Headphone jack is forever, so long as there is a pro and intent to market it as a creators phone, I doubt expandable media will ever go away either. You can't really be a creators device without both. Look how hard Samsung tried to sell their phones as creator tools yet nobody uses them for that purpose when compared to iPhones.

Since Samsung has long abandoned both there's no hope for them as a creative or pro tool as a phone. Headphone jack is forever important and a major deciding factor for me on what device to buy. If the statement holds true I will be a Sony Xperia consumer for a ver long time. 

The rumors for the next crop of Xperias have been all over the place.

With thungs like MicroSD Express being a thing, I wouldn't be surprised if whatever these guys think they saw was mixing up THAT taking its place as the proper successor it is.... that and honestly it seens they have so many engineering modles floating around that these leakets are blatantly confused on what falls where.

Rumours can be totally wrong, so I won't hold my breath about this. If Sony does remove the microSD card support, then they are literally asking for it. Not everyone is going to pay for cloud storage, which they never personally own.

Please don't remove the SD card slot, it will be dealbreaker in future. I'll prefer to remove the headphone jack port that sd card

If they do, they will shoot themselves in the foot.