The 3.5mm headphone jack has nearly gone extinct, but these excellent Android phones are still holding on.
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 Pro was on my radar for a bit, but I’m really not a fan of their software.
I believe that version has pretty good support for custom roms.
That could be an option, but IIRC to unlock the bootloader you have to contact Xiaomi’s support and wait for them to give you a code
Also I would prefer to just use stock OS and not risking bricking the device
Reportedly they changed the requirement for bootloader unlocking to be much harder, with a global limited number activation per day. Basically next to impossible with the official tools.
It won’t be long before Custom Rom maintainer will lose interest on new Xiaomi phones.
https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame/blob/main/brands/xiaomi/README.md
I just looked up smartphones with headphone and SD card slots on GSMarena, and there are 159 models even from 2025. That’s more than I expected. And most of them are actually affordable and worth the cost - I wouldn’t recommend half the devices on this list purely based on price to performance ratio.
Moto G56 was on my radar, but seems like a sidegrade from my G84
Most of the devices on that list are hard to find in Europe.
The Moto Stylus 2025 is perfect on paper, but is only sold in the US for some reason.
Only one slimmer than 73mm… 😭
Which have sdcard support also
Are we still discussing headphone jack??
More enshittification. I still use my headphone jack occasionally.
I use it every day
I don’t even know how to use a headphone jack to connect my Bluetooth headphones…
I thought I’d miss my headphone jack a lot more, but I can’t even recall the last time I’ve needed it.
