TBH I will probably wind up getting it only because it has headphone and SD card slot. Hopefully it is rootable too though they have been weeding that out on some models as well.
Yes, Sony is one of the last holdouts to make a flagship that still has both. They used to be really bad at software updates but have somewhat upped their ante on that. The price is still somewhat expensive and charging significantly slow (peak of 27 W is ironically slower than my budget Android phone).
3.5mm jack and SD card slot make a significant difference. I have a cheap phone but have a 256 gigs latter slotted in inside to give some storage. And former is even more important because there are lots of times when I am just listening to say, music or podcast in a still situation where true wireless buds don’t make sense. Why waste battery of expensive wireless buds when one can put decent IEMs in?
The only reasonably-priced phone I have found that has a headphone jack and SD card slot is the OnePlus Nord CE Lite 3 5G (Or the Nord N30 5G for North America). If you’re looking for a phone with those specs + excellent camera, pass on this one. Camera is decent, maybe a little better than an older pixel phone, but nothing special.
Both the CE and N30 are supported by LineageOS (larry) if you want to flash a different ROM.
For any Americans, the phone is not available in the US
Doesn’t matter (to me at least), fuck a $1500 phpne
