Why do so few mobile phones have space for memory cards?

Question: Do you know why so many manufacturers remove the micro-sd card slot in the slightly more expensive mobiles (and tablets)? It can hardly be a savings or budget requirement, when we’re talking about mobile phones that often cost well over SEK 10,000. Personally, I think it’s idiotic. If you have lots of files you want to work with, which you don’t want in the cloud for various reasons, then it’s great not to have to fill the mobile’s internal memory.

Elias Nordling answers: I think the reason for opting out of the card slot is that it risks slowing down the mobile phone or tablet. The internal memory has significantly faster buses than the card slot, and the card itself can also be slow. Probably they are afraid of being held responsible for the mobile becoming slow when people choose to use slow memory cards. If you save camera images directly to the memory card, it may be too slow for some of the post-processing functions in the camera to work. In cheaper mobile phones, this is less of a problem and therefore the memory card slot remains.

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