[POLL] Do you use/require a headphone jack on your phone?
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Alternatively, if your current phone doesn't have a headphone jack, do you wish it did?
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Alternatively, if your current phone doesn't have a headphone jack, do you wish it did?
Wireless are more convenient for most use cases. I like the compactness of wireless earbuds, no tangled wires, and the charging case. I can even use just one bud at a time.
However, wired headphones have some advantages in rare use cases that wireless can't handle yet:
connecting two headsets at once so 2 people han watch a movie on a plane. Bluetooth can stream sound to only one device at a time (at least on android). With Jack you can just use a splitter
switching between devices easily. Just unplug and plug where you want it. With Bluetooth you have disconnect and reconnect.
you can easily plug it into aux without any pairing process, just plug and play. With rental cars i noticed the device memory is often full and i have to remove a device before pairing. Not as seamless as audio jack for once off uses.
I don't mind missing audio jack, but at least make usb c dongles interchangeable. Iirc you can't use the same dongles on samsung and Pixel device. I ordered one that did not work.
Batteries are fun when they're the reason your $200 pair of headphones needs to be tossed out.
Dog chewed your headphones or left them on the plane/bus/taxi/bench/roof ? $200 is way more than $10 .
Tangled wires? That's like saying "I hate arms because they can't turn all the way around". And if your cables are still getting tangled, ask a millennial to show you how to not tangle them when you jam them in your pocket.
The thing about USB C dongles is that some contain their own DAC and others don't.
The former is already universal so what you're asking for exists but these are generally more expensive and the quality may not be as good as a pass through adapter if your phone has its own built-in.
On a different point about streaming to multiple devices, my phone (Realme) has a feature to use both the jack and Bluetooth headphones simultaneously which is great for the sharing use case without a splitter.
Would be great if it also supported multiple Bluetooth audio simultaneously.