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This right here is Android's killer app, and the very reason I've exclusively owned rootable Android mobile devices (Nexus → OnePlus → Pixel) for a little over a decade. Every single one of my old devices that isn't lost or totally destroyed (a few have broken screens) is now a server providing little services like this one (mostly filehosting and backups in my case). It's been quite fun!

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> This right here is Android's killer app

Similarly, for me, android's killer app is that I can still get a phone with an SD card slot and an aux jack - so my music is with me, without needing to rely on a flakey old phone rightly condemned to the junk drawer.

Which phone is that? Even Samsung (who once mocked Apple for it) has dropped those external features.

ASUS still has sdcard slots in their phones. Sony phones too but Asus is a better bet at this point for long term supportability.

All the Moto phones I have had come with these. I still see them in plenty of Android phones.

Yes, my previous phone was a Samsung, and I dropped them because they no longer come with these two features. My current phone is a OnePlus (basically rebadged Oppo). I also considered the Moto G series, but their selection in Canada is awful.

Sony Xperias still have SD card slots, although some of them don't have 3.5 mm jacks.

Samsung XCover Pro?

I'm using a Samsung Note 10 Lite. Wacom stylus, SD card, headphone jack, and though the battery is ostensibly not user replaceable, a guitar pick will open the case. I love this phone.

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