The cost of cell phones and other products will be higher in 2026, so it wouldn’t be strange to see the return of microSD to overcome this problem
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There is no doubt that the mobile phone market finds itself at a somewhat worrying point as we approach 2026, as artificial intelligence consumes everything in terms of hardware resources. We are not facing a simple technological transition, but a global supply crisis that is forcing industry giants to prioritize data centers above everything else, including smartphones. As expected, this has direct consequences on the final price.
What only three years ago seemed like a relic condemned to oblivion now appears as a possibility. By September 2022, the narrative was clear: internal storage was the absolute king for its speed and efficiency, leaving microSD cards as a slow, expendable fix. However, the ambition to integrate complex language models into every device has generated an artificial scarcity that threatens to bring us back to solutions we thought were buried forever, or at least cause us to rethink them.
The return of what already seemed forgotten
In 2022, UFS 2.2 technology began to emerge, which crushed any microSD card on the market in terms of performance, delivering read speeds six times faster than a SanDisk Extreme. But of course, things have changed a lot and the costs are no longer the same.
This economic pressure is starting to create a plausible possibility for next year: returning to microSD support if we want internal storage with large…
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