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Okami_No_Rei ,
@Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world avatar

I use it daily for connecting it to my car stereo, and about once a month when I mow my lawn or have to fly on a plane. I’ll never buy a phone without one.

I prefer wired headphones. I don’t want to worry about keeping them charged, and the few pairs of wireless headphones I have tried died or had the buttons stop working after a few uses from getting waterlogged with sweat, while I’ve been using the same pair of $6 wired headphones for 10 years without issues.

I don’t care for Bluetooth or USB audio connections as they don’t always work intuitively, they might take multiple button presses to set up, and every manufacturer seems to think they need to be set up in a slightly different way, while the auxiliary audio cable just works with no setup.

LainOfTheWired ,
@LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol avatar

For me it’s always been a dumb argument. There is no good argument for not having one

  • It costs maybe £2 to add a crappy DAC, amp, and headphone jack to a phone that is already ridiculously expensive.
  • The waterproof argument was destroyed by the S5, S6, S7, S8, and S9.
  • The iPhone 7 literally had the space inside for one!

It’s also weird to me that a lot of budget phones have them. Like why would a £200 phone have a feature a £1,000+ phone doesn’t?

tburkhol ,

Budget phones have them because wired earbuds or headphones are cheap: wired buds under $10. Last flight I was on gave them away for free. Harder to lose. If you’re paying £1,000+ for a phone, the you’re probably not worried about the cost of accessories. Might even put the style of no dangly wires over the functionality.

LainOfTheWired ,
@LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol avatar

Once again not correct. Yes they will give away cheap earphones, but you can get TW earbuds for £15 easily these days. Also there are plenty of wired earphones that cost hundreds and in a few cases thousands of pounds. It’s still taking away functionality and features when you remove it.

And to address the original apple argument of oh the headphone jack is old outdated tech( from the iPhone 7 announcement). Please go look up a chord Hugo 2 dac. And tell me what the output is. Why then does a over £1,000 dac/amp have a headphone jack.

It’s a poor argument from a company that wants to sell you a bunch of dongles and airpods. Which has unfortunately mostly worked.

And don’t even get me started on the 2016 macbooks which went down so poorly due to the oh you’re just poor argument not working that they went back and added more ports on the newer ones.

I’m not poor I just want to use my £200 wired earphones with my phone without needing a dongle that’s designed to break easier then a late 2012-2016 MacBook charger.

tburkhol ,

Too entitled to understand dividing markets by cost. Aesthetics trump functionality when your phone becomes a fashion accessory.

Why would you even waste studio headphones on a device with a $0.25 DAC and no space for signal isolation? Or is that just to signal fellow audiophiles.

spikederailed ,

I did everyday in my car for listening to music when I still had my Pixel4a. Sadly it started to die and I replaced it with a Pixel 8(sans headphone jack) and had to buy a Bluetooth -> aux adapter.

MartinXYZ ,

I use it a lot. Both to listen to music while on public transportation and to connect the phone to my stereo at home.

ajrwill ,

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.

zipzoopaboop ,

I use it regularly on steam deck, but not phone

Zoomboingding ,
@Zoomboingding@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Kethal ,

If I’m in the mood for better sound quality I do. Bluetooth has noticably poorer quality on anything but the worst equipment.

I also use the headphone jack when I don’t want to deal with the inexplicably still not addressed after decades terrible Bluetooth connectivity issues.

Lucidlethargy ,

I used it back when they still put them in flagship phones. The audio quality is much, much higher than via Bluetooth.

I use a DAC now, but it’s not great…

JohnDClay ,

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.

onlinepersona ,

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.

BlackSkinnedJew ,

I do

Daxtron2 ,

I used to use it everyday on my old phone, new one doesn’t have it and I hate using the dongle. My USB-C port is already wearing out from it

Nyanix ,
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I used to every day when I worked at a music shop and would play audio demos from it. The loss of the port made my job VERY difficult to do. Now that I work in a new field and have had to invest in some bluetooth earbuds, I don’t find that I’d need the port very often, though the audiophile in me misses it sometimes, especially since bluetooth can be so unreliable sometimes. Don’t miss the dangling cable, but the thing is, I can bluetooth earbud on a phone that has a 3.5mm jack too, the fact that they removed it from phones as a standard when it’s such a cheap part to implement is baffling, especially when we’re paying tons for phones. I can have 16gb RAM, and 8-cores, bud God forbid I want to be able to plug in a speaker and have my phone plugged into the charger at the same time, like a repurposed old phone for a home audio system or something.

ohlaph ,

I used to. Then I bought a new phone and forgot to check to see if it had one. It did not.

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