Android phones: MicroSD card slots and headphone sockets are on the way out, not sure how I feel about that

invalid@example.com (mikeymikec), mikeymikec
Mon, 03 Nov 2025 02:50:28 +0000
Mobile Devices

I did a bit of searching on gsmarena to confirm what I've long suspected, and here are the results:

Phone release date​ | headphone socket​ | MicroSD​
2025​ | 39​ | 174​
2024​ | 105​ | 365​
2023​ | 157​ | 333​
2022​ | 200​ | 422​
2021​ | 209​ | 416​
2020​ | 214​ | 463​

Sure, 2025 isn't over yet, but I somewhat doubt we're going to see ~150 more phones released this year with one or both features 🙂

The thing is, I can survive with a phone without either feature, but for example:
1 - I have a set of earphones for running that I took ages to find which fit and are a reasonable sound quality compromise (I bought a...