Submitted 11 months ago by moonleay@feddit.de to technology@lemmy.world
On a recent post, there were a lot of comments, which said that they were missing the headphones on newer devices.
How many actually use the headphone jack?
I ask, because I have one on my phone, since I really wanted one, but I rarely use it. Like Tops 1/Month.
I would use it, if my phone had one.
I use wired headphones daily thru a USB c adapter
My friends workshop has an old stereo in it. We use the Aux cable to play music on that.
Otherwise I usually have a pair of cheap headphones in my bag in case the bluetooth ones run out.
I use earphones to listen to music and take calls hads free quite often.
I recently got a new phone, a Fairphone 5, which doesn’t have a headphone jack, and I’m already missing it.
Listening to music is fine, I just use a USB-C to jack adapter, but I’ve been told people can’t hear me well when I’m doing the same to take a call.
The other day I was in the car with my brother for hours and wanted to put on some music. I couldn’t connect to the car radio via Bluetooth because my brother already was and needed it to take calls and whatnot, so AUX cable here we go. Except apparently my phone does something weird like shutting down the USB port when not in use (reasonable) between songs, creating a noise like when you connect a jack to a powered on speaker, which was super annoying.
So, yes, I use the headphones jack and sorely miss it.
I use mine whenever I want to use my M50Xs. I tried buds, twice. Galaxy buds and Sony XM4s, the XM4s fell into a pool and the galaxy buds were simply misplaced. The galaxy buds sounded like absolute trash while the XM4 were actually decent, but why would I prefer them over the M50X? Now I’m switching from my note 9 to the pixel 8 pro and I don’t know what I’ll be doing about the lack of headphone jack.
My girlfriend has it even worse, her car only has AUX, no Bluetooth. I got her a Pixel 8 for Christmas, so she’ll lose the only way to put music in her car. I also don’t know what I’ll be doing about that.
Honest take? We’ve got neural chips on our phones, we got cameras rivaling pro-level cameras, but we keep losing some very essential and basic features for no fucking reason. The headphone jack should’ve never been removed. Hell, the IR blaster should’ve never been removed, I’d kill for a high end phone with such things. Radio is another one, it’s never going away as a means of communication, but fuck me for thinking I should have an antenna for radio in a box full of antennas for everything else, right?
Hey maybe I’m wrong about radio and it’s just unfeasible to provide good quality signal for all things in a 6 inch box. Maybe I’m wrong about the IR blaster somehow even though TVs, LED stripes, and garage doors still use IR. But it’s ridiculous to force no headphone jack as a trend that everyone just follows, all for pricier and shittier Bluetooth buds.
We used to be able to fit all this shit into phones back then, there’s 0 reason to exclude them over size constraints now. If the reason is “butt fastah phowns”, my 5 year old note 9 still feels more than snappy enough. Maybe we should spend more time making our shit efficient in order to use less space for heat dissipation, as well as better battery life or less battery size for the same battery life. Seriously who needs the kind of computing power found on phones nowadays? Is it really worth it to sacrifice basic QOL functionality for more speed?
My girlfriend has it even worse, her car only has AUX, no Bluetooth. I got her a Pixel 8 for Christmas, so she’ll lose the only way to put music in her car. I also don’t know what I’ll be doing about that.
They make AUX to USB C adapters. They even have ones that will split off an AUX input so you can charge your phone and have AUX plugged in at the same time.
I use mine for listening to audiobooks on an external speaker. Bluetooth speakers often cut off the beginnings of sentences due to the brief silence between them.
Every single day, maybe a few times a year I don’t use it. Though because I have an iphone, my headphone jack is on an adapter. But still, I know for certain it’s not something I can ever give up at this point, have tried the Bluetooth thing.
When my phone lost the headphone jack, I just stopped listening to music outside of my home.
I honestly prefer walks now.
Every Monday when I game with a buddy online.
Occasionally. If I’m at my desk and I get a call, I’ll move my wired headset over from my PC to my phone.
