Most of the phones I'm looking at max out at 256 Gb storage, minus whatever the OS uses. My next phone will almost certainly be a Sony because of the SD card slot. I do a lot of RAW photography, and travel in enough places without data service and/or sketchy cell access that large local storage is not negotiable.

I wanted the Sony, but they only give 2 years of security updates which is abysmal. That killed it for me

Just to offer an alternative viewpoint, because I have come across these issues and ended up buying a Sony phone because I had such a bad time without the 3.5mm headphone socket.

Some people want more internal storage than even 512gb - I have a 400gb microSD in my phone because with the OS and apps getting bigger, even a large internal storage can fill up fast. Also, it's nice to have media collections, photos, and other files with you, rather than relying on data and cloud storage, and the cost is now very low for a large microSD. It's also easier to transfer large amounts of data between devices that way.

As for headphones, dongles are a pain and USB headphones have to have a (usually not great) DAC in them to work, plus many people already have great headphones they want to keep using. All of that said, the biggest issue with USB headphones IMO is that there is only one USB port - the wear and tear of using it for everything is significant. Also, USB-C plugs are much more breakable and harder to replace than a 3.5mm jack. Additionally, you cannot charge and listen at the same time without a dongle and many of those are bad (none of the ones I have tried have worked for more than a few weeks before connectivity issues started).

Yes my Xperia 1V has the headphone jack and SD card slot. No I can't even fill up the internal storage (512GB) but it just feels good to have it.

They still have an SD slot but got rid of the notification LED.

Some of ASUS's phone have headphones jacks too, notably the ROG phone line (excluding the 3 IIRC)

Wait, do we have ads on the PS3?

It has been a long time since I turned it on.

Unfortunately even if you could distribute them here last I checked they don't have the US band support and going through FCC certification process takes time and money

I get constaly nagged to enable cloud backup.

Google. I have 15GB you gave me for free of which 7 or so are used by various stuff.
I don't even have the space to off-load to it.
And I have an on-site backup so F you.

From my understanding they didn't just get inspiration from Google, it's actually using their system and their help to build (both running on Google Gemini).