i miss my phone that also had FM radio built in.
get a 30 dollar dac. small and sounds much better, and its shielded.
There is nothing that will ever be as good as the LG V20 was.
Built in high-end DAC, removable battery, and the fucker came apart in 16 Phillips head screws.
ir blaster! i still have a v20 with lineage OS but it is sluggish.
Does the dac perform well with lineage? I’m contemplating getting one as a music player
Back in my day phones actually had the ports people wanted.
But but my new phone is 3 microns thinner!
Sure we lost all the ports people actually needed, but 3 microns man!
3 microns thinner and 5 cm longer! oh you want to fit your phone in your pocket comfortably? how about you go fuck yourself
I’m in! Here’s my wheelbarrow of cash!
But but my new phone is 3 microns thinner!
If only. My Galaxy S8 from 2018 had a 3.5mm socket and it was thinner than my current iPhone 16e.
Yes but now you can also have 17 camera lenses bulging out the back!
“Bro, look at this concept art of a cyborg girl listening to music with wireless earbuds! Wouldn’t it be cool if you could have the same technology real life? Bro, just stop being a Luddite for two seconds, having to charge a second device is not a big inconvenience for looking like the future!”
Using mine right this very moment.
Tell me about it! I still buy IEM’s because of their incredible sound, yet I have to use dongle for my main phone. IEM brands have been also producing USB-C outputs, but yet not good IMO.
Lucky that I have an LG-vq40, which has audio jack, so I use it as a audio device. Thicker phone than my main, yet has audio jack.Yeah it’s sad that LG didn’t maintain that niche of high quality DAC jack phones. Also still stuck with my V30…
ITT: Apple customers think everyone is as bad at purchasing decisions as they are.
I refuse to get a phone without a headphone jack. Mostly because I know I’m inevitably going to lose my headphones, forget to charge them, forget them in my trouser pockets that will go in the wash. The latter has happened at least a couple of times with my current headphones and they still work just fine. Try that with your Bluetooth pair and let me know how it goes.
I just got a USB DAC for $12. If also has a type C pass through. It’s so small it stays permanently attached to my wired headphones.
It’s a fairly complete solution tbh.
My main issue with external DACs is how fast they drain my battery…
I’m still rocking a 7-year-old Galaxy S9+. A few years ago my headphone jack wore out and the gapped hole no longer retains my earbud cable. Since then, I’ve been using a USB-C adapter, but the combined earbud and charging use is starting to take it’s toll and the port is beginning to feel loose. I’m convinced that if I was limited to USB only over the full life of this phone, I would have lost wired headphone and wired charging capability a long time ago. I wish you well with your singular bottleneck port.
My Bluetooth bone induction headphones survived a month in the bottom of a dishwasher.
As soon as you stop having a cord get caught on everything in your life and get used to pausing/playing with a tap to the ear it all clicks.
But yea the raycon/airpod models don’t appeal to me.
Just run the wire through your shirt and they never catch and you have the added bonus of your shirt catching earbuds that fall out. Not only that, but your phone doesn’t need to be charged halfway through the day.
When I used wireless headphones, either my phone or headphones would die in the middle of a shift, even with my phone at 100% at shift start. With wired headphones, I’d still have 30-40% battery left even after long 10-12 hour shifts. Wireless just aren’t worth the hassle between battery draining and running around looking where they roll after falling out of your ear.
That’s impressive, do you remember which headphones those were?
I’m really mad that they removed my external antenna. Used to be, you could get better replacement antennas for your phone, or even replace a damaged one. All it takes is one bump or jiggle the wrong way, and the internal antenna for your phone gets disconnected, and now you need an entirely new phone. Removing the antenna socket was a cost cutting measure for phone manufacturers that ensures you have to replace the device earlier. Remember your first antenna phone? It probably lasted 5 years. Modern smartphones get churned out every 18 months. They’ve played us for fools.
My mom had a cool one that flashed when she got a phone call
wait, we need to dig it up and get our headphone jacks back. location, depth?
Sony Xperias have 3.5mm jacks again. A few of them are also supported by LineageOS and Sailfish OS, so you’re not necessarily stuck in the Google ecosystem.
They also have an SD card slot for those who feel the onboard storage isn’t quite enough for their tastes.
I still have one in my phone, and external SD card storage too. Another thing that they want gone (cloud storage agenda).
I miss having an SD card slot…
Me too, my guilty pleasure gacha game are only getting bigger. 64 gigs doesn’t cut it anymore.
This exists, for anyone who would benefit
If only there was a way to build that function directly into the phone.
Bro we’re consumers, not billionaires
Adaptors & usb-c style headphones SUCK FUCKING ASS.
The usb-c port is unreliable & gets dirty too easily & also they fall out a lot b/c it’s so fucking shallow.
Take your adaptor propaganda elsewhere, sir or ma’am!
The thing I posted is lightning, not usb-c
That is a distinction without a difference.
They are quite different. They are not compatible. My phone uses one and my wife’s phone uses the other. If they were compatible, we’d have fewer cords in this house.
I understand, I just meant they both have similar disadvantages in comparison to 9mm jack, imo.
That’s even less useful
Useful for someone with an iphone
Recent iphones also use USB C
There is a lot to be said about having less shit to keep track off
Of course. But we do what we can with what we’ve got.
I got a pair of wired earbuds for $20 at my drug store and the audio quality and build quality is really serviceable. I would probably have to pay at least $60 or $70 for a similar build and audio quality with Bluetooth earbuds.
And this is the reason why apple and other companies jump on the trend. Many of these manufacturers also sell Bluetooth headphones and they want people to buy them instead of cheaper wired ones.
Some of them make excuses but this is one of the primary reasons, and some of the excuses are so transparently stupid it isn’t even funny. Like saying they removed it so people can use Bluetooth headphones (as if presence of the headphone jack prevents use of Bluetooth headphones 🙄).
I still have one, really don’t want to get a new phone that doesn’t. I still use my earbuds all the time
