For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

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    10 months ago

    Memory card slots.

    I can tolerate a missing headphone jack, a non replaceable battery, but a missing memory card slot is just too much.

    At the moment, the only non Chinese brand of phones that includes this slot are Samsung I think. And even then, certain models also include it.

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      One big technical reason for this was actually the file system. Back when phones came with various types of sd-card support, they only had a few gigs of storage. fat32 was enough and was supported everywhere. But fat32 had some file system limitations and when sd-card sizes grew over 4gb there were comparability issues since windows was limited to fat32 and ntfs. I can imagine the support hell when a user couldn’t mount the sd card containing photos on his or her computer.

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        The solution to that was ExFAT, which is another patented MS system, so requires a license fee (I think) but otherwise is compatible with anything (because they all had to pay the fee…) But specifically compatible with Windows out of the box.

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          I beliexe exFAT has been made free. It’s the official filesystem of SDXC cards, and many of them come pre-formatted.