Phones with a microSD card slot
Expandable storage has been dropped by nearly every flagship, which makes the phones that keep it genuinely notable. If you shoot a lot of video, carry offline media, or simply object to paying flagship prices per gigabyte, this is the list that matters.
How this list is built:Devices with a microSD or equivalent expandable storage slot. It is generated from the specification database and updates automatically as devices are added or revised — no device pays to appear here.
No devices currently meet these criteria. The list fills as the catalogue grows.
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