For the crazy people like me who won't let it go
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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nah, it's crazy that phone designers let it go
I mean, I can count how many times I've thought "damn I wish I still had wired headphones" on zero hands.
My complaint has always been that the stupid things need to endlessly be recharged.
I've got some AirPod Pros and they're great... for about 4 hours.
Then you're stopping what you're doing, recharging for half an hour, and then you're good for uh, another 3 hours because that wasn't a full charge.
And after the 2nd or 3rd time you've done that, your case is dead and you get to throw everything on a charger for a couple of hours.
Ooooooooor I can put in my wired headphones, and not give a shit about any of that, because that's not how those work at all.
I suppose most people don't spend most of their day listening to podcasts and audiobooks and thus 4 hours is fine, but good lord is it annoying as crap.
I had a similar problem. If thats your only limiation, check out the audiotechnica ATH-CKS50TW. Really excellent sound quality, the headphones themselves have 12hrs continuous use and the headphone case holds 24hrs of charge. Has full noise cancelling, and the headphones can be used independently of one another like airpods.
I can wear them on the bus to work, all day at work, and then on the ride home and still have an hour or two of charge left over before I have to put them back in their case.
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I've never really understood the argument against headphone jacks. I can still use Bluetooth headphones with my phone. I can also use wired headphones and aux cables on my phone. Why would you want less features
I'd be fine if they gave us another USB C port, but inability to listen and charge the phone at the same time without using Bluetooth (which also needs to be charged) grinds my gears.
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I'm not arguing against it, just not particularly arguing for it. Out of all the removed features, I'd want the IR blaster back. I can't do that with Bluetooth.
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Must be nice to either accept the objectively worse sound quality of wireless headphones, or be wealthy enough to afford a product that sounds almost as good as the wired version does for ten times the price and just not care about it getting stolen.
I care a moderate amount about audio quality, but my bigger gripes with Bluetooth generally involve the latency and inconvenience of switching devices (even with multipoint).
IDK about you, but in the environments where I'd use headphones with my phone are not environments where I'm capable of noticing the audio difference between bluetooth and wired.
Ten times is an extreme exaggeration unless you're really at the bottom end of earbuds. Decent quality bluetooth headphones aren't that much more expensive.
If I cared that much about audio quality, I wouldn't be listening to music on my phone anyway.
I'm not sure which product you're referring to that's ten times the price. You can get quality monitors for around $200. I don't know of any Bluetooth headphones that are going to match that quality at any price, but you can get close enough for the majority of purposes in the same price range. The biggest issue will be the Bluetooth audio codec and the wireless link itself (signal strength and latency), not the sound reproduction quality.
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I can. Every time I forget to recharge my wireless headphones case.
Damn, I'd need like 100 hands to count those times myself. To each their own?
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I dunno, how about the horrible privacy practices of most cars nowadays? Bluetooth allows connection, sure. It also allows data to go between the device and the car. An aux jack can't do that.
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It's not us who are crazy!
It's not crazy to want to keep using your excellent wired headphones and not rely on battery powered bullshit
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Problem is finding one and an unlocked bootloader so you can get rid of all the Google crap.
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I'm satisfied with my https://moondroplab.com/en/products/miad01
It's got two jacks!
This one has TWO headphone ports!
- I love the official brochure for the camera: "It's not good but it works".
Edit: Damn you, you edited the thing i said while i was writing it. :D
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No mention of the DAC quality of any of the models. Iβd hope the Sony one is decent.
I got the Xperia 1 VI, the headphone port seriously lacks power. It's like half of what i'd expect from a phone. They might have bent a knee to some EU regulation. All my older cheaper phones could drive my larger cans, this one doesn't leave much headroom.
Sony
Can't trust them ever again. Had an XZ Premium, and they took away Miracast in an update.
And I'm still not over them taking away Linux support on the PS3....
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Now do one for phones that still have a microsd slot
Sony has both! I'm rocking a 1tb SD card at the moment that I swap into my drone and laptop for quick file transfer and it's amazing.
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Which ones have 1/4" jacks?
Some people just can't be pleased, lol
Would that be for a direct input from an instrument, say?
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I would love buying a Sony Xperia if it had a better update policy and wasn't that expensive
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I'm still using a Samsung S10e and its starting to show signs of wear, but I honestly don't like any of the replacements I've seen that are under $1000 and I don't want to spend that much on a phone. And unfortunately it looks hard to find older versions too.
I tried looking into old version of the Asus ROG or Red Magic phones that still performed better than my S10e but even those were still so pricy.
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Still mostly loving my cheap Motorola g84. Rarely use the headphone jack but it's there. The stereo speakers in it are pretty good.
Biggest gripe is it kills Facebook messenger in the background no matter what you do. WhatsApp unaffected though.
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I have a Samsung xcover 6 pro. It has the jack + 2 sims + 1 microsd + removable battery
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Yeah.. a headphone jack is nice for charging and listening at the same time, but I'll say it, the 10$ usb-c apple dongle does the job just fine and covers 99% of use cases. Plus it can also be used on devices with shitty DACs because the dongle is essentially one and it's pretty good as well
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the Sony would be the perfect phone if it was rootable, in the usa, and was a pixel.
I want to throw Unihertz a shout-out. I only have the JellyPhone for its novelty, but as far as devices go, it does all the things an Android phone should, even with the silly form factor. It being stock Android is a big plus as well
I canβt necessarily speak for their other phones, but if the build quality is the same, I really like what theyβre doing.
My phone doesn't have a headphone jack but has an FM radio. It took me ages to 1) realise I needed a pass through cable without a DAC and 2) find a pass-through cable without a DAC.
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The Moto G Power 5g 2024 has been a great phone for me. Hard to find a phone with all the features but a headphone jack as well.
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