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

thorbot , 7 months ago

I never do, because it doesn’t have one

Artyom , 7 months ago

Bluetooth has never improved the user experience of connecting. It’s always been super annoying to keep track of connections. Bluetooth is limited to mp3 quality, aka 1/4 the quality of a CD, and that limit will never increase. We can do a little better with fancy codecs, but you’ll always be able to tell with good headphones. A headphone jack is still higher quality than any non-headphone jack alternative, and it will always be that way.

Buddahriffic , 7 months ago

That’s no longer true. I appreciate my headphone jack, but Bluetooth continues to iterate and 5.0+ has pretty good sound quality. If your specific hardware only supports 3.x, then it’s true that it will never get better, but the standard has improved. Other improvements include better range and security, low power modes, and higher bandwidth.

Also mp3 is a file and compression format and can vary in quality by quite a bit, depending on bitrate. It’s more useful to express quality in sample rate and bit depth, or bitrate. Bluetooth is capable of transmitting 16bit 44khz audio (CD quality) if both devices support the correct optional codecs.

That said, the wired connection supports whatever the DAC can handle as it’s an analog signal, so theoretically even better than CD quality (though not really in practice since the source audio won’t likely be better than CD quality, plus increasing the sample rate doesn’t really improve anything since it would just add higher frequencies and CD quality is already at the limit of the human ear).

Matriks404 , 7 months ago

I do. Everyday.

diegooooooo , 7 months ago

Same. Everyday.

Buddahriffic , 7 months ago

Same, though not quite every day, but every time I get in my car.

tjsauce , 7 months ago

I used to use it, before buying a USB C headphone amp cause my headphones lacked bass

GARlactic , 7 months ago

Regularly. I refuse to buy a phone without a headphone jack.

sailingbythelee , 7 months ago

Here you go, wired headphone problem solved.

USB C to 3.5mm Jack: a.co/d/hgfC312

Tattorack , 7 months ago

I do.

I got a Bluetooth headphones with a backup jack. If the headphones run out while I’m using them, I use the wire that came with the headphones.

At home I have much larger headphones that I use for my PC, my Steam Deck, and yeah, my phone too. It’s 100% wired. I specifically went out of my way to buy wired logitech headphones because I got sick of Bluetooth headsets after many years of using one.

idunnololz , 7 months ago

My phone doesn’t have a headphone jack, but I plug in wired earphones a few times a week into it using a dongle. I wear them pretty much anytime I commute or go for a walk. I’ve been using the same pair of wired earphones since 2017 and have no intention to switch earphones. I love my earphones.

Slyme , 7 months ago

Using a Samsung Galaxy A10e over here, currently listening to music over wired earphones typing this

5in1k , 7 months ago

I can’t, they took it away.

ook_the_librarian , 7 months ago

Me. Sorry not much to add. I just like it.

Usernameblankface , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Very very rarely. I have a cheap Bluetooth adapter in my car, and I don’t regularly use headphones because everyone I care about is immediately annoyed when they see headphones over/in my ears.

GravityAce , 7 months ago

A couple times a week. Not dilligent about charging my headset makes the wired option really nice

scottyjoe9 , 7 months ago

The one time I missed it was when I was trying to sell a subwoofer which only has RCA inputs and I had to use my laptop top prove it worked to potential buyers. Other than that, I use Bluetooth exclusively.

HobbitFoot , 7 months ago

My current phone doesn’t have a headphone jack; I bought adapters since I use only wired headphones.