Today I want to talk to you about an "ancient" topic.
The first smartphone is a friend who started with 128G, and should not have touched the "memory card" thing. After all, the mobile phone memory card is in line with the lack of mobile phone storage and existence, the functional machine and the early smart phone in the memory is indeed not mature enough, it is too small.
In desperation, we began to use external forces to expand the memory space of the mobile phone. However, I have to say that at that time, even if the memory card was used, it was up to 128G, and most people still used 32G and 64G, which is also pitiful now.
Now, the memory card is basically invisible. Why? Obviously, this is being eliminated. Because the mobile phones sold now are all 64G start, 128G, 256G, 512G, and even 1T, 2T. The mobile phone itself carries such a large memory, who will still use the memory card?
Of course, this is only the most superficial reason. For the deeper reason, Hugo Barra, who served as vice president of Xiaomi International, said in an interview that he gave up microSD, mainly based on four factors, namely battery capacity, ergonomics, appearance, and dual CARD.
However, these four factors are given as the perspective of mobile phone manufacturers, and as consumers, the professor helps you to split in detail to see the specific reasons.
profit
Profit must be ranked first, as a mobile phone manufacturer, the starting point of everything is nothing more than the word "profit".
In a casual look in a certain east, the 64GB memory card sold for 42.9 yuan, and the 128GB was only 79.9 yuan, a difference of only 37 yuan. Look at the phones now, which sell between 64GB and 128GB. Taking Redmi 9A as an example, 4+64GB is priced at 599 yuan, and 4+128GB is priced at 799 yuan, a difference of 200 yuan between the two.
The above is still Android, Apple's difference is even greater, taking the iPhone 11 as an example, 64GB is priced at 3499 yuan, 128GB is priced at 3899 yuan, and the difference between the two is 400 yuan.
Numbers can give people the most intuitive feeling, especially as users use mobile phones more and more, the sense of dependence is getting stronger and stronger. Mobile phone manufacturers want to get more profits, memory is an excellent starting point.
Speed and power
Excluding profits, the impact of the memory card itself on the phone cannot be ignored.
After all, memory cards are added, and the merchants who sell them are also different, including many of them that sell inferior memory cards. Because as long as the mobile phone itself is installed with a memory card, it will cause the mobile phone to have a certain speed decline.
Especially many people who buy memory cards to use, in order to leave more space for mobile phones, will store a large amount of information on the memory card, especially on the memory card where WeChat and pictures are stored, and the sense of experience will be extremely poor.
Then there is the fact that adding a memory card will increase the consumption of the phone's power. This point is also one of the four factors mentioned above, after all, the power of the mobile phone at that time was not abundant, and because the memory card increased the power consumption of the mobile phone, the user's experience will naturally be poor.
Safety and quality
As mentioned earlier, the quality of the memory card varies. Among them, the poor quality memory card will not only cause the mobile phone experience to be bad, but also easy to damage itself, and it will also cause problems in the mobile phone.
And once the mobile phone has a problem, in general, everyone will think that it is a problem with the mobile phone itself, and it is not expected that it will be caused by the memory card. This invisibly increases the workload of after-sales, not only allowing the mobile phone to receive more and more bad reviews, but also affecting the reputation of mobile phone manufacturers.
Process design
The last point is for the development of mobile phones, look at the current mobile phones in terms of thin and light, you know that the memory card must be eliminated.
The memory card is placed on the memory card slot and then put into the mobile phone, which not only increases the thickness of the mobile phone, but also invisibly hinders the design of the mobile phone. Therefore, mobile phone manufacturers abandon the memory card slot and use this space to fill other components, so as to make the mobile phone more thin and light. This change not only avoids the damage caused by the mobile phone, but also improves the appearance and use experience of the mobile phone to a certain extent, which can be described as a multi-pronged event.
Every device is eliminated, there is a reason why it must be eliminated. In the process of using the memory card, there are often poor contacts, incompatibilities, abnormalities, etc., and small problems continue to affect the user experience. Memory cards can solve the siege of a mobile phone for a while, but it is not a long-term solution. In the time of this knockout game, the mobile phone memory card is destined to be eliminated.
Do you still keep the pictures you keep in your memory card?
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