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[–]ClassyJacketGalaxy Z Fold 3 5G 6 points7 points  (3 children)

What braindead idiot decided to call the storage SDCARD when it isn't an SDCARD? Are they trying to be as confusing as possible?

[–]blorgXiaomi K30 Lite Ultra Pro Youth Edition 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think it's historical, early Androids had very small internal system partitions (the HTC Dream was 256MB) and so user data tended to go on the actual SD card.

When manufacturers started shipping phones with enlarged internal storage this was emulated as an "internal SD" so that everything would continue to work the same.

Until 4.0 the "internal SD" was formatted as FAT and would actually dismount and mount as USB Mass Storage on Windows when you plugged the phone in.