Still my criterion when looking to buy a phone.
Any luck? Or have you been using a 10year old phone because the stupid phone manufacturers think following Apple is a good idea
The Samsung Galaxy A15 5G has an audio jack and is somewhat recent. It’s a budget phone, though. The spec’s aren’t the best, but the price point is nice. If you wanted to listen to flac over wired headphones, that would work well.
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 :/
I’m going to do what I do in every thread mentioning a headphone jack: Say I don’t mind Bluetooth and get downvoted.
BT is good, but anything wired is (and always will be) better and more reliable while being a little less convenient (with some exceptions)
Unless I’m paying for $1600 audio cables my noise-damaged ears can’t tell the difference and I like that I don’t rip things out of them.
audio cables don’t matter beyond the $5 range. what you’re experiencing with expensive cables is placebo in that case. for me the annoyances with bluetooth are:
- lag
- a/v resync
- high pitched hiss
- having to keep headphones that used to just plug into the phone charged
- the fact that bluetooth headphones degrade over time, giving them less longevity than wired
- interference
i understand there are people in this thread that don’t miss headphone jacks, but to act like bluetooth is flat superior is to ignore that bluetooth has genuine downsides that just a wire doesn’t
I have never had a port fail. Were iPods really that low quality? I use them just about every day
More reliable until the port fails.
And so can BT
Tbh i didn’t have any problems with 3.5mm. It always worked for me (even when used in odd ways and angles).
To be clear. I actually like BT and the ways it opens in terms of various accessories, but BT has its drawbacks while analog ports. That’s why i would prefer to have both BT and physical port (in case of BT failing)
I’ve never had a 3.5 fail, are you sure it’s not just getting clogged with dirt or something?
I have a genuine issue that I’d love to get your ideas on.
When I am walking around with my bluetooth headphones in what I assume are places with lots of other signals, the audio goes to complete shit as if I’m on a bumpy road in a car listening to a super skippy CD.
How can I avoid that? It works perfectly when I’m on a bus or at home…
It depends. Had that issue a while back, personally found it was only when I was connected to 2.4 ghz wifi, which is the same frequency as Bluetooth. I haven’t really had the issue on my current phone (except in areas where it’s really windy), but it does have Bluetooth 5.0 so that might be part of it because it’s a massive upgrade from Bluetooth prior.
Every argument I have ever heard boils down to “in my specific use-case because of X Y Z and Purple, all the benefits of wired are irrelevant” and the people espousing such opinions don’t at all take into consideration that other people exists and their specific use-case is not at all widely experienced.
“My tinnitus means I can’t distinguish high tones well” okay buddy, but how many other people enjoy distinct highs?
“I move around too much so Bluetooth is the only practical solution” okay my friend, but many people either don’t have that problem, or they’ve found a solution.
The headphone jack of my phone is still virgin.
I regret buying one without it.
I bought pixel 6a, mainly for graphene os but didn’t install it because I wouldn’t be able to use Google pay. My main things why I regret getting it is that there’s no headphone jack and no SD card slot. Thought it wouldn’t be that bad but… It is that bad. Next time I’m getting a phone once this goes bad I’m definitely getting headphone jack and SD card slot.
Genuine question. What do you use the SD card slot for? I havent needed one in like 15+ years at least. But I don’t do a lot on my phone.
I imagine it makes keeping things like photos super easy, even if a phone stops working entirely.
Like /u/Monstrosity already said, photos is great use. Dealing with it rn, want to transfer bunch of my pics to my pc and it takes forever and fails a lot trying to do it over cable so just putting it on SD card and then just plug the SD card into the PC is way easier. Solved it by installing sync thing so that works for now. I also like to store all my music locally so I don’t have to worry about bad signal or anything like that, also some movie and books for when bored waiting or something. I definitely love having stuff locally plus it’s just much cheaper large storage than getting a phone with bigger internal memory. So yeah there’s tons of uses why you would want an SD card. Makes lots of things easier and easily transferable. Same with headphone jack, don’t have to deal with connecting stuff guessing the pairing code if it’s one or the other default one. Just plug it in and done. Also don’t know how it is with modern phones but you can listen to radio using the headphones as anténa so definitely another use for someone that would want that.
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.
Man, what are you driving that you need headphones, all my cars have built in stereos…
I think it may have been a joke ;)
The “driver” is a part of a speaker that actually makes the physical motion that makes the sound. So all speakers do have drivers haha
