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I was in our local O2 shop yesterday looking at an Honor 200 or 400. I
had a Huawei until last year (battery died) which I found very good -
until 'The Donald' stopped Google selling the Play Store to them.
However with Honor now having been sold off they appeal to me. The only issue is a memory expansion (micro SD) card slot which I know Honor do
not provide.
In chatting with a salesperson I was told that other manufacturers do
not provide the memory expansion facility either - which surprises me.
Yes I know I can get an Honor model with 512GB on board, but is the
comment about 'other manufacturers not fitting such' true or not?
Comment or thoughts on an Android phone I might buy would be
appreciated. Note I do not want any iPhone, and I am uneasy about
Samsung being overpriced and stuffed full of unwanted rubbish. My price limit would be around -u250.
I was in our local O2 shop yesterday looking at an Honor 200 or 400. I
had a Huawei until last year (battery died) which I found very good -
until 'The Donald' stopped Google selling the Play Store to them.
However with Honor now having been sold off they appeal to me. The only
issue is a memory expansion (micro SD) card slot which I know Honor do
not provide.
In chatting with a salesperson I was told that other manufacturers do
not provide the memory expansion facility either - which surprises me.
Yes I know I can get an Honor model with 512GB on board, but is the
comment about 'other manufacturers not fitting such' true or not?
Comment or thoughts on an Android phone I might buy would be
appreciated. Note I do not want any iPhone, and I am uneasy about
Samsung being overpriced and stuffed full of unwanted rubbish. My price
limit would be around -u250.
Certainly gone from the latest Samsung models. Sony still appears to
have them..
In chatting with a salesperson I was told that other manufacturers do
not provide the memory expansion facility either - which surprises me.
Yes I know I can get an Honor model with 512GB on board, but is the
comment about 'other manufacturers not fitting such' true or not?
Certainly gone from the latest Samsung models. Sony still appears to
have them..
Comment or thoughts on an Android phone I might buy would be
appreciated. Note I do not want any iPhone, and I am uneasy about
Samsung being overpriced and stuffed full of unwanted rubbish. My price
limit would be around u250.
Anything here of interest? <https://mendmyiphone.co.uk/post/android-phones-with-sdcard-slot-in-2025>
On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:58:26 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote :
Comment or thoughts on an Android phone I might buy would be
appreciated. Note I do not want any iPhone, and I am uneasy about
Samsung being overpriced and stuffed full of unwanted rubbish. My price
limit would be around +U250.
Anything here of interest?
<https://mendmyiphone.co.uk/post/android-phones-with-sdcard-slot-in-2025>
I think the best way to figure out which phones have sd slots is gsmarena.
This Android search shows 2,114 Android phones with the sd slot included.
<https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sAvailabilities=1,2&idOS=2&idCardslot=1>
That's out of 3205 Android phones (if I remove the sd slot criteria).
<https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sAvailabilities=1,2&idOS=2>
That means 66% of Android phones out there still have the sd slot hardware.
Example: I had a smartphone - can't remember make or model - but it was designated as having Gorilla 3 glass and a (magnetic) compass. The UK
market version did not have G3 nor a compass as well as a couple of
other facilities.
Currently I have a Motorola G8(pwr) which is supposed to have wi-fi
calling, but wi-fi calling will not work on my SP's system with this
phone (supposedly waiting for Moto to produce a software upgrade - this
on a phone just two years old.)
Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Example: I had a smartphone - can't remember make or model - but it was
designated as having Gorilla 3 glass and a (magnetic) compass. The UK
market version did not have G3 nor a compass as well as a couple of
other facilities.
You need to look up the specific model number of the phone, not the
marketing name. ie SM-GTxxxx not Samsung Galaxy Whatever. GSMArena typically says on their pages where the different models differ.
Although not always super clearly - eg here's the Galaxy Note 4: https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_4-6434.php
- some of the variants are Snapdragon and some Exynos, but it doesn't
clarify which are which
Currently I have a Motorola G8(pwr) which is supposed to have wi-fi
calling, but wi-fi calling will not work on my SP's system with this
phone (supposedly waiting for Moto to produce a software upgrade - this
on a phone just two years old.)
