Back in my day phones actually had the ports people wanted.
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But but my new phone is 3 microns thinner!
Sure we lost all the ports people actually needed, but 3 microns man!
3 microns thinner and 5 cm longer! oh you want to fit your phone in your pocket comfortably? how about you go fuck yourself
I'm in! Here's my wheelbarrow of cash!
But but my new phone is 3 microns thinner!
If only. My Galaxy S8 from 2018 had a 3.5mm socket and it was thinner than my current iPhone 16e.
Yes but now you can also have 17 camera lenses bulging out the back!
Using mine right this very moment.
get a 30 dollar dac. small and sounds much better, and its shielded.
There is nothing that will ever be as good as the LG V20 was.
Built in high-end DAC, removable battery, and the fucker came apart in 16 Phillips head screws.
ir blaster! i still have a v20 with lineage OS but it is sluggish.
Does the dac perform well with lineage? I’m contemplating getting one as a music player
my headphone port is really dirty so i haven't used it much like that by that point.
but the DAC settings are there!
"Bro, look at this concept art of a cyborg girl listening to music with wireless earbuds! Wouldn't it be cool if you could have the same technology real life? Bro, just stop being a Luddite for two seconds, having to charge a second device is not a big inconvenience for looking like the future!"
I refuse to get a phone without a headphone jack. Mostly because I know I'm inevitably going to lose my headphones, forget to charge them, forget them in my trouser pockets that will go in the wash. The latter has happened at least a couple of times with my current headphones and they still work just fine. Try that with your Bluetooth pair and let me know how it goes.
I just got a USB DAC for $12. If also has a type C pass through. It's so small it stays permanently attached to my wired headphones.
It's a fairly complete solution tbh.
My main issue with external DACs is how fast they drain my battery...
I'm still rocking a 7-year-old Galaxy S9+. A few years ago my headphone jack wore out and the gapped hole no longer retains my earbud cable. Since then, I've been using a USB-C adapter, but the combined earbud and charging use is starting to take it's toll and the port is beginning to feel loose. I'm convinced that if I was limited to USB only over the full life of this phone, I would have lost wired headphone and wired charging capability a long time ago. I wish you well with your singular bottleneck port.
My Bluetooth bone induction headphones survived a month in the bottom of a dishwasher.
As soon as you stop having a cord get caught on everything in your life and get used to pausing/playing with a tap to the ear it all clicks.
But yea the raycon/airpod models don't appeal to me.
Just run the wire through your shirt and they never catch and you have the added bonus of your shirt catching earbuds that fall out. Not only that, but your phone doesn't need to be charged halfway through the day.
When I used wireless headphones, either my phone or headphones would die in the middle of a shift, even with my phone at 100% at shift start. With wired headphones, I'd still have 30-40% battery left even after long 10-12 hour shifts. Wireless just aren't worth the hassle between battery draining and running around looking where they roll after falling out of your ear.
ITT: Apple customers think everyone is as bad at purchasing decisions as they are.
Still my criterion when looking to buy a phone.
My phone still has an aux jack : humble brag:
It's a pixel 3a from at least 6 years ago :opposite of a humble brag:
...I actually love the shape and function of this phone. I only wish it had security updates, and didn't have Google.
Pixel 4a here. Great phone, just in desperate need of a battery replacement. Checking ifixit the risk of breaking the display while opening the phone seems quite high :/
Yes, I spent years breaking the screen of this phone and eventually replacing it. I've finally got a screen protector and it's been great... But the screen will almost certainly crack when you remove it. Bummer about the extra cost.
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I still have one in my phone, and external SD card storage too. Another thing that they want gone (cloud storage agenda).
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Sony Xperias have 3.5mm jacks again. A few of them are also supported by LineageOS and Sailfish OS, so you're not necessarily stuck in the Google ecosystem.
They also have an SD card slot for those who feel the onboard storage isn't quite enough for their tastes.
I still have one, really don't want to get a new phone that doesn't. I still use my earbuds all the time
A simple couple wires that work without pairing, without drivers, without 3 separate volume controls, and worked on the terribly complicated premise of inserting a plug into a hole. Next thing they'll try and say speakers need a dozen micro wires on a special propriety cable to do what they do better.
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Tell me about it! I still buy IEM's because of their incredible sound, yet I have to use dongle for my main phone. IEM brands have been also producing USB-C outputs, but yet not good IMO.
Lucky that I have an LG-vq40, which has audio jack, so I use it as a audio device.
Thicker phone than my main, yet has audio jack.
Yeah it's sad that LG didn't maintain that niche of high quality DAC jack phones. Also still stuck with my V30...
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