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Phones on Verizon with headphone jack? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! I have been trying to find a more modern phone with a headphone jack that functions on Verizon in the US. I'm still rocking the Samsung Note 8 and while it's been a good phone, it's REALLY showing its age lately and I'm trying to upgrade.

I really like having cheap, easy headphones that don't need a charge and that means I need a headphone jack. But every single phone with decent specs I've found either doesn't have a headphone jack or doesn't work with Verizon.

I was hoping you could point me in the right direction?

Also, I'm sorry if this is "low quality content", I didn't see any explicit rules against asking for recommendations, so I thought I'd ask.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know if that type of dongle is built into any phone cases? I tried searching for a phone case solution and couldn't find any either.

My primary concern with the dongle is that I'll have it plugged in and my dog jumps up and yanks my cord and damages the charging port on my phone.

It seems so strange to me that there aren't a lot of people like me who really like the headphone jack. I assumed solutions would come out after they started to phase them out of phones, but it seems like that's not happening...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They wouldn’t need a dongle for phone cases, they could easily make room for a headphone jack, but they don’t as a concious decision for a few reasons:

“people don’t want or use them” as “the market” has “spoken”. In other words, phone manufacturers removed it, the public didn’t revolt, people bought more wireless headphones and other manufacturers followed suit.
less lint in your phone I guess. A few more extra phone features, or capacity or battery life. USB-C truly is the future. Why add a feature that most people won’t use instead of features they will use?

I mean there are many MANY reasons why we would want to keep the jack:

we could actually use the FM receiver that phones are capable of and use the headphone jack as an antenna, as was the case when smart phones started hitting the market.
batteries die and the wireless headphones have batteries. Really kinda silly to have two products that can do what you need with one wire but they no longer can because there are no magic pixies to send over the air from one to the other.