Would you buy a phone without a headphone jack?

Would you buy a phone without a headphone jack?

No

Sure. I have tinnitus so I don't really enjoy music anymore. In the past it would've been a deal breaker, so those with healthy bodies probably wouldn't want one.

Haven't played music off any of my phones ever in over ten years. Not going to start anytime soon. The thought of carrying headphones/earbuds around with my phone makes me cringe.

maybe if it was 2004, sure

the smartphone's multi-purpose ability was (and still is) its main selling point
I just can't get rid of a jack I still need

I just bought one for my dad.
My father is old and needs a hearing aid.
He got one where each aid has a bluetooth receiver so you can take calls, listen to music etc through the hearing aid.
Android doesn't support this, apple does.

Wearing headphones is awkward for him so the headphone jack is not relevant.

But if the phone was for me? probably not.
Dongles belong in the past, it doesn't matter that they give them away for free.

I'll just buy bluetooth headphones. If I can waste $1000+ on a phone surely I can spend an extra $150 and buy a decent set of headphones.

No
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No.

FPBP

Why would it make you cringe?

>Repair phones (mobo, screen, cameras, etc)

>#1 thing I receive is not broken screens, but headphone jacks stuck in port.

Its good business for me.

Also I'm pretty sure this phone here used to belong to a paranoid fa/g/got

I don't want to, but if every phone is gonna be like that what am I supposed to do?
My nexus 6 is already acting up, yet I see no phone to replace it with (maybe the SE? but it's so tiny and I have giant troll hands).

No

Yea, $1000 device to listen to fucking lossy codecs that goes trought bluetooth, you must trully hate sound.

i don't really use headphones unless i'm travelling which is not a lot.
dongle is acceptable for that reason.

>android doesn't support this
That's a bit missleading way of wording. Maybe your fathers hearing aid doesn't support Android, but others do. My father had a Siemens hearing aid and had it connected to his S4.

i own one, moto z. i don't care, i use single set of headphones and i already forgot about the 'problem'. 3.5 to usb is connected to headphones, i just plug it in

it's high pitched noise that you hear all the time? i have it too, it's only a bother in some cases when this one exact frequency i'm allergic to is being played and then i hear some kind of high pitched echo right after that. i dunno how wide spectrum of the problem is, but i wouldn't say i can't enjoy the music.

everyone bitches about me not liking loud music on small home partied though, this one is annoying

No

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Everyone pack up all your weeaboo shit and return to the catalog. This thread is over and there's nothing left to see here.

Cursed with tinnitus as well, I like my music, but I hate when people question me when I say the music is to loud for me and it fucking hurts, and have to describe to them that I hear a loud high pitch 24/7 that feels like a dagger in my ears.

> it's only a bother in some cases when this one exact frequency i'm allergic to

Allergy is an auto-immune response. You can't have auto-immune response to anything non-chemical. Your immune system does not react to sound frequencies as far as we know.

If you get allergic reactions to certain sounds then it's likely a nocebo effect and 100% psychological. On the other hand you might have some frequencies of sound that you are sensitive to that causes a high-pitched noise. But that is not an allergy.

If its a $100-200 range device that is kept for a spare sure, but for $800+ "flagship" having to make compromise is just ludicrous. Dongles are a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place.

Can someone tell me where is the fucking DAC in this shit?
Is it in the phone and only sends signal through the port when a dongle or converter is plugged? Or is it a fucking piece of shit jammed inside the dongle itself?

Also why bluetooth headphones/earpiece are crap.

Doesn't bother me. Not a deal breaker.

Dongles serve as external dacs now. Signals are purely digital with the exception of first generation USB C devices.

I actually don't use the 3.5mm port on my phone anymore since I got a PMP, but I still think it's bullshit modern phones are getting rid of it. They don't impede waterproofing and they don't do anything with the free space they get, so I don't understand why they do it.

i havent used earphones in years. and my current phone doesn't have a jack.

If you're going to remove the headphone jack then you need to replace it with something better to justify it. Such as a 2nd SD card slot, a bigger battery, or a faster SoC.

well I don't use headphones so I'd be okay with it

Yes, my headphones and audio standards are too good for whatever arbitrary SoC DAC/amp you can put on some phone.

What a sad example of consumerist reasoning.

whats it like being poor

I'm not the one who spent his salary on a piece of varying types of plastic.

>headphone jack

I think there's a museum around me where you can see one in person.

same here and after 5 years sounds like a fucking tractor engine, I don't really give a shit about the headphone jack because Ill never gonna use it either

Oh absolutely.
I'll never buy a smartphone though.

Only if they included wireless earbuds in the box

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No
Bluetooth is absolute shit

My headphone jack is USB-C.

I guess you drive an electric car too, right? And you also us VR headset, not monitors, right?

you know you have to charge your bluetooth headphones every 3 hours, right?

Fuck no. Why would I buy a phone that needlessly removed features?

I was waiting for the pixel 2 to see what they were doing. Never buying that garbage.

Never. I'll start using chink offbrand phones if I have to. But I won't give up the jack

FEUER FREI

>consumer electronics are "varying types of plastic"

Hearty chuckle, my friend. Well memed.

Specifically smartphones past around 2010, yes.

Oh hello fellow time traveller. Which year are you from? 2004, right?

They actually have BT headphones that last for 24hrs of playing music these days.

no

this

Not in a milion years . 3,5 mm or go home

Nope

digital headphones > analog headphones

Out somewhere...
>hey man, I forgot my headphones, can I borrow yours?
>sure, here ya go
>ahh fuck, nevermind, I forgot my dongle on my other headphones

Yeah... No.

