I'm looking at new Android phones since the battery life on my 5-year-old phone is getting quite dismal and it seems to have a lot of issues running out of RAM lately.

There just don't seem to be very many phones with two sim slots AND a dedicated sd card slot these days. I need all of them since I have one sim for talking and texting and a separate limitless mobile broadband sim that can't make phone calls as well as a chunky SD card that I use for photos, video, media, game roms, etc. Unfortunately most lower-to-mid-range phones just have a hybrid slot at best (while high-end phones seem to have eliminated expandable storage completely.)

Basically, I'd have to ditch the internet, having extra storage or the phone's actual function as a fucking phone. The phones I found that do have the slots I need meanwhile somehow have worse specs than my current phone from 5 years ago agony

I guess I could always just carry two phones with me jokerfication

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[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If I thought like one of those companies I would say:

Making room for a bigger battery, bigger cameras and stuff like a wireless charging coil that reliably gets good reviews,
Not enough people using them, so "a sacrifice I'm willing to make" to lower costs of production and reducing phone variants,
Declaring those features outdated and deciding that now is the time to force people to "upgrade" to built-in storage or cloud services,
Upselling built-in storage and wireless devices, establishing a walled garden and creating a more steady source of revenue,
Dumb shit like wanting the sides to be as seamless as possible

I find it ironic that AES gets lampooned for its lack of variety in consumer goods, meanwhile corporations are continuously killing off their more niche variants and reducing consumer choice.