On a recent post, there were a lot of comments, which said that they were missing the headphones on newer mobile 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.

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    People like having choice, it was never about saving space in phones. I like my wired bose headphones that I’ve had for 15 years and will likely last at least 15 more. Those wireless ones are the definition of planned obsolescence.

    • varsock@programming.devEnglish
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      2 years ago

      People like having choice, it was never about saving space in phones.

      If you look at which company (apple) and the time of removal of headphone jack (around the time their wireless buds were announced), you’ll notice they removed choice so the consumer can only buy more expensive wireless buds, or many many dongles.

      The “save space” is an absolute lie. The international (EU, Asia, etc) version of the iPhone has a dedicated SIM card tray. The US model? No tray, just a freakin placeholder where the international version has the SIM tray. Yes, there is a volume of space that can fit 2 headphone jacks on the US iPhone that is just empty.

      Look at this iFixit video where they call apple out on it. The placeholder is huge. at ~1:17+

    • Tanoh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Also bluetooth fucking sucks for lack of a better phrase.

      9/10 times it connects fine, but then every now and then it just refuses. “What? No I don’t exist” and then you have to either restart bluetooth and/or the device, and then it magically works again.

      Also, I quite often get stuttering with it. Not sure if it is my phone or headphones or both at fault, but I would like having an audio jack when I am sitting at the desk

      • SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Around 2011 or so, certain Android models had mini hdmi. I even bought a mini hdmi to hdmi cable. I believe screen mirroring became common and killed it because I didn’t see it on phones after a couple of years.

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I use the headphone jack every single day, both with my headphones and with an audio-in cable for my car.

    I’d be lost without it.

    Also, I’ve tried Bluetooth headsets and they’ve all died on me for various reasons. I want relatively high quality headphones, and whether they’re wired or wireless, good sound tends to cost more. But I don’t want to spend more on something that will die quickly, so it’s wired headphones for me.

  • coconutking@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Nobody’s mentioning the lossy sound quality of Bluetooth compared to wired. Bluetooth relies on codecs and compression in order to stream the data fast enough to listen uninterrupted.

    Wired sets are lossless; and yes, some people can hear the difference.

  • highduc@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I think people who dislike the headphone jack must be young and not have (good) wired headphones.
    Older people (older than teenagers and young adults I mean) often have a few pairs of good headphones they got over the years, and it’s a massive waste to just throw them away and buy wireless because that’s what the trends demand. And in most cases wireless won’t sound as good, because the budget needs to go to bluetooth chips, and dacs, and batteries and all that crap, instead of just focusing on audio.

    According to Wikipedia, ‘The original 1⁄4 inch (6.35 mm) version descends from as early as 1877’, and it’s been an industry standard since then.
    You can use it not just for headphones but as a line out, to connect all kinds of audio devices between them. You can hook up your phone to a car audio system, an old radio (if it has input, I think most do), a guitar pedal or an amplifier, a reverb or an effects unit, etc., just with the “magic” of wires.

  • wiccan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I have never once missed it. I’ve already switched to Bluetooth for my headphones and car. At home I cast to the hifi or Bluetooth speaker.

    I got an adaptor to let me use cabled headphones when I need to and I’ve used it twice, once was to test it even worked.

    The use case just doesn’t exist for me anymore.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Same. Did me, the advantages of wired headphones don’t outweigh the obnoxiousness of fucking wires getting tangled up.

      • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 years ago

        This is it for me. Yeah Bluetooth is meh, some codec make it less meh, but really I just don’t want to have a wire, and am willing to put up with all the tradeoffs to make that happen.