I never use my headphone jack. I don't care if my next phone has one. Having wires attached to my phone is enormously inconvenient to me. Plus I have a thing where I need to be able to hear what's going on around me, so I bought some Bose sunglasses and put prescription lenses in them. I love them. They definitely sacrifice on the bass, but I can wear them at work and still hear if someone knocks on my door or starts talking to me. They last about 5 or 6 hours and charge pretty quickly. I hardly ever have to charge them more than once per night.
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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Have to be honest. I do a bit of music producing, so I am a little bit of a snob about quality.
But on a phone, on the go, the convenience of bluetooth and not having to be tethered to anything beats the obvious downsides for me.
I use proper equipment when I want to listen in high quality and properly.
So, I haven’t had a jack input in a long time, and have missed it exactly zero times so far. But can really well understand the need for it if phone’s often with you on the go and you don’t often sit down in a specific listening spot at home. And probably any other reasons are equally understandable. I think I am the weird one here.
I don't anymore. I have a pair of Pixel Buds which I love for most situations. When I want low latency or high quality, I can plug my over ear BT headphones into my phone via USB-C. Sound is phenomenal.
When I use IEMs I use an Apple USB-C to 3.5.mm dongle for my Pixel. Weirdly good value ngl. Nowadays I do have a pair of Galaxy Buds 2 Pro as well. I use them more than wired headphones at this point. So while a headphone jack would still be nice, to me it's not that necessary anymore.
I thought I'd miss not having a headphone jack but I don't. I don't miss getting the wires caught on things and yanking out of my ears.
People will always be very vocal about things like this but I'd bet the vast majority of people don't care. It's a bit like smaller phones, I'm firmly in the "I need a smaller phone" camp but it seems like the market doesn't want one and most people prefer the big phones we have today.
I would if I had one, I use a lightning adapter with wired headphones
I have an older car, and I use the aux cord and headphone jack every day.
Current phone: Never, because it doesn't have one.
Last phone: Also never, because I had decent Bluetooth headphones.
Phone before that: All the time, but broke several sets of earbuds from snagging on things and getting frayed.
Genuinely can't be arsed to wear a piece of wire down my clothes like I'm a small child with some fucking mittens on a string. Could not give two fucks about the 3.5mm jack dying out.
Curious why mods don't remove posts like this? Seems like some cleanup is needed on this Com.