Still my criterion when looking to buy a phone.
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Any luck? Or have you been using a 10year old phone because the stupid phone manufacturers think following Apple is a good idea
Sony Xperia is still going and has headphones jacks.
And an SD card slot, I absolutely love mine!
I genuinely can't believe they took away the microsd slot from modern phones
I even pre bought a card before getting my new phone because I just assumed it'd have the slot. Should've done more research i guess
Gonna have to double check the next phone I buy has a screen first
The Samsung Galaxy A15 5G has an audio jack and is somewhat recent. It's a budget phone, though. The spec's aren't the best, but the price point is nice. If you wanted to listen to flac over wired headphones, that would work well.
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I refuse to get a phone without a headphone jack. Mostly because I know I'm inevitably going to lose my headphones, forget to charge them, forget them in my trouser pockets that will go in the wash. The latter has happened at least a couple of times with my current headphones and they still work just fine. Try that with your Bluetooth pair and let me know how it goes.
My Bluetooth bone induction headphones survived a month in the bottom of a dishwasher.
As soon as you stop having a cord get caught on everything in your life and get used to pausing/playing with a tap to the ear it all clicks.
But yea the raycon/airpod models don't appeal to me.
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I just got a USB DAC for $12. If also has a type C pass through. It's so small it stays permanently attached to my wired headphones.
It's a fairly complete solution tbh.
I'm still rocking a 7-year-old Galaxy S9+. A few years ago my headphone jack wore out and the gapped hole no longer retains my earbud cable. Since then, I've been using a USB-C adapter, but the combined earbud and charging use is starting to take it's toll and the port is beginning to feel loose. I'm convinced that if I was limited to USB only over the full life of this phone, I would have lost wired headphone and wired charging capability a long time ago. I wish you well with your singular bottleneck port.
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I still have one in my phone, and external SD card storage too. Another thing that they want gone (cloud storage agenda).
I still have one, really don't want to get a new phone that doesn't. I still use my earbuds all the time
Back in my day phones actually had the ports people wanted.
But but my new phone is 3 microns thinner!
Sure we lost all the ports people actually needed, but 3 microns man!
3 microns thinner and 5 cm longer! oh you want to fit your phone in your pocket comfortably? how about you go fuck yourself
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But but my new phone is 3 microns thinner!
If only. My Galaxy S8 from 2018 had a 3.5mm socket and it was thinner than my current iPhone 16e.
Yes but now you can also have 17 camera lenses bulging out the back!
A simple couple wires that work without pairing, without drivers, without 3 separate volume controls, and worked on the terribly complicated premise of inserting a plug into a hole. Next thing they'll try and say speakers need a dozen micro wires on a special propriety cable to do what they do better.
without drivers
All headphones have drivers :^)
Man, what are you driving that you need headphones, all my cars have built in stereos...
I think it may have been a joke ;)
The "driver" is a part of a speaker that actually makes the physical motion that makes the sound. So all speakers do have drivers haha
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I’m going to do what I do in every thread mentioning a headphone jack: Say I don’t mind Bluetooth and get downvoted.
BT is good, but anything wired is (and always will be) better and more reliable while being a little less convenient (with some exceptions)
Unless I’m paying for $1600 audio cables my noise-damaged ears can’t tell the difference and I like that I don’t rip things out of them.
audio cables don't matter beyond the $5 range. what you're experiencing with expensive cables is placebo in that case. for me the annoyances with bluetooth are:
- lag
- a/v resync
- high pitched hiss
- having to keep headphones that used to just plug into the phone charged
- the fact that bluetooth headphones degrade over time, giving them less longevity than wired
- interference
i understand there are people in this thread that don't miss headphone jacks, but to act like bluetooth is flat superior is to ignore that bluetooth has genuine downsides that just a wire doesn't
Don't forget audio quality drop when switching from audio only to audio + microphone. Shit drives me up the wall.
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I have a genuine issue that I'd love to get your ideas on.
When I am walking around with my bluetooth headphones in what I assume are places with lots of other signals, the audio goes to complete shit as if I'm on a bumpy road in a car listening to a super skippy CD.
How can I avoid that? It works perfectly when I'm on a bus or at home..
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imagine a time where phones have Bluetooth and and go on the aux
The magical time of 2017, where devices could have Bluetooth 5 and a headphone jack.
Good for you? I prefer having headphones I don't need to charge and that won't take my phone's only USB port, so while you personally might not find it useful, a use case for the 3.5mm jack clearly still exists.
Every argument I have ever heard boils down to "in my specific use-case because of X Y Z and Purple, all the benefits of wired are irrelevant" and the people espousing such opinions don't at all take into consideration that other people exists and their specific use-case is not at all widely experienced.
"My tinnitus means I can't distinguish high tones well" okay buddy, but how many other people enjoy distinct highs?
"I move around too much so Bluetooth is the only practical solution" okay my friend, but many people either don't have that problem, or they've found a solution.
I don't mind it either and do have both, but sometimes i get interference when i'm close to people (which is when i wanna to use the earphones) and i complain about the lack of the port not because bluetooth is shit, but because is importante to have the option
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Sony Xperias have 3.5mm jacks again. A few of them are also supported by LineageOS and Sailfish OS, so you're not necessarily stuck in the Google ecosystem.
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Using mine right this very moment.
I regret buying one without it.
I bought pixel 6a, mainly for graphene os but didn't install it because I wouldn't be able to use Google pay. My main things why I regret getting it is that there's no headphone jack and no SD card slot. Thought it wouldn't be that bad but... It is that bad. Next time I'm getting a phone once this goes bad I'm definitely getting headphone jack and SD card slot.
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I got a pair of wired earbuds for $20 at my drug store and the audio quality and build quality is really serviceable. I would probably have to pay at least $60 or $70 for a similar build and audio quality with Bluetooth earbuds.
And this is the reason why apple and other companies jump on the trend. Many of these manufacturers also sell Bluetooth headphones and they want people to buy them instead of cheaper wired ones.
Some of them make excuses but this is one of the primary reasons, and some of the excuses are so transparently stupid it isn't even funny. Like saying they removed it so people can use Bluetooth headphones (as if presence of the headphone jack prevents use of Bluetooth headphones 🙄).
ITT: Apple customers think everyone is as bad at purchasing decisions as they are.
"Bro, look at this concept art of a cyborg girl listening to music with wireless earbuds! Wouldn't it be cool if you could have the same technology real life? Bro, just stop being a Luddite for two seconds, having to charge a second device is not a big inconvenience for looking like the future!"
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