The phone has wifi calling, just your provider has chosen not to enable it, which has to be done on a per-network / per-model basis. That's a perennial problem with VoLTE / wifi calling.
On Wed 23/07/2025 10:29, Theo wrote:
Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Example: I had a smartphone - can't remember make or model - but it was
designated as having Gorilla 3 glass and a (magnetic) compass. The UK
market version did not have G3 nor a compass as well as a couple of
other facilities.
You need to look up the specific model number of the phone, not the marketing name. ie SM-GTxxxx not Samsung Galaxy Whatever. GSMArena typically says on their pages where the different models differ.
Although not always super clearly - eg here's the Galaxy Note 4: https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_4-6434.php
- some of the variants are Snapdragon and some Exynos, but it doesn't
clarify which are which
Currently I have a Motorola G8(pwr) which is supposed to have wi-fi
calling, but wi-fi calling will not work on my SP's system with this
phone (supposedly waiting for Moto to produce a software upgrade - this
on a phone just two years old.)
The phone has wifi calling, just your provider has chosen not to enable it, which has to be done on a per-network / per-model basis. That's a perennial
problem with VoLTE / wifi calling.
Sorry Theo, wrong. Wifi calling is active on GiffGaff (which is the O2 infrastructure) and some phones will work and others won't. Motorola
have specifically said that my G8(pwr) and a couple of other models need upgraded software from Moto who are seemingly not supplying it.
On Wed 23/07/2025 10:29, Theo wrote:
Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Example: I had a smartphone - can't remember make or model - but it was
designated as having Gorilla 3 glass and a (magnetic) compass. The UK
market version did not have G3 nor a compass as well as a couple of
other facilities.
You need to look up the specific model number of the phone, not the
marketing name. ie SM-GTxxxx not Samsung Galaxy Whatever. GSMArena
typically says on their pages where the different models differ.
Although not always super clearly - eg here's the Galaxy Note 4:
https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_4-6434.php
- some of the variants are Snapdragon and some Exynos, but it doesn't
clarify which are which
Currently I have a Motorola G8(pwr) which is supposed to have wi-fi
calling, but wi-fi calling will not work on my SP's system with this
phone (supposedly waiting for Moto to produce a software upgrade - this
on a phone just two years old.)
The phone has wifi calling, just your provider has chosen not to enable it, >> which has to be done on a per-network / per-model basis. That's a perennial >> problem with VoLTE / wifi calling.
Sorry Theo, wrong. Wifi calling is active on GiffGaff (which is the O2 infrastructure) and some phones will work and others won't.
Motorola
have specifically said that my G8(pwr) and a couple of other models need upgraded software from Moto who are seemingly not supplying it.
Sadly GSMArena is not a good place to go for system information as it is written around US market products which are often different not only
from UK market products but EU products as well!
On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:58:26 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote :
Comment or thoughts on an Android phone I might buy would be
appreciated. Note I do not want any iPhone, and I am uneasy about
Samsung being overpriced and stuffed full of unwanted rubbish. My price
limit would be around u250.
Anything here of interest?
<https://mendmyiphone.co.uk/post/android-phones-with-sdcard-slot-in-2025>
I think the best way to figure out which phones have sd slots is gsmarena.
This Android search shows 2,114 Android phones with the sd slot included.
<https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sAvailabilities=1,2&idOS=2&idCardslot=1>
That's out of 3205 Android phones (if I remove the sd slot criteria).
<https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sAvailabilities=1,2&idOS=2>
That means 66% of Android phones out there still have the sd slot hardware.
Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Example: I had a smartphone - can't remember make or model - but it
was designated as having Gorilla 3 glass and a (magnetic) compass.
The UK market version did not have G3 nor a compass as well as a
couple of other facilities.
You need to look up the specific model number of the phone, not the
marketing name. ie SM-GTxxxx not Samsung Galaxy Whatever. GSMArena typically says on their pages where the different models differ.
Although not always super clearly - eg here's the Galaxy Note 4: https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_4-6434.php
- some of the variants are Snapdragon and some Exynos, but it doesn't
clarify which are which