No, I really enjoy my shokz bone conduction headphones for general work calls, audiobooks, chores, running, etc. It’s like I simply have the audio in my head.
They are Bluetooth and last all day, sometimes multiple if I’m not in meetings all day. They are waterproof, I can even swim with them.
Honestly running got me away from wired headphones the most
I would, but in my rush to buy a cheap one (OnePlus Nord), I forgot to check. Luckily, it’s also rather rare I need them, so I bought some even cheaper Lenovo Pro in-ears from AliExpress for 8€ which, while annoying, are acceptable for what little I need. Luckily, my computer both has proper speakers and a headphone jack.
Part of the reason is that I generally hate having to charge things. My keyboard is wired, my mouse is wireless but permanently connected via a woven USB cable.
It’s a nice to have and frankly aside from maybe water resistance there’s no good reason to remove it. The 3.5mm jack has worked since the dawn of portable music, doesn’t require often fickle pairing, and of significant issue to me at least doesn’t have the potential for some future DRM scheme when the media companies decide you have to use their special app to play something. It’s much the same reason I resisted HDMI for as long as possible.
That said, I do use wireless and probabbly would routinely even if the current phone did have a jack, but I would very much like to have it there just for the option to plug a wire in and attach it wherever I feel like. Wouldn’t be the first time an aux port or RCA adapter came in handy.
I have once owned wireless earbuds. It was cool to have free head, but I was too lazy to keep recharging them like every week or so. They finally died. Or at least the case did. I have replaced the charging chip in it, but it only extended the lifespan by a few weeks. It’s now unable to charge both earbuds at once. Still, better than self-heating short-circuited case.
I just don’t like them overall. Battery, latency, audio cuts after a bit of silence (power saving), and at the end, more waste.
I still use Bluetooth audio, but differently. With my laptop. When working on laptop, I have my earphones connected to it. But it is more convenient to play music on my phone, so I connect my phone to laptop for audio as well. In fact, I feel like the sound card in my laptop sounds a bit better than my phone, and with laptop I can use aptX HD.
Nope. Just what comes integrated. I don’t have extra money for that stuff. I don’t even have a desktop, and I am not sure if there are any good USB sound cards.
I admit that i’m pretty much an audiophile 🎵, but you really don’t need expensive equipment in order to have good audio. (My sound card is OLD)
But what i really hate is Realtek (you know the company with the blue crab 🦀 that makes audio & network chips and drivers?)
Well, their networking part is alright, but they literally destroyed the PC Audio industry.
I still remember fondly that my old desktop PC and laptop from 2004 both came with dedicated C-Media sound chips (they were low end, but still miles better than integrated audio).
Nowadays, you might find devices that come with Dolby, Beats or other certification or audio software, but they are just a patch solution for what was basically a downgrade in product quality.
But what sucks even more is that integrated audio meant a performance loss whenever sound was involved (from watching Youtube to videogames).
Sorry for the long comment, but i needed to get it out xD
If you have any questions about audio quality or sound cards feel free to ask ✌️
No, and I don’t miss it at all.
I’ve used BT headphones even when my last two devices had jacks and wouldn’t want to go back.
Prior to that, I can’t count the number of times I would snag the wires on something or get them tangled in some way.
Now I use my BT bone conduction headphones everywhere.
I feel like every comment I'm reading assumes there's only two options - either headphone jack + wired headphones, or no headphone jack + Bluetooth.
I just use a USB-C dongle with a headphone jack on it. It'd be nice to have it built-in, sure, but the dongle is only a few bucks, small, doesn't really add a lot of extra stuff to carry if I'm already carrying headphones.
It's not a deal-breaker for my if a phone doesn't have a headphone jack because if it doesn't I can easily add one.
I have a headphone jack, but use bt headphones. having the wire hanging down while walking just seems super weird to me. i can only imagine having a jack on a handheld console because of the louder volume and much lower latency.
The poll/voting process is flawed & I don’t like that.
That said, idk, I’m a blue collar working adult & the aux/wired connection isn’t a necessity in my daily life. I can often, if not always, blast my music on an Ion loudspeaker. Car has Bluetooth. Home, I’ve got Bluetooth.
But that’s just not the point for me; my phone has an aux port & I rarely use it. Used it to connect headphones on a walk last week. It’s nice & I like having the option. Getting rid of it was purely an anti-consumer move, so needless, and obviously they can build it into the phones without detracting from battery or taking away from water resistance. Everything I’ve heard justifying removing aux is either a lie or an excuse.
My current phone does not have a jack and my previous one did. I would prefer to have it since there are times I don't need/want noise cancelling and bluetooth, but I have no choice but to run down my headphone batteries more.
I haven’t used wired since around 2013, and would have switched to jack-less if available at that time. I don’t understand the “anti-consumer” theories around their removal. Most people who end up buying phones without jacks end up buying BT headphones from a manufacturer other than the phone one. Unless you think there’s a conspiracy where Sony and Bose are giving kickbacks to Samsung and Apple…
I use a Samsung galaxy note 9 which has a Jack because i want a Jack. I replaced the screen twice after it broke just not to buy a diff phone. Fyi note 10 comes without a Jack
I’m not a fan of BT headphones. It’s three things (2 pods and the case that charges them) that you have to juggle and keep charged, vs just one that works whenever the device it’s plugged into works. Wired headphones have a nice additional perk of discouraging people from interacting with you, while (at least anecdotally) the BT ones seem to lose that deterrent… and the venn diagram for times I want to use headphones and the times I don’t want to deal with other people is just one crisp circle.
I always try to pick out a phone that has a 3.5mm jack, but that’s becoming increasingly hard to do.
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