How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?

Linkerbaan , 7 months ago

Bluetooth earbuds are everything younger me dreamed of when dealing with when taking a tangled wire mess out of my pocket.

Xander_Meters , 7 months ago

Every day as my headphones have a wire aswell as bluetooth. The latency is definitely there while the wire sounds fuller too. Im sure there difference would be mitigated with a more expensive pair of headphones but I also need to be battery concious with my 5 year old phone and bluetooth drains faster.

Enkrod , 7 months ago

Every. Single. Day.

My cars bluetooth is broken, so I connect my phone via headphone jack. This way I can still use my cars speakers and mic to receive phone calls and listen to music or audiobooks on my one hour drive to work.

I also despise bluetooth headphones. My phones batteries last longer since I don’t use bluetooth anymore and I can’t be bothered to not lose them and always have them charged when I want to use them.

With my good wired Bose headphones I pay a third of what the wireless crap would cost, have better sound and they are always ready, easily to take care of and at worst slightly tangled from being crammed into a jeans pocket.

AnalogyAddict , 7 months ago

I use it exclusively. No Bluetooth headphones for me.

Pat_Riot , 7 months ago

You have a phone with a headphone jack? Who are you, 2012?

pandacoder , 7 months ago

I don’t have a headphone jack.

Even if I had one, I haven’t been able to buy wired headphones that aren’t crap quality that don’t hurt my ears. Last time I bought wired headphones (more accurately earbuds) they were tinny knock off garbage being sold on Amazon as a legitimate product, and that was years ago.

JackiesFridge , 7 months ago

Crap quality bluetooth headphones that hurt your ears cost twice as much as wired, but go on

pandacoder , 6 months ago

There’s only one company I’ve found that makes headphone shapes that don’t hurt my ears and they stopped making wired variants years ago. Last time I got an actually authentic pair was ~2017.

The void they left behind got flooded by knockoff junk that isn’t worth buying (bought 2 pairs in 2018 trying to find a replacement, they were tinny garbage).

If I could find a wired version that sounded good for under $50 I’d get them immediately so I can stop dealing with Bluetooth connection issues when I’m on my computer.

JackiesFridge , 6 months ago

What company? I know a number of them have been bought out and ruined over the years.

You may be able to find a replacement by asking after similar styles on an enthusiast forum (like Head-Fi).

timo_timboo_ , 7 months ago

Definitely at least once a week, though usually more than that.

Underwaterbob , 7 months ago

I would if I had one. I did buy a USB-C to 3.5mm cable anyway. So many audio applications are basically unusable with the latency you get with Bluetooth headphones.

selokichtli , 7 months ago

I do. I also actively search for phones with FM radio.

hunt4peas , 7 months ago

Mine doesn’t have it but Xiaomi have a USB C to headphone jack adaptor and I use it everyday.

JoJoGAH , 7 months ago

The kitchen disco requires really good headphones. You don’t get ear covering sound without a jack.

spare_muppets , 7 months ago

I use wired headphones daily thru a USB c adapter

MennoRobert , 7 months ago

I’m using my headphones jack right now! I use it mainly when I am commuting on the train. I don’t want to worry about battery life and charging my headphones.

DillyDaily , 7 months ago

All the time, always and forever.

I will buy adaptors, and seek out wired headphones with a jack that fits my phone.

Friends and families have bought me wireless headphones, but I am a walking Bluetooth black zone (I’m constantly having to reset Bluetooth connections on my all my devices, no one else in my household has the same problem), and I’m notorious for loosing things.

I superglued my wireless ear buds to a chunky necklace so even if one fell out it wouldn’t get lost, it would just dangle around my neck. Lost the whole thing somewhere between the garage and the front door one night. Got my housemates out crawling in the grass looking for it with torches and playing the “lost ear bud” tone from the app, but we never found it. Not even when mowing the lawn did we ever hear it getting chewed up.

I’m not an audiophile, I have reverse slope hearing loss and I’m currently using a $10 pair of 3.5mm earphones with a $7 usbc adaptor and its exactly what I need because it’s cheap, replaceable, and I wouldn’t even notice better audio quality if it stuck it’s tongue in my ear.

NaoPb , 7 months ago

I use it all the time. I have lots of equipent that doesn’t use bluetooth that I connect my phone with.