My Fold2 is dual Sim.One of the Sim is eSim.So the slot for the Second Sim is vacant.Can I insert a MicroSd in this vacant sim slot?And will the phone read this MicroSd?
I don't see how. It lacks the hardware support for a SD card. Best you can do is a OTG flashstick.
Somehow they think everyone wants dual sims. I blew off all the new Samsung flagships in recent years because of this. Oddly many of their midrange phones do support expandable storage.
As a result of this and other shortcomings I bought another new N10+ last year, twins. No regrets.
Maybe Samsung has a death wish. Users don't want expandable storage according to big sister Samsung. Samsung also claims there's not enough room for the card slot; more bs lies. They forgot who's the customer and what the customer wants. They abandoned their loyal power users.
Even as their sale numbers stagnate they take away features from the flagships, even forgot their name, Note.
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Hello,
as I recently saw an offer on Ebay (without any mention of the brand), while Sandisk's homepage does not even mention a word (and also very little mention trying Google) I wrote a mail to Sandisk asking them about the expected availabiliy of this item.
That's what I received as a reply:
Hello,
Thank you for contacting SanDisk Technical Support.
[...]
The MicroSD 2GB is a newer product and you will find it hard to source one, but it is currectly out in the market.
Should you need to speak to a live representative please contact SanDisk Technical Support at one of the listed contact numbers.
Best Regards,
Moira N.
SanDisk Technical Support
USA +1 (866) 726 3475
So this is the confirmation that this article is already available though a bit hard to get hold of.
I asked one of my local dealers, who is specialized on Storage Cards and he already accepts pre-orders with an expected availability "in 3 weeks". Price is approximately "double as the current price for a 1GB MicroSD".
Please note: I am not speaking of MiniSD, but MicroSD, the storage cards e.g. needed for a HTC TyTN or HTC Meteor.
They are as small as the nail of my small finger and look extremely fragile.
BTW: Item Code of this product is SDSDQ-2048-E10M (for the Sandisk product) in case anyone tries to ask his local dealer for it.
You can get 2gig Sandisks from here ( http://www.mymemory.co.uk/TransFlash ) for £49.99... I think you have to pay about £3 postage, apart from that I've ordered fro these guys before so if you're in UK check it out.
I'm waiting on 8GB full size SD Card.
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I'm waiting on 8GB full size SD Card.
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This would also need appropriate devices being able to deal with this memory size !
As far as I heard - anybody appreciated to correct me in case I'm wrong - the original SD Card standard is limited to 2GB.
An extension of the standard has already been passed but requiring modified hardware requirements (card reader ?).
I have had one of the first samples of a 4GB SD Card (full side) from Transcend.
I have been (and am still) using it with my digital camera (Casio Exilim S-600). This camera is quite new. It can cope with the card but it takes a few seconds when switching on the cam for the card being recognized / validated.
(With an SD Card up to 2GB the camera is ready almost instantly after switching it on.)
Having access to such a huge image repository is cool, but it's a bit diminished by the fact that the camera takes "soooo long" to be ready with it after switching it on. (I like shooting snapshots.)
However with other cameras I might have not been lucky at all !
Read postings that many devices can't recognize that card at all.
I haven't yet tested it with my Qtek 9000.
All these new phones are coming out with no microsd slots.
Its really making me mad. I hope Google is not pullin the plug on them.
Google isn't pulling the plug necessarily. Android still supports MicroSD just fine.
Manufacturers are just making phones thinner and don't see it as much of a selling point. As we saw with HTC today, instead of offering SDcards, they're offering 25gb of free Dropbox storage.
SD or no SD
I made a final purchasing decision based on having a micro SD card. My final choice was between the Google Nexus and the HTC Rezound. I went with the resound because it has a micro SD slot. I just like being able to port ROMs and apps and music and such between devices easily.
With these new UHS-1 SD/microSD cards becoming more prevalent, I've been doing research into their supporting hardware and software for devices and I can't seem to locate much useful info (not really that surprising I suppose).
My question is this, if anyone can answer it:
Is UHS-1 support strictly hardware-based meaning the speed gains are provided by a different type of hardware controller for the SD/microSD card reader itself, or is the UHS-1 support for the speed gains provided by a simple software aspect?
