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No headphone jack on the newer pixels.
Yeah, that's a fair complaint for sure. I'm using a pixel 4a with a headphone jack and I can't imagine living without one. I guess I'm not sure what phone I'll get next.
I just got a Pixel 8 and I'm annoyed there's no headphone jack. I have BT headphones as well, but my nice, non-BT headphones won't work.
You can get a dongle though, so that's an option.
Yeah, the headphone jack thing has been a major sticking point for me. But it seems like it's becoming increasingly unrealistic to hold that line. Just sucking it up and getting a dongle might be the logical way to go...
See that's an issue.
I came out second in a fight one time on the base, and suffered hearing damage on the one side. Wheee. Wireless phones for me at least are harder to hear on, and speaker phones worse. Battery headphones? No thanks, even if the apple ear pods are fucking magical for ANC on a plane ride or train ride when she sends me hers (I don't even pair them or play music; just light them up for blissful silence). I do find them expensive and disposable, normally, and that's irksome to a former poor kid.
I love that I can use a good-fitting earbud set that plugs into everything I need, and each thing doesn't need its own converter dongle to lose. It's a huge feature for me.