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Alternatively, if your current phone doesn't have a headphone jack, do you wish it did?

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[โ€“] Mothra@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Yes I need, I use more the jack headphones than my Bluetooth ones. If I had to buy a phone this feature would come into consideration, with a heavy weight

[โ€“] Allan8795@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I only buy phones with headphone jack. But the way things are going,these greedy manufacturers will sooner or later make it obsolete. Just like the new shitty trend of selling phone without charger in the box.

[โ€“] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As someone who currently uses headphones throughout pretty much all his free time, yes I use wired whenever possible and my current phone was one I got because of the headphone jack. Last thing I want is to have to stop listening to whatever I'm listening to all because my bluetooth headphones need a charge.

Currently I'm stuck with a pair of shitty dollar store headphones, but they are so much better than the wireless ones I have because of just how long I can enjoy music, videos, etcetera, without needing to worry when my headphone battery needs charged. A headphone jack is extremely important to me.

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[โ€“] flashgnash@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

My phone doesn't have a headphone jack but even before they started disappearing I rarely used them anyway, much prefer wireless

I'm of the probably unpopular opinion around here that the less cables and IO I need the better, will often transfer large files over lan on WiFi rather than plug in because often in the time I've found a cable, plugged in, set the right USB mode, found the file on my phone's filesystem and transferred it the slightly longer wireless transfer would be done

Have a ThinkPad which has a ton of IO, but I think a couple thunderbolt/PD ports, a usb port and maybe an ethernet port if you do lots of fiddling with networking are plenty

Oh micro SD on the inside of phones too someone else made a point about that but that's more an upgradability/maintainability thing imo

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[โ€“] s20@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I strongly prefer there to be a port. I mostly use Bluetooth headsets, but sometimes your battery runs out, or you really want to use your super nice plug-in noise canceling headphones. It's better to have the option.

[โ€“] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

No, but I do use a VPN which that site doesn't allow.

[โ€“] drathvedro@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd rather ditch the phone entirely than switch to one without a headphone jack. Too long to explain, but I have a thing against wireless, a thing against corporations making decisions for me, and a thing against phones in general.

[โ€“] Michal@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Wireless are more convenient for most use cases. I like the compactness of wireless earbuds, no tangled wires, and the charging case. I can even use just one bud at a time.

However, wired headphones have some advantages in rare use cases that wireless can't handle yet:

  • connecting two headsets at once so 2 people han watch a movie on a plane. Bluetooth can stream sound to only one device at a time (at least on android). With Jack you can just use a splitter
  • switching between devices easily. Just unplug and plug where you want it. With Bluetooth you have disconnect and reconnect.
  • you can easily plug it into aux without any pairing process, just plug and play. With rental cars i noticed the device memory is often full and i have to remove a device before pairing. Not as seamless as audio jack for once off uses.

I don't mind missing audio jack, but at least make usb c dongles interchangeable. Iirc you can't use the same dongles on samsung and Pixel device. I ordered one that did not work.

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Normally i use bluetooth earphones, but sometimes i use normal headphones so yes.

[โ€“] TheControlled@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

My wired earbuds were top of the line Japanese imports with custom cables and a nice USB-C DAC as well. Sounds like sex feels.

No way I'll give up my headphone jack... Even though I kinda had to. I made a better one!

[โ€“] spez_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes. Wireless never works. Bluetooth is proprietary bs

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[โ€“] Nougat@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

iPod Shuffle had only one jack - a combination headphone/charging/syncing jack. If you're only going to have one jack, why not that one?

[โ€“] AxleGrinder@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Heck yeah, rocking the Sony Xperia with the headphone jack as a big selling point for me, alongside the lack of notch etc. I use it most days with my Apple ear buds coupled with wavelet auto eq. Genuinely sound great and subtle enough to feel comfortable with them in public. I have a pair of wh1000-xm3s In my bag but I go for them far less often.

[โ€“] littlecolt@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My car doesn't have Bluetooth but does have an aux jack. I use my headphone jack on my phone every day I drive

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[โ€“] neo2478@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Until reading this question, I completely forgot head phone jacks used to be a thing in phones. In love my first gen AirPods and JBL over the ear wireless headphones. The battery lasts forever, and they easily switch between my devices.

I love not having cords!

In my car I just connect with wireless CarPlay and charge wirelessly as well.

[โ€“] AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

Yes yes two thousand times yes, Why would I have to worry about charging one more device if a cable can deliver ten times the quality at the same price?

I would probably prefer having a headphone jack. I am using wireless buds though. The problem with them is the price. While you can get decent wired earbuds for around $100 or even slightly less you have to pay at least $300 for decent wireless ones. Seriously I tried a few, but they all sounded like absolute garbage. It's probably a cheap DAC in all of them combined with even less available space due to batteries and other electronics.

Another downside is that you can only use them for like 5 hours at a time. It is fine most of the time, but on long train rides I hit the limitation a few times.

Overall I am happy with the wireless ones, they are convenient, but it is really expensive to replace them and you have fewer choices, so having wired headsets as an option would be great.

I never tried wireless Bluetooth interfaces though and I suspect they might be better than the inbuilt jack of phones which would make them obsolete in my opinion.

I use it, and would pick it over not having one for sure. It's not the end of the world for me. I can use wired head phones till the foam falls apart, and even then you can get new muffs, but bluetooth ones just die on me at some point and the pain of repair is pretty high compared to how much I care.

[โ€“] root@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

You can also get 90 degree angled headphone plugs which don't stick out much at all. Mskes me less worried when i have my phone in my pocket and I'm walking around.

As for 90 degree usb-c headphone adapters... nowhere to be found.

[โ€“] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] weew@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I greatly prefer it. Basically all high quality headphones are wired only... and even an equivalent wireless headphone is more expensive and more stuff to carry (gotta carry those charging cases with them). Just give me my damn port.

[โ€“] mkhopper@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, and I don't miss it at all.
I've used BT headphones even when my last two devices had jacks and wouldn't want to go back.
Prior to that, I can't count the number of times I would snag the wires on something or get them tangled in some way.

Now I use my BT bone conduction headphones everywhere.

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[โ€“] Carter@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd like to have a headphone jack but I'm not that bothered either way. USB C dongles are cheap and I just leave it attached to my headphones.

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[โ€“] spauldo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I'd like one, sure.

It's not a deal breaker either way. I have a USB dongle with a headphone jack so it's not a big deal.

I absolutely want wired headphones, though. One less set of batteries to worry about, especially when traveling internationally.

[โ€“] IjonTichy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Nice try, Samsung

[โ€“] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Sorry, no VPN voting allowed

[โ€“] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Have one, use it all the time.

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