I love rhythm games so when I play the mobile ones, maybe 2 times a week? Bluetooth is too slow and prone to disconnection to be reliable, I missed everything when I tried, and muse dash even alerts you on boot to not use bluetooth.
I do, several hours per day. Wireless headphones might are okay in short stints, but I really like my wired ones (Sony MDRs, which will probably outlast me)
I would if it had one.
I don’t, but I’ve had about 5 years to replace all of my perfectly good cables with crappy bluetooth audio/dongles.
I bought wireless headphones about 4 years ago and haven’t used wired since. Even when playing through speakers, in my car, and all that I just use Bluetooth.
I don’t use it much, but I do appreciate the one I have on my phone, since I don’t always have my BT earbuds with me. Whereas I usually always have some cheap wired earbuds somewhere with me.
What headphone jack?
Daily.
Driving to and from work it plugs into my car and at work it plugs into my headset.
I use mine everyday, and i was one of the first to adapt to wireless headphones when they was just Chinese exotic headphones (before apple and Samsung wireless headphones even existed) and i spotted few cons of using them before they even got popular, main problem of using them is battery and secondary is latency when you pause resume video alot, there are also alot more like signal interference in places with lot of WiFi hotspots so i returned to using wired headphones around time when first apple tws was presented, i use modular wired headphones so i can change wires if they break and always have some spare, also modular headphones can be connected to Bluetooth modules making them effectively tws and when their battery goes bad then you’ll just change Bluetooth module and that’s it
I only bought wireless headphones because the Galaxy Note 10 didn’t have an aux, and required their own overpriced adapter to connect through USB-C. I bike a lot while listening to music and hate when the headphones run out of battery halfway through my ride.
I use mine consistently, and the presence of one will be a dealbreaker when I choose my next phone. I use it with an AUX cable in my car, headphones in places without wifi, and (most importantly) with a Square point of sale thingamajig at shows. Bluetooth options exist for the last thing of course, but they have their own disadvantages.
If you open a pre-bluetooth audio vehicle and you commute, then you need an aux port. Even early BT vehicles had iffy connection issues that are immediately solved by just plugging in.
Roadtripping and someone else wants to play a quick song? Well you can go into the touchscreen settings and go through linking the phone to the vehicles bluetooth, or you can just pass the cord.
Bluetooth is still fucking ass for almost everything. I have a new car, but still plug the phone in with a wire. With USB-C you can both receive and transmit audio with decent quality and it also charges your phone!
O that is nice. I did not know you could charge during the data connection
Regularly
There’s probably a lot of selection bias going on right now, but I feel compelled to say “I won’t buy a phone without a jack”.
The convenience of not having to charge headphones is great. I use them so infrequently that when I pull them out on a trip, I don’t want to go “ah shit, forgot to charge them”. But on long trips, bluetooth kills my battery so jack is the only way to go for me.
One every month or two, when I play audio in the old vehicle. It’s nice to be able to charge at the same time.
Only a little. I use Bluetooth earbuds most of the time. I have an older work vehicle without Bluetooth though, so I still have to use the aux cord on some drives.
I use it regularly on steam deck, but not phone
Used to back when I was in high school and it was more common, but bluetooth earbuds have gotten really good sound-wise that the hassle of wires/dac/adapter isn’t worth it nowadays for me and basically everyone I know.
Wired headphones sound better usually but I think anyone claiming they’re superior to bluetooth in every way is being disingenuous and hasn’t tried modern buds.
I use it a lot. Both to listen to music while on public transportation and to connect the phone to my stereo at home.
xlash123@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I regularly wireless earbuds, which are extremely convenient, but I am not looking forward to the day when the battery is insufficient for me and I can’t replace it due to “innovation”. I also miss out on having splitters so that 2 people can listen to the same audio. I know Bluetooth LE is supposed to fix that, but I don’t even know what devices support that. Like others said, having the choice is important, but Apple’s “bravery” and market domination removed that from us…