Poll results: How important is the availability of a microSD card slot to you when buying a smartphone?

Samsung's announcement of the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge still fresh in our minds, on Monday we asked you to rate the importance of the microSD card slot to you when buying a smartphone. Now, some 72 hours later, voting is closed, and the faith of our little survey – sealed.

It should come as no surprise that a clear majority (51.62% of all votes, to be exact) considers the ability to expand upon built-in storage "a must-have". This makes sense – if you're anything approaching a power user, you may very well need that, especially if you're not willing to pay an outrageous sum extra for some more storage on top. Perhaps as problematic, however, is the fact that not all devices on the market have models with more than 32 gigs of storage, in which case it's understandable that photography buffs and heavy multimedia users would require a microSD card.

As for the remaining votes, 36.89% are attributed to people who view the slot as an important addition, but not a deal breaker (makes sense, given the ubiquity of cloud storage nowadays), and 11.49% of them were cast by people who consider the matter unimportant. See for yourself:

How important is the availability of a microSD card slot to you when buying a smartphone?

A must-have

51.62%

Important, but not a deal-breaker

36.89%

Unimportant

11.49%

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Chris Panayotov is a former mobile tech reviewer of phones, tablets and wearables at PhoneArena. However, his contribution to PhoneArena content includes not just reviews, but all kinds of regular and experimental features, such as news stories, buying guides, and an exclusive column on the most notable phones out of Asia.