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galoisghost ,
@galoisghost@aussie.zone avatar

the what?

SpaceMan9000 ,

I use both practically daily.

Jonny ,
@Jonny@kbin.social avatar

Until I got a phone without one, I used it all the time. But now I have fully switched to Bluetooth. The price pot me off a lot, but my tozo A3s are are both cheap enough and good enough that I am happy to have made the switch.

NounsAndWords ,

I used to use it every day until I realized my new phone doesn’t have one. Now I still use wired headphones for music when I’m near my computer. I have bluetooth earbuds that work…okay, but I have to deal with one earbud not connecting, or making sure I haven’t lost one, or I take one out for a second to hear something and the music just stops, or it just doesn’t connect to begin with, or I want to switch between two devices and it would be sooo much easier to just unplug something and plug it back in than to go through settings, unpair/re-pair between two devices, and hope that it actually worked the first time.

CalamityBalls ,

I do, but rarely. Maybe every other month or so. The situations I do use it, I've been thankful that I avoided phones without a jack. I like having appropriate tools at my disposal, and bluetooth will never be universally applicable.

IcyEcho ,

I used to use mine almost every day with the same set of earbuds that I’ve had for probably close to a decade at this point. Since getting a phone without a jack, I listen to music significantly less now which is quite upsetting. I’m not the type to use the speaker on the phone since I’ve always seen that as rude, and the wireless earbuds that I have are just inconvenient to use at best and not the same quality compared to the wired ones (That’s not to say that they’re poor quality but I can absolutely tell the difference on my favourite songs).

I’ve been very tempted to just go back to my old phone once the contract on my current one has ended if modern phones are going to move away from 3.5mm jacks.

It has been an excellent universal standard for decades and the arguments about it being obsolete make no sense as it isn’t being replaced by something superior, it’s just being deleted entirely and a cumbersome workaround is being sold as a positive thing. The only real argument I can see for deleting the jack is that it saves the manufacturers a couple of pennies per unit.

Zellith ,

It's also the ariel for my radio so..

Dremor ,
@Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

I had wired headphones, went to a good wireless one (Sony WH-1000XM3), and I will never go back.

Most people I know that want the headphones jack back want it to be able to use good quality wired headphones they already own, mainly because they can’t afford (or just don’t want to buy) a good quality wireless one.

Seriously. If you can buy a new mid-range smartphone, you have enough to buy premium wireless headphones. If you can’t, most cheap smartphones have audio jacks. Just skip this smartphone generation to buy good wireless headphones and you are set for years.

Zak ,
@Zak@lemmy.world avatar

I do.

I don’t use it every day because I’m at my PC a lot on a normal day, and I use wired headphones plugged in to that instead. I do use it often when traveling, both for IEM-style earbuds that block most external noise, and to plug into rental cars, family members’ cars, etc… with an aux cable. Yes, Bluetooth is an option on most newer cars, but it’s slower to set up than a cable, and not all the cars I end up driving are newer.

fpslem ,

Agree with this, a headphone jack is occasionally very useful, especially when traveling. I had a Google Pixel without a headphone jack and I was surprised how much I missed it, I got an adapter just to restore that functionality.

Olap ,

Weekly. And I’ve got bluetooth drivers on daily too. Drop the 3.5mm and you drop my purchase!

MicrowavedTea ,

I thought I’d use it when I got my phone but I’ve since found Bluetooth headphones that are actually convenient so I don’t. Now this headphone form factor is dying so I might go back to wired once they stop working. I hope the jack still exists by then.

Shayeta ,

You do realise that making a post like this makes wired users more likely to reply? I use wired daily, wireless too big and stuffy.

moonleay OP ,

Good argument. But isn’t that always the case when asking if ppl are / aren’t into a topic? A person, who is invested in the topic is way more likely to reply. I agree with you, but I don’t know how I could’ve avoided said issue.

Khanzarate ,

You can’t really avoid it in any easy way. If you could, the field of statistics would get a decent amount simpler. The only way to deal with the bias is with a survey pulled from random people, which you can’t really do easily here.

But this one will have a lot of bias, all the same.

Plum ,
@Plum@lemmy.world avatar

Reducing bias is tricky.

You want engagement from a. Mobile users who b. Use headphones c. With their phone, and the type of headphone connection is the end goal.

“How often do you use headphones with your phone, and are they wired/wireless” is clonky, but gets everything out there without too much leading. People more awake than me can help more.

*I use wired $9 shitty earbuds, daily. The Bluetooth ones are nice, but I lose them and the battery life sucks, and it’s a hassle.

daltotron ,

You know I think the way you eliminate that is less by relying on the frequency of use, and more by relying on the merits of the argument being had itself. A good part of this is gonna be calculated on whether or not the tradeoff of having an aux jack is worth it. For the consumer, this is needlessly stupid and there are like no phones now that have one, you have a limited selection and that sucks, but in terms of the actual core technology I really can’t see why you wouldn’t have one. The idea that it wastes the 2cm^3^ of space is kind of a poor argument, imo, when we’ve been switching from palm sized phones with bezels and home buttons, to phones that now stick out of my sweatpants pockets and have hole punch cameras and like four cameras on the back and somehow have less features. None of the market makes a lick of sense, right now, it all seems like manufactured demand and monopoly to me.

blanketswithsmallpox ,

Welcome to the internet.

Anamana ,

Airpods are too big and stuffy?

theKalash ,

Yup, I use it regularly.

Iseja ,

Used to use it daily but dropped it a few too many times with a cable inserted and now it can only be used in the car in a very specific angle.

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I do every time I use earphones. For me, it is a must.

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