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JakenVeina ,

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.

systemglitch ,

I do. Nice feature I always appreciate having it.

Bruncvik ,
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I still listen to radio on my phone. Wired headphones are required, as they serve as the antenna.

Other than that, I do a lot of running. Given how often it rains, headphones last no longer than half a year, and wired ones are far cheaper to replace. (I do have a pair of wireless Shockz, which handle water very well, but they are not good for city running with high ambient noise.)

enix ,

It kinda defeats the purpose of open ear but try wearing earplugs.

That’s what I do when I use loud tools with my shockz

Bruncvik ,
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That’s what I’ve been using when flying and when running on a treadmill in a busy gym. But as you said, it does defeat the purpose of hearing your surroundings, so otherwise I keep to headphones where I can regulate the volume to hear better without completely blocking the external sound.

Iamdanno ,

What’s a headphone jack?

JK, I used to use mine a lot, when I had one. I was sad to see it go, but I’ve moved on. I can use the USB-C port just as easily, if I want to.

_s10e ,

I don’t use wired headphones with my phone anymore since it doesn’t have a 3.5mm jack, but I miss that i cannot plug my headphone quickly in a laptop’s 3.5mm jack quickly.

I like that binary nature of cables. When physically connected they work. No fiddling with Bluetooth menus.

tocopherol ,

I don’t have a jack, just USB-C and with the cable and adapter it’s still much worse. If it was 3.5mm my phone would know it’s just a stereo headset, but because I use have to use a USB-c adapter, it gets slightly loose and will pause the music, or play if it is paused, skip tracks, etc. The 3.5mm plug is ancient in terms of tech but still is the best plug format for headphones imo.

pineapplelover ,

I use IEMs and wired headphones. Having a headphone jack would be game changer since I can charge and play music at the same time (I don’t want to buy a 2 in 1 dongle).

haganbmj ,
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Before I updated my car I used the headphone jack regularly for playing music there. Otherwise it was relegated to a couple situations a year like air travel.

Now that I’ve got a newer vehicle I just have all my music on USB there.

Frenky_Fisher ,

I dont live in a 1st world so I prefer 3.5mm jack headphones over usb c ones because headphone manufacturers don’t have to bother with DAC and can use that money to build better audio drivers

yamanii ,
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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.

austinfloyd ,

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)

amio ,

I do. I recently bought a new phone and this was non-negotiable. My headphones are good and my desire to bring Bluetooth and batteries into the equation is a cool zero at most.

roofuskit ,

I completely understand this sentiment. Bluetooth is not what is promised on the surface. There are too many conflicting versions. Even worse are the proprietary codecs that must be licensed by both your phone and your headphones in order to work optimally. If one or the other doesn’t have a license it falls back to whatever the basic license free options are.

Only recently have cheap and easy to manage devices like the pixel-a buds that allow one click device switching come into existence. And even those are $100 compared to the cost of a similar audio quality set of wired headphones, that’s a lot.

Generally, keeping things charged isn’t an issue for me but I don’t use my earbuds out and about a lot. If I was commuting to the office daily it would be something I’d have to plan for.

protput ,

Tbh. I love my Samsung buds. I don’t understand people complaining about the hassle of wireless. It is the wires that are always a hassle imo. My earbuds just pop out the case and are ready.

hoch ,

My Buds are probably the greatest $100 I’ve spent. Highly recommend, especially if you have a Samsung phone.

daltotron ,

My phone doesn’t have a headphone jack. Despite this, I used a pair of shitty wired IEMs every day when I walk my dog. I don’t really think bluetooth is all that bad, it works for me most of the time, except on my oldass car which I bought one of those bluetooth to radio short throw transmitters that plugs in the ciggy lighter and it gets really staticky when it rains, but my car’s speaker system wasn’t doing wonders anyways so I don’t think it matters that much.

No, I don’t have a problem with bluetooth, but I still think it’s probably worse for most every application I could think of, compared to an aux jack. The amount of time I save by having my phone automatically connect to my car compared to plugging in my phone is basically nothing. Takes about 3 seconds for my phone to connect, takes about 3 seconds for my phone to get plugged in. Same with regular headphones. About the only thing I can maybe think of is a wireless speaker, but I tend not to use those very often and you could probably do that over wifi in most applications. That, and the cost of bluetooth is just always gonna be higher than an aux jack, or a wire. Shut up about DACs, too, I don’t care. A cost of like 4 bucks for a usb-c to aux cable is going to perform about the same as your pretentious 500 dollar usb-c to usb to usb powered DAC to aux port chain you have going on because of “noise”. That’s insane. It’s insane to carry that shit around in your pocket all day.

Headphones, you’re paying more for worse quality, basically every time, and this will hold true for every device. Plus there’s always the fuggin batteries and the little stupid case, and I’m not paying more for a new pair of shittier headphones when in 3 years my bluetooth headphones can’t hold a charge because the manufacturer didn’t program anything for a trickle charge to preserve battery life.

I dunno, this makes me mad, phones not being 16:9 makes me mad, phones not fitting in my dainty little hands makes me mad.

dani ,

I would if it had one.

Nanomerce ,

I use wired anytime I’m listening for more than an hour or so.

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