I love when phones place the usb on the top. I have no idea why the bottom is standard, nobody uses docks anymore.
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I like having it on top for being able to set my phone up against something still, but if itβs in my pocket I want the top of my phone down so I take it out itβs right, which means the bottom Jack works better. So ideally Iβd want both
All phones I've had, had the jack on the bottom where it's in the way of me holding the phone or placing the phone on something. I always wondered why it's not just at the top.
BTW just got a new phone (Oneplus) and I'm glad to have found one that has a jack at all
I always wondered why it's not just at the top.
Couple reasons:
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The charger port is also on the bottom, and if you have the phone plugged in and also feeding audio through an audio cable, you'd presumably want the wires to go the same way.
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Usually people put their phones into their pockets upside down, since it will be the right way up when you pull it back out without having to reorient it in your hand. In older, more innocent days when we all listened to music with wired headphones, the port would be facing out of your pocket, so you could keep it wired in without fumbling to flip the phone the other way around when you take it back out to use it.
Top right.
It's best place when holding it in landscape mode.
Ever since I've gotten some decent noise cancelling Bluetooth headphones, I don't really care where the headphone jack is or even if there is one. It happened way too many times that the cable got snagged on something and yanked the buds out of my ears, and I'm well past the age where I had the cable under my shirt and the earbuds dangling in front of me all the time. Especially when running or otherwise exercising, I don't miss the cable one tiny bit.
bottom, so I can charge it and have headphones plugged in at the same time while it's in my pocket.
I had the last generation iPod nano, and none of the clip-on cases I could find would put it upside down like the way I preferred my phone so I cut it with an exacto knife to reverse it
Anywhere but the bottom half of the phone. I hate that the charging port is on the bottom. Itβs in the way when I need to use my phone while charging.
What privacy respecting phone are you using that also has a headphone jack? If it has an sd card slot too I'll think I've gone back a decade
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Honestly it doesn't really matter to me. Depending on whether it's on the top or bottom I'll just put my phone in my pocket to make it point upward when I use it. I tend to use Bluetooth anyway most of the time, so the headphone jack is mostly there as backup and for connecting other audio devices at parties etc.
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