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I was thinking about upgrading my phone because its crappy and old and blah blah. But a lot of the newer phones don't have storage on board. My thought would be to buy a USB-c external microSD card and reader for a new phone. Yay or nay on this being a good idea. I'm not always around fast enough data to upload to the cloud efficiently.

I was thinking about upgrading my phone because its crappy and old and blah blah. But a lot of the newer phones don't have storage on board. My thought would be to buy a USB-c external microSD card and reader for a new phone. Yay or nay on this being a good idea. I'm not always around fast enough data to upload to the cloud efficiently.

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USBC to NVME M.2 adapters compatible with mobile phones are cheap af.

You can also use a battery powered pocket/portable SSD NAS to store your files, videos, images...

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I'll look into that thank you. I'm looking at a Google pixel 6 pro. Refurbished on Amazon for just under 300 bucks. They don't have any SD ports on the 'flagship' ones.

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Can't answer to the external storage question, but I've been looking at the Motorola Moto G. It appears to have an onboard SD slot, 3.5mm jack, and an FM radio.

If I were to buy a new phone, I'd much rather get more features than less.

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I have a Moto G Power (from a few years ago) and it's stood up to some abuse. I slammed it once (fucking Google maps kept switching to walking even though I was in a car) and actually bent the frame (and screen), no cracks. There is a chip on the side of the glass front, but no cracks across. It's been dropped a lot (basic bumper case). Headphone jack is nice. Motorola doesn't load them down with lots of crapware.

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Love my Moto G. My current is my third. Rooted, custom ROM, battery last for days, pretty good camera, reasonable price. -

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Well I was thinking about getting the 2023 version of the g power. I have the 2020 version and it's kind of a hunk of shit but maybe the 23 is way better?

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I have the 2020 and it's pretty decent. I remember people saying the later years worsened it. What's wrong with your 2020?

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It's just really slow now. The camera is an absolute piece of shit and to be honest it's actually kind of big.

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I don't see why you couldn't. I've routinely use an otg cable with a USB flash drive to move files between my android phone and Mac OS. Properly formatted I don't see why it wouldn't see your SD card as removable USB storage.

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Why do you need the sd? For storage space or to store things off of your phone?

Most phones now days come with at least 128GB of built-in storage. If you want to store stuff outside of your phone you could just use an external drive like AOU mentioned.

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Well that's a good point. I haven't seen their post yet so I don't know what it said. But I could buy a USB-C solid state drive and dump info over that way

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If you are just planning on doing archives via usb-c ssd or other media fixed usb hub storage, then it will work.

You will most likely break the connector if you leave it in there or lose the usb it if you don't.

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No I would just move over photos/video and whatnot as I filled up the memory.

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They make USB flash drives with a USB-C plug. That'd be simplest. Naturally back that up with a PC. I don't think you'd ever want to have only one copy of the data, be it a flash drive, USB-C SSD or HDD, cloud, etc.

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I know I saw a couple like that. But the thing is is I get nervous about those all in one things cuz they always break. Especially the mobile ones. I do have a laptop but the only extra memory it has is really an SD card that's inserted in the side. I was thinking about one of those small SSD drives with an external slip in USBC holder. Aou told me about the holder.

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Yeah, phones pretty much can use any USB peripheral. If the power draw is too much you can just hook up a powered USB hub to the phone.

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Good to know. More importantly I'm trying to figure out what phone to go with. Pixel 6 pro looks like it's affordable at this point. I would like to find it in 256. And if that's no good I might just bow down and get the latest version of the g power I don't know I used to have a Samsung years ago but those things I kind of clunky shit although they take fantastic pictures.

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I won't own a phone that doesn't have SD card compatibility.

The best phone I ever owned was a rooted Note 4. It had more capabilities then brand new phones have today. The only reason I'm not still using it is because (((they))) made old phones incompatible with the new networks.

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Yup. They're zapping all the old stuff. Funny how cheer for electric cars and cry over climate change. But at the same time they let companies brick phones so you have to buy a new one causing all that extra waste.

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Popping in a 512GB then dumping at home not a viable option?

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No I live in a camper van. And currently I'm 2300 mi away from home base.

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I hear ya. I used to leave an android with a 512GB in it at the gym in a locker and download files and torrents off their Wi-Fi then dump files onto my big hard drives back when I had nearly non-existent internet at home.

I’m guessing this is not what you need.

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No I barely watch TV anymore or videos or anything. It's mostly just for pictures and videos I make. Sometimes I'll download music off of YouTube for when I sleep. I know that's kind of counterintuitive.

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I used to leave an android with a 512GB in it at the gym in a locker and download files and torrents off their Wi-Fi then dump files onto my big hard drives back when I had nearly non-existent internet at home.

That's so awesome. We got the letter of warning recently for downloading torrents so I'm looking for alternatives.