I'm a single-issue voter when it comes to cell phones - if it doesn't have a headphone jack, I won't be buying it.
Same here. #nojacknobuy
Wireless charging is