[egorelik]

I too find the phone market, especially in the United States, has outright abandoned users like me. About a year ago I rushed to buy what seems to have been the last flagship model sold in the United States to have micro SD card support (an Xperia 1V), as soon as I saw stocks were dwindling. Now there are none left, and while I should be good for a few years, I fret over what I will do next time.

Just the other idea, I tried transferring a large number of photos from phone to PC with a cable, just to see how bad it would be without a card. It was so slow I eventually gave up (not to mention the timestamps were messed up). I have no idea how anyone manages this way.

[conception]

They don’t. They sync to/from the cloud in real time.

[johnny22]

wifi would probably be faster than the cable.

[egorelik]

I tried that too - it works great for large files, but still chokes on large numbers of files. Which, when I'm transferring photos, is usually the case.