I would probably prefer having a headphone jack. I am using wireless buds though. The problem with them is the price. While you can get decent wired earbuds for around $100 or even slightly less you have to pay at least $300 for decent wireless ones. Seriously I tried a few, but they all sounded like absolute garbage. It’s probably a cheap DAC in all of them combined with even less available space due to batteries and other electronics.
Another downside is that you can only use them for like 5 hours at a time. It is fine most of the time, but on long train rides I hit the limitation a few times.
Overall I am happy with the wireless ones, they are convenient, but it is really expensive to replace them and you have fewer choices, so having wired headsets as an option would be great.
I never tried wireless Bluetooth interfaces though and I suspect they might be better than the inbuilt jack of phones which would make them obsolete in my opinion.
As someone who currently uses headphones throughout pretty much all his free time, yes I use wired whenever possible and my current phone was one I got because of the headphone jack. Last thing I want is to have to stop listening to whatever I’m listening to all because my bluetooth headphones need a charge.
Currently I’m stuck with a pair of shitty dollar store headphones, but they are so much better than the wireless ones I have because of just how long I can enjoy music, videos, etcetera, without needing to worry when my headphone battery needs charged. A headphone jack is extremely important to me.
It could possibly be an acceptable compromise. Though I prefer the jack to be part of the phone so that way it’s one less accessory I have to worry about losing or accidentally destroying.
You don’t, though I would have thought that most of the time when people are using their headphones plugged in to their phone they’re out and about rather than sitting with their phone next to the socket? Though that could be an incorrect assumption of course
No, everything is blocked on our work computers and they encrypt removable storage devices when you plug them in so can’t bring media from home either. Just easier to use the phone.
As someone who currently uses headphones throughout pretty much all his free time, yes I use wired whenever possible and my current phone was one I got because of the headphone jack. Last thing I want is to have to stop listening to whatever I’m listening to all because my bluetooth headphones need a charge.
Currently I’m stuck with a pair of shitty dollar store headphones, but they are so much better than the wireless ones I have because of just how long I can enjoy music, videos, etcetera, without needing to worry when my headphone battery needs charged. A headphone jack is extremely important to me.
I finally tried a little Bluetooth amp and found my wired earphones sound better than they ever did plugged into the phone directly. Couldn’t hear an improvement when plugging into the usb port and using as a usb DAC. So i guess the high quality ldac codec must be kinda good.
Would still prefer the 3.5mm option of course - much more useful for aux out.
I used to be quite hardline on this, however now I use a portable DAP (Hiby R5 Gen 2) for my music. It has a class A amplifier, balanced output, a Terabyte of storage, and streams Qubuz Hi-Res. So I don’t use my phone now.
I usually use wireless headphones nowadays, but there are still plenty of instances where I’m happy to have the headphone jack. Random parties where someone needs to play music via the aux cable, going somewhere with only some small wired headphones in my pocket because I dont have space, etc. For me it’s still quite important that my next phone has one.
On the one hand, you make a compelling point for a headphone jack. On the other hand, you can just create a collaborative queue on Spotify or whatever music app you are using.
Samsung Galaxy XCover 6 Pro is pretty much your only option. I too switched from a V20.
It’s not an upgrade in every way. No Hi-Fi DAC, no optical image stabilizer and no IR blaster but all in all I’ve been quite satisfied with this one. By far the best feeling phone in hand without a case too. You also gain back the good old notification led.
I ended up getting Bluetooth headphones when I upgraded my Pixel. I deliberated over it for AGES.
Charging them is less annoying than I thought it would be (I bought my headphones in January and have only had to charge them about 4 times??) but it annoys me that you can’t just plug them in and they work. Talking to anyone on the phone using them is terrible. Bluetooth cuts out sometimes, randomly. I miss my wired headphones :(
I much prefer wireless headphones, because I keep breaking every plug. I even tried soldering them, but that ended in a catastrophe lol. That being said, I recently lost my wireless pair and had to pick my old K450. Now I’m grateful that I picked a phone with a headphone jack. I wasn’t even checking if it has one while buying.
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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