying them.
As for headphones: some people like the DACs that phone manufacturers used to use and don’t want to charge Bluetooth headphones. For years phones had unused blank space in the that could’ve been used for a headphone jack, but these days phones are getting larger batteries so I’m not sure if it’s still as easy as that.
Just add back the headphone jack and SD card slot if you want to take on the Pixel
Sounds like you just want a Sony phone?
Is there something special about an audio jack that USB-C can’t do? And my past experience with SD cards has been consistently poor; prone to corruption and slow-ass writes.
You can use your headphones without carrying around another adapter.
Get better SD cards?
In addition to what others have mentioned, you also can’t use USBC adapter for the headphones and charge it the same time, without getting another weird, likely flaky, and definitely more bulky adapter.
Slow writes are generally true, I suspect for similar reasons that most usb sticks suck: trade off between price, capacity, longevity, and thermals. I’ve used a 1TB sd card for years withoutany issues, but now have everything on a NAS instead, so the slot sits unused.
USB-C audio isn’t simple. Does the phone have built in DAC with usb pass through (most dont or its poor quality), or do you need usb DAC? Also, not all usb DACs will work on every device.
Quality SD cards have perfectly fine write performance. They’ll cost two or three times as much as the cheap knockoffs everyone else is getting (which were the reason many phone manufacturers sabotaged features like adoptable storage because they slowed the entire phone down to a crawl), but if you buy from a real store and pay attention to the markings on the card, SD cards work absolutely fine.
I don’t see why you’d need them these days (my 128GB phone currently has about 40GB in use and I don’t think I’ve ever filled up my 64GB Oneplus One either) but if you do want them, SD cards are perfectly fine if you do your research before buying them.
As for headphones: some people like the DACs that phone manufacturers used to use and don’t want to charge Bluetooth headphones. For years phones had unused blank space in the that could’ve been used for a headphone jack, but these days phones are getting larger batteries so I’m not sure if it’s still as easy as that.