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I dont have a headphone jack but I have a dongle to use some sound isolating earbuds while I ride my motorcycle my last trip was about 6ish hours and I dont think there are many wireless earbuds that would last that long
The earbuds were like $20 and have an actual nrr my $90 airpods sound way more tinny in addition to not fitting as well and leaking sound
Lately I've been using my Bluetooth headphones more, because of the noise cancelling. However, I still use my phone's headphone jack about once a week.
On my iPad I almost never use Bluetooth headphones because I mostly only use it for note taking with the Apple Pencil so I take it where I go often and hate having it auto connect/disconnect to my Bluetooth headphones when I'm not even using my iPad. And because Apple the quick toggle to turn off Bluetooth only works until the next day. So I almost exclusively use the jack on my iPad and I'm mad they got away with removing it on the tablets and all the Android OEMs followed through (except Samsung).
I bought a phone but the jack was busted and doesn't have two bits connected in DAC. It sounds horrendous. Compressor kind of helps. I use it once per 3 months. Usually when my headphones are on low battery and I forgot to charge them.
On my next phone I will propably get an externall DAC.
P.S Playing patapon over the bluetooth is impossible. The delay is too big. Over the wire there wasn't any problem.
I use bluetooth when I'm out and wired when I'm home
I probably would if I had one. I used it all the time on the last phone I had that did have it.
I don’t have a headphone jack and don’t miss it. I also don’t do much of anything on my phone though. I have a laptop for most things.
I use it, I have some very nice ear monitors from an old job. I also hate throwaway crap. If I have to I can solder a new cable on. Wireless headphones are extremely difficult to fix.
All my headphones are wired so daily. I have a dongle for an iPad I use frequently and it works fine but charging it is a drain.
I use it every day so for me is still a big must have. I also use it for 8 hours straight at work
Me, at least once a week
I refused to get a phone without one for quite a long while and finally caved. I haven't used wired headphones in years but I hate that there isn't the option anymore as a default.
A very simple I used it all the time until I got wireless earphones. It's bizarre to think people just forget that headphones can be expensive so people still have wired ones
Well I do almost daily
I do
I use wired headphones in bed, listening to podcast and whatnot. Easier to just yank out and throw away when falling asleep. I use lightning headphones right now..
I bought nice fancy wireless earbuds once, and lost one of them like 2 weeks in when I fell to river with bicycle. Maybe it's a 1 in a million case, but showed a good reason to not have wireless buds
I definitely used it when I had it on my previous phone. These days though… bluetooth headphones are good enough for me for calls, podcasts and YouTube. So I just use those.
Every day, I have an app that connects the audio of my pc to my phone through wifi and using bluetooth would just make the whole setup unusable for calls + wifi has better range and audio quality than bluetooth. The whole setup is PC->Ethernet->Router->wifi->Phone for ~30 ms of latency and the app is soundwire.
The one time I missed it was when I was trying to sell a subwoofer which only has RCA inputs and I had to use my laptop top prove it worked to potential buyers. Other than that, I use Bluetooth exclusively.
