Another good reason to remove the jack.
More products broken out of warranty, more sales.I dropped my phone while it was connected to my laptop charging. My laptop was taken down with it.
Did you try to save it all on the way down and make things worse?
Damn that URL didn’t link, but I think I can imagine what could be worse.
I refuse to spend any money on earbuds that will be immediately lost.
Not a fan of singular earbuds but because my phone didn’t come with a jack I got ones that are basically attached to each other, so they are wireless but attached by a wired between them with a little battery that lasts 10h I’ve grown really fond of them.
No problem of losing them either!
I really like my semi wireless headphones as well. They have like 28 hours of battery life and you can charge them from 0% to 10 hours of playback (or however many percent that is) in 10 minutes. They also have an incredible feature I wish all wireless headphones had. The ability to quickly switch between the last two devices by just pressing a button twice. No need to disconnect them from the device they are already connected too.
I’m terrible at keeping track of things normally but I never lose my wallet or headphones. Seems like maybe a you problem.
remind me, was the S10 the last Samsung phone that didn’t explode or literally fall apart in your hands?
No. That’s (almost) all Samsung devices. They make decent screens and camera sensors though…
Still have this phone but it is getting a bit ragged, really just the battery. Might upgrade to Sony Xperia 1 V or 1 VI soon. Need the headphone jack and microSD slot.
Check out HMD phones. They have the SD slot and the 3.5mm jack as well. They also have partnered with iFixit so that you can replace parts as well.
Unless you are in India.
Their customer service apparently drove a relative of mine to Apple.Also some of the cheaper Nokia ones have a great number of problems:
- SIM card not detected after Restart
- Some bad sensor causing Google Maps to show you facing the wrong direction.
Alright, it’s just 2, but happens enough to make me regret.
Some high end model had its LCD liquidate somehow, without a visible crack and was not covered in warranty.
Looking at the specs of this HMD phone, I would not recommend it. The headphone jack and SD card slot are about all this phone has going for it. It’s underpowered, especially for a phone running Android 14. I guess it wouldn’t be too bad for people who just need the cheapest Android phone they can get.
…There also appears to be a hole in the screen 🙃 (i loathe camera holes and screen “notches”).
Where my LG homies at?
So many people go boomer argument mode over this because they don’t like change, but their anger is clearly misplaced. The 3.5mm is not the king of audio connectors and never was, it’s death could very easily have been a good thing.
Why the fuck didn’t headphone makers start offering USB-C devices once phones pulled this move? My PC mobo from 2017 has a C port that could be used for this, I’m certain computers could have easily adapted (and they’re the way smaller market anyway). Is it just because apple had to be special with their lightning bullshit? If so, they’d better start it up now!
Instead of being able to buy new cans with the wire that my phone uses I have to snag an adapter. Not a BIG deal but this change is over 5 fucking years old, we should have these devices as the norm now to avoid all of the fucking issues we’re currently looking at
Maybe, but than I want two USB-C ports.
Not about being “the king” just about simplicity and sufficiency.
I want ubiqituous immediate connection…we aren’t all maximizers, some of us just want the easiest serviceable & reliable option.
Usb is a carrying digital signals for the most part while headphonea are analog. So you have 2 options:
- Implement some janky non-standard analog audio in some usb alternate mode that will only work with some devices
- Add a digital to analog converter in the plug itself, which is more complex and expensive
Both options prevent you from chanrging while using headphones unless you use a splitter or wireless charging which is not ideal
3.5 mm may not be the king, but it’s extremly simple and fairly robust and has little to no disatvantages except for wireless headphones sales ofc. You don’t have to charge these heqdphones, you don’t have to worry about losing one of them.
Wireless headphonwa have their uses, I doubt they benefit the majority of people tho.
How bout a case
I have this same phone and I like it.
My phone would drop and just detach from the phone jack and still fall, sometimes ruining the headphones in the process. My phone has a case and takes a fall better than my headphones. But it’s also older (Samsung note 8), so there’s that
Why not buy a Sony phone with an earphone jack?
Not only does the Xperia have a headphone jack, it supports aptx for Bluetooth headphones! No matter if you prefer wired or wireless, it’s not skimping on either.
A lot oft phones have aptx, no?
I moved from Galaxy S10 to Xperia 1 V precisely because none of the phones in the Galaxy line support aptx.
Also, there’s aptx, aptx-hd, aptx-LL (low latency), and aptx-adaptive. My headphones support only aptx and aptx-adaptive and I really wanted support for the latter. There’s licensing involved so not all devices support the whole range of aptx standards.
LDAC or bust, homie.
Is it better than aptx-hd?
Edit: aptxhd: 567kbit/a max and ldac 990kbit/s max
Love my AirPods Pro man. No wires, great sound and noise cancellation. I have never had them fall out of my ears, even when working out.
If your earbuds are falling out, clean your ears and your earbuds before you put them in. Either that, or you need tips that fit your ear better. If you have those ear canals that don’t want anything in them, we also now have great (and wireless!) headphones now too.
Wires are really just for those audiophile enthusiasts, people who can’t be bothered charging wireless things, or people who would lose their head if it wasn’t attached.
To each their own, of course. :)
lol, love it when people try to justify purchases that end up as e-waste after a couple/few short years.
The product I’ve had since 2021? Shut the fuck up.
I would never praise these things, but I’ve been using the same pair for 5 years now. Why would they become e-waste so quickly?
They have batteries, batteries do not last long
That’s fair. I’m not exactly testing their endurance, just use them for YouTube and podcasts, so it’s likely they’ve degraded quite a bit without me noticing.
However, a lot of companies dropped headphone jacks, because they could both save a buck on them, make them even more slightly thinner to the point it starts to impact usability, and create a market for 3rd party accessories (wireless head/earphones, converters, etc.).
Umm, you might want to read it again.
Why…?
Cause it said nothing about dropping earphones, it was all about saving phone with audio wire.
Okay? And there are plenty of other people on here talking about their own stories, so why the fuck can’t I talk about mine?
Heroes never goes out of style
I just had to give up my S10…I got a 20…I need my ports
God I miss my S10. It really was a perfect phone. I finally had to let it go when the screen cracked. Replacing it cost more than a refurbished S22 or S23, and I couldn’t justify purchasing another S10, since it will probably fall victim to planned obsolescence soon.
My S10e is cracked but only all over the backplate. Which is also no longer really attached to the phone. I’m driving this thing into the ground.
I still use my s10e every day on my commute with the headphone jack plugged into a radio tuner so I can listen to podcasts
Still using the S9 with only the back and sides cracked. Only put 50€ into replacing the battery and jack. This has got to last until 2027 at least until replaceable batteries hopefully become a thing again.
How do you crack the sides of an s9? It’s metal…
I meant the curved sides of the front screen. The metal is just scratched.
I’m really hoping that Framework release a phone one day, given how good the Framework 16 laptop is.
S9+ still going strong after over 6 years. I dread the day I will need a “new” phone.
I have an old S9 right here on my desk. I cracked the screen, and took it to one of those screen replacement places, and he asked if I had insurance. I told him I didn’t, and he said, wellllllll it’s going to be a lot more expensive than you think to replace this screen.
That wraparound screen they had was basically also the frame of the phone - you’re not so much replacing the screen as you are moving the rest of the components to a new phone body. I wasn’t sold on value of that wraparound screen in the first place; this didn’t improve my opinion of it.
We put a plastic screen protector on it and a new case, and I used it for a few months until we were ready to upgrade phones.
