They got rid of 3.5mm jacks because for 95% of the customer base they were as useful as bellybuttons, they collected lint. If you want to use a jack, get a dedicated audio device and pick whatever phone you want.
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original_reader@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Wired headphones are the answer. Sound better. No batteries, excellent cross-device compatibility and a ton of other advantages I’ve written about elsewhere.
If only companies wouldn’t remove the jack left, right and centre for mostly lousy excuses.
who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
thenofootcanman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The wire was always a point of failure that broke and needed me to buy new headphones though.
original_reader@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yes, the cheap ones have that problem. Decent quality makes all the difference. I have had mine for years with no problems.
thenofootcanman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The Bluetooth ones with a detachable cable are the best of both worlds tbh
Kolrami@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Cheap is fine. I don’t use wired headphones as much, but I’d rather they break than whatever they’re connected to. I’d have a bunch of devices with ruined ports if my headphones had been stronger. Best option would be if they just disconnected from the port, but that’s less likely if the cable is orthogonal to the jack when I’m about to break it.
Back in the day, I thought Apple revolutionized with magnetic charging cables, but I never really saw that get widespread mass usage.
Blubber28@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The annoying thing is that there was a solution for this. They sold earbuds with anti-knotting wires a few years ago. I bought Sennheiser earbuds with anti-knotting wires, used them day in, day out, on the road in my pockets and at home at my desktop and they lasted for two and a half years. Given how much I used them, that’s a long time. I bought the same model again and they too lasted very long. Now they suddenly did away with the perfect solution and want to do everything wireless as if we can spare the lithium. It’s ridiculous.
TheSambassador@lemmy.world 9 months ago
But now instead you just have no options when the batteries die, which in my experience has never broken 2 years.
Luvon@beehaw.org 9 months ago
The convenience of not being wired to my device outweighs “better” sound.
Wired doesn’t immediately make it sound better. Plenty of crap or just cheap wired ones.
What is great is never getting up and have your ears ya led and and your phone sent flying because you forgot you set your phone on the table. Or worse, the cables got caught on the door knob.