That's unfortunate. Sony phones still have SD card slots, but they aren't available in Canada or the USA.Canada
How much storage are you using? If you get a good deal plenty of phones at 512 GB especially when they do early promotions. There are also some really good flash drives.
Not just convenient but an absolute necessity when travelling round areas with a patchy data connection as I often do when working.It's ideal to make use of the cloud (of your choice -- Google Drive, OneDrive, etc.) for things like music, photos, documents, etc. Although it may be convenient to have data like that saved locally,