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You know that you can use a cable or a flash drive right? Fiddling with microSD cards seems annoying.
Cable + MPV is the precise nightmare that lead me to be prejudice of these "non-solutions".
And plugging in a big ackward fat USB-C in the bottom of the phone sounds like a hazard way to break your USB port.
Avoiding phones without 3.5mm AUX and without MicroSD is easier. Problem averted.
Edit: Also, phone suddenly dead? No problem pull the MicroSD for your data.
Not sure what you mean by MPV.
But why the hell would a flash drive break your USB-C port? What are you doing with your phone?
I wasn't suggesting you keep in there 24/7 only when you need to transfer a file. So like, max a few minutes each time.
Also you can buy small USB-C flash drives. I have this one which is fairly nice: https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/usb-flash-drives/usb-type-c-256gb-muf-256da-am/
MTP* and if you don't understand why plugging a chonker into USB-C might be a bad idea you probably haven't had decades of repair experience and "accidents".
You should see what people do to their DC-AC ports.
I suggest you are more careful with your phone.
I suggest you re-read my postulate and stop acting in bad faith.
USB-C really isn't that fragile.
microSD is fairly fragile though
Fair enough, I understand your view. For my use case I will vote with my dollar for 3.5mm and MicroSD.
Data recovery pulling a MicroSD from a phone is much easier than trying to desolder a memory chip with a hotair gun and figure out how to download it.
Also I am not cool with Google and Microsoft and Apple stacking the deck to send all the data to their headquarters, but that's just me.
YMMV. Choice is good. And yes I got what you meant about people. USB-C is engineered better than predecessor ports still without a proper stand or attentive care I can't see average user wear and tear not breaking some ports assuming they knew how to do it to begin with.
Maybe you could argue that a external NVME would be less hazardous but a stiff Flash is going to be harder to make a case for. I've seen people have more problems with USBC than USBA despite its improvements.
But that's just my view and if you have your own and we disagree I understand and that's okay.
I'm not arguing that expandable storage and that 3.5 mm ports should be removed. I would love both.
I'm just saying that transferring files using microSD cards seems like a pain compared to USB.
They are great for expandable storage.
Uh, so I guess I should stop "plugging in a big awkward fat USB-C" every day to charge my phone then...
That must be why my phones have a broken port ... checks motes ... zero times in the last many years.
BTW a USB key with USB-C on one side and a classic USB-A on the other side is great for transferring stuff between a phone and a PC IMO.