Out somewhere...
>hey man, I forgot my headphones, can I borrow yours?
>sure, here ya go
>what's this string hanging from it?
>that's the wire, to plug it onto your headphone jack
>haha my WHAT?
>headphone jack. Look on the top of your Walkman
>I'm using a smartphone. It has Bluetooth.
>{brain explodes}

Nope

Yep. Already did. I have an iPhone 7. And you know what? I don't give a fuck. Even before, when I did have a headphone jack, I almost never used it. Most of my listening was done through via Bluetooth in my car.

In February, I got myself a pair of AirPods, and while they're not the best-sounding headphones I've ever heard, they *are* the best-sounding pair of headphones I've ever heard that fit in a pants pocket without getting all tangled up in shit. They're really pretty good, in terms of battery life and features, and having them means practically never worrying about whether you have a fucking headphone jack or not.

AirPods, man. They fit neatly into that useless little change pocket on a pair of jeans, and you'll never snag your keys on 'em.

Basically this. I charge mine 1-2 times a week. Recently, while I was poopsocking an audiobook with a one-ear configuration, I managed to run down an AirPod (after about 4 hours). So I put it back into the charging case, removed the other one, put it into the other ear, and continued listening. Wow, it's fucking nothing.

If all manufacturers decide to remove it, then i will have to buy a phone without one but currently sony seems to keep the jack, and contrary to most people, I like their design language. They are said to switch to a different design language called mirai or some shit in 2018 and i am actually pretty worried that they may drop the jack in the precess. I hope the highly conservative nature of japan would take over and they keep the jack forever.

That's a jack that will deteriorate twice as fast. Also you can't charge and listen at the same time.

USB audio in my experience is a fucking mess
>turn on my headphones to listen to something on my phone
>autoconnects to my laptop downstairs
>turn them on to listen to something on my laptop
>now it autoconnects to my fucking phone

I mean bluetooth audio, fuck

And this is why AirPods/BeatsX/Solo 3 exist. The whole point is that it can effectively maintain multiple pairings at a time. Granted, it only works with MacOS and iOS-based clients (including Watches and AppleTVs), but still, that's the idea.

I sincerely hope the Bluetooth standard improves to include this feature in the future. It's something that should be available to everybody.

no

No, I use my phone to play music in the car. I also use earbuds to make calls.

Autism the post

And I refuse to listen to my music over Bluetooth anymore. I'm not an autistic audiophile but I can tell the difference between Bluetooth and an aux cord on some songs.

sure, bluetooth headphones can play 256 AAC nowadays and battery life is good enough for a whole shift

It's not the codec that's the problem, it's the fact that a DAC in your $300 smartphone is almost always gonna be better than the DAC in your random $50 headset. That's the bottleneck in Bluetooth audio quality imo.

Only when bluetooth headphones are horifically overpriced.

Right now, $220 maple pesos plus tax is too much to risk on something so easily lost or broken.

*aren't

I only buy phones with BNC connectors.

it depends mostly on your preferred sound signature. the more pricey bluetooth headphones, like v-moda's for example, aren't cheaping out on the DAC. some DACs (like in my iPhone) have a distinctly cold and calculating signature which some may regard as high quality but others, like me, may regard as harsh to the ears. meanwhile i could go buy $300 bluetooth headphones and find that the DAC they chose is warmer and thus better suited for me.

EQ can offset the sound signature to some extent but it's not fully effective.

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my man...

every post in this thread trying to justify the purchase of a phone with no headphone jack is just some idiot apple shill trying to get their sheckles for the day.

In 2004 a good number of phones had mp3 players on them. Pic related, I had this one myself.

My HTC U11's included USB-C headphones are pretty nice. Too bad there's few other good USB-C headphones available at a low price, but for now, a dongle is good enough.

sure, I don't use the 3.5mm jack, only rarely in the car, but I have bluetooth for that

>owning a second phone as a "spare"
Do brainless actually do this? In some decade and a half of owning mobile phones I've never lost one once. Worst damage was a cracked screen, still usable.

Nah. I learnt my lesson with the Sony Ericsson Walkman phones.

Isn't it bizarre Apple can literally take away something as commonplace as a headphone jack and people not only accept it, but rush to defend it?

>android
You're already using an offbrand chink phone, friendo.

Maybe a few years ago I'd call it bizarre. As time passes I just realized they're regular retards.

All that means is the DAC is in the headphones not the phone. Unless you have a truly garbage phone or truly great headphones, that's likely a downgrade in audio quality.

That being said I don't give a shit, I listen to CDs, shit's cheap and sounds great. If I'm not in my hole or my car or my office why would I be listening to music anyway

>my hole
Fuck, I'll go with it.

>bluetooth in car
>bluetooth headphones
>bluetooth home speaker system

If you're not poor not having a headphone jack isn't a problem.

I don't even really use my headphone jack and I wouldn't

No and i wouldn't buy a phone without a sd card slot.

fpbp

Fuck anyone defending this shit!

as did I with some of my old Samsung phones. Couldn't charge the phone and listen to headphones at the same time because of this bullshit.

>directly plug my phone into all three because i prefer the audio quality
If you're not an earlet then not having a headphone jack is a problem.

Name one real reason to remove the headphone jack from a phone.

Daily reminder that the headphone jack is why phones are so thick.

Because I have a separate music player.

>I'm an enlightened earGAR who listens to a 2c DAC that some korean company slapped into a phone because it was the cheapest one they could get

why does that even matter? It doesn't impact the functionality of the phone one bit.

>apple removes headphone jack
>proceeds to make iphone 7 thicker than 6s
what did they mean by this?