It really is a shame that Samsung is now going the planned obsolescence route with their phones.

[jalamanta]

There is no point in buying android phones in 2015.

Its been over for all them vacuum cleaner manufacturers once Apple released 4.7 and 5.5 screens.

Now its a matter of time.

 

[winb83]

Android never stopped supporting sd cards

There was a point where stock Android phased out SD cards
Google bringing SD card support back to Android in 5.0 Lollipop
They brought it back.

 

[Maschine_Man]

the fact that things are going more towards cloud type stuff you need less and less storage.

fukk an SD card.

 

[Dre Space Age]

backfired on samsung
Samsung Slumps to 10-Month Low on Disappointment With New Phones

 

[satam55]

Android never stopped supporting sd cards

There was a point where stock Android phased out SD cards
Google bringing SD card support back to Android in 5.0 Lollipop
They brought it back.

Notable quotes from the articles:

However, Google is adding some new APIs to Android 5.0 to allow easy access to SD cards after bringing back limited SD functionality in Android 4.4.

Google started to bring back some SD card functionality with Android 4.4, but has admitted that it didn't go far enough.

They never took it SD card support away. They limited it's functionality.

 

[We Ready]

I'm up for a new phone.


iphone is out of the question, not interested.


Is the G4 my best bet here? I'm thinking that or the Note 4 or 5.



@L@CaT

@Liquid

 

[StatUS]

So if the world cares so much about sd card and removable batteries then when these new Windows Mobile phones drop next month there should be huge interest for it right Coli

 

[Dre Space Age]

So if the world cares so much about sd card and removable batteries then when these new Windows Mobile phones drop next month there should be huge interest for it right Coli

the allure of android is customization, dude.

 

[StatUS]

the allure of android is customization, dude.

So you're saying people will buy these phones regardless and this is all just the usual internet uproar

 

[Dre Space Age]

So you're saying people will buy these phones regardless and this is all just the usual internet uproar

unfortunately yes. same kind of people that bought the s6 smfh

 

[Rigby.]

Android phones are trying to copy Apple now because Apple is becoming the only company that can turn substantial profits. What these companies don't know is that Android fan(atic)s care more about seemingly irrelevant things like removable batteries and SD cards (which I like). Apple stans are GOING to go to apple and removing SD cards and becoming so thin you sacrifice battery life isn't gonna make them change.

 

[Pimp]

I never removed a battery ever on any phone and never used a sd card.. Who gives a fukk

 

[AB Ziggy]

unfortunately yes. same kind of people that bought the s6 smfh

Only a small subset of people buy the Galaxy S6 because of customization. The rest buy it just because of the SD card and removable battery.

 

[Absolut da poet ®]

Android never stopped supporting sd cards

and just to follow this train of thought in the thread

if stock android didn't have native support for the sd card
would it even be possible to add this through......TouchWiz ?

 

[Absolut da poet ®]

Notable quotes from the articles:




They never took it SD card support away. They limited it's functionality.

and I'm guessing this was a security measure..

just thinking if you can write to a storage drive via app then
you could most likely write something malicious and