I have a lightning-analog dongle on my phone headphones, that works fine. I have another analog headphones on my iPod classic for walks. The terrible catastrophe of taking out the headphone jack is nothing. There's no situation where I'd be listening to my phone and want to charge it, if it's on the charger I have a computer with speakers.
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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yes, I use the headphone jack on my phone.
I can't abide the idea of paying extra money for a separate device to plug in headphones to use a phone. That's like forcing people to buy a straw to drink their coffee because they're not allowed to drink it from a cup anymore.
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 go wired. I use a pair of Sennheiser HD497 headphones I've had for 20 years. They still sound decent with a USB-C adapter at one end. It gets used daily on the train to work, and at work for zoom calls.
Everything about wireless annoys me. The price. The futzing around to pair it. The constant recharging. Having to "prepare" them before going out. The awful encoding artifacts. Radio interference. Walking around looking like an autistic kid with noise-cancelling earmuffs...
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.