I ask because years ago the perfect example to use would be the Dell Axim series of Pocket PCs. The premiere model, the X51v (which I still own and still use regularly) originally shipped with support for SD cards no larger than 4GB in size, but then the SDHC standard was finalized and if you installed a custom ROM (I used Maglite's ROMs, and the ones from Football, but then I settled on the ones from LennySH in the long run, still using one now) you could "enable" the SDHC support and get the higher capacity cards working just fine. To this day I still have a 16GB SDHC card in my X51v and it's never had a single issue running 5+ years now.
So because for the older cards you could enable the larger capacity aspect, I'm wondering if the support for the UHS-1 increased speeds might just be a software thing that could be added to or enabled in custom ROMs for various devices like the Galaxy S4 Active that I currently own. I know from reports that the International version of the S4 with the 8-core Exynos CPU does support UHS-1 out of the box so again, the question is whether it's a hardware support thing or if there's just some specific driver or software-level support to enable accessing those speeds.
It sucks that this type of info is tough to find, and it seems a bit strange that companies are really pushing the UHS-1 cards out in mass quantities nowadays - most every week Fry's and other retailers have sales of such cards, right now as of this morning Fry's has the Samsung 64GB microSD UHS-1 card for $45 and I'm thinking about getting one - and yet there's only one single smartphone on the market today (not even in the US, go figure) that actually allows you to gain access to those UHS1- read/write speeds?
That's not right.
If anyone has any info they'd care to share, I'm all ears... errr... eyes, I suppose.
Thanks...
No clues, eh? Oh well... was worth a shot.
I have had my mobiles all with internal storage since my first smartphone, and so had both the limits of whatever the phone had and also the simplicity of one storage. I'm now getting into the G4P and I had a 64GB and a 128GB microSD card, the 64GB was in a family member's phone and worked fine, the 128GB I found less reliable, I got another G4P and found the SD card was often not being seen by the phone, and taking back cover off and rebooting etc, and if it did work I was getting like 2MB-4MB.
Anyhow, older wiser, I bought a Samsung Evo+ card based on reviews, unlike the daily deal brand I got before, and its night+day different. I can now tell the Moto camera app to write to SD and it doesn't crash, and the card stays visible.
If you're making the journey into the G4P don't skimp on the cheapest SD card it ruins the experience.
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I have had my mobiles all with internal storage since my first smartphone, and so had both the limits of whatever the phone had and also the simplicity of one storage. I'm now getting into the G4P and I had a 64GB and a 128GB microSD card, the 64GB was in a family member's phone and worked fine, the 128GB I found less reliable, I got another G4P and found the SD card was often not being seen by the phone, and taking back cover off and rebooting etc, and if it did work I was getting like 2MB-4MB.
Anyhow, older wiser, I bought a Samsung Evo+ card based on reviews, unlike the daily deal brand I got before, and its night+day different. I can now tell the Moto camera app to write to SD and it doesn't crash, and the card stays visible.
If you're making the journey into the G4P don't skimp on the cheapest SD card it ruins the experience.
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Not sure if size makes a difference but I'm currently using a 32gb high speed card in my g4p and it was pretty cheap at Walmart. It also seems to work very well.
32 gb card is enough for me to deal with.
I bought 32 gb sd card along with g4 play from amazon and my friend bought same with 64. He is facing phone storage issue whereas I am not. I think sdhc card is more reliable than sdxc.
I'm currently using a 64 GB MicroSDXC UHS-I Card from the relatively unknown manufacturer 'QUMOX'.
I was pleasantly surprised.Particularly with regard to the comparatively low cost.
In any case is the performance as every bit as good as the from SanDisk based on my experience.
I'm using a 32GB Kingston card, SDHC, that I purchased in November of 2014 for my LG F6. I replaced that phone 2 weeks ago with a Moto G4P, and I have had zero trouble with it. My music collection is on there, and I've been using it every single day since I purchased it.
Hey I made a petition asking Samsung to add back the SD card slot, at least in the ultra line.
If you like SD card slots and would like to see them again, consider supporting it so Samsung see's there is still interest.
If you don't like SD slots, or don't care about them, don't waste energy arguing about it, just don't sign it.
Here is the link, https://chng.it/6wjJMQDvgm or search for it on change.org.
Thanks either way!
No SD card slot, no sale.
Between Samsung's and Android 11/12's weak offerings I bought my second new N10+, a reliable and proven workhorse.
If Samsung doesn't listen, it will cost them sales.
I'm good for another 2-4 years if I want...
Personally I could use two or three 1tb slots plus a sim card slot. My current database is 2 tb.
Samsung is going backwards.