15 percent of readers use an SD card for additional storage

The SD card is still popular: 15 percent of Androidworld readers use an SD card in their phone to have enough memory at their disposal. Furthermore, many readers do not actually suffer from memory problems on their smartphone: 58 percent never experience that their phone memory is full, according to the AW Poll.

AW Poll

If you had a phone in the 90s, you often had to delete text messages because the memory was already full. Now that is unthinkable. Even in the budget segment, smartphones pack a lot of storage. Plus, what we didn’t really have in the 90s but we did in the year 2022: the cloud.

Much of the data that you would normally store on your device is now stored somewhere on a server elsewhere. 9 percent of the people who responded to our poll use the cloud to store some of their data. However, not everyone finds that coud equally pleasant, because it is always online and does not remain in-house. As a result, there are also people who use a NAS (a kind of private cloud on your own network): 3 percent opt ​​for this.

Throw away

It’s a bit extreme, but often a good idea: delete apps and photos from your phone when your phone is full. We often take 10 pictures of the same with our smartphones, of which 1 or 2 are suitable. We also shoot a lot for social media and those photos are already online anyway, so there’s not necessarily a need to save them on your phone (unless you want to keep the high-resolution originals).

Also apps: if you have downloaded the world ufodag app, but have already read everything, then it can also be removed, just like probably many other apps. For example, we do not use the Corona detector at the moment (although it is feared that it will apply again soon). 14 percent choose to delete photos or apps when the phone can no longer handle it.

SD card

2 percent opt ​​for a different solution and less than 1 percent do not know. There are also readers who have some points for improvement for telephone makers, such as Stefan.K: “High-end keys no longer have micro-sd slots, unfortunately. And the 256 GB in the devices is really not enough space for me.. It’s time for 1 TB internal storage space devices with micro-SD expansion possibility!!” Fahad.H fully agrees: “Unfortunately, no more new high-end devices with a micro-SD slot. It was nice to write photos and videos from the camera app directly to the SD card. Will unfortunately have to switch to a device without a micro-SD slot next year.” Are you reading along, telephone makers?

Rrrobert himself has found a solution to free up memory on his phone: “My phone was also full after a year. The culprit turned out to be Chrome: it swallowed 77 Gb of the 128 Gb. So I’ve been keeping an eye on that app ever since.” Not even the holiday snaps or Netflix downloads!

Thanks for participating and see you next week when we’ll be back with a brand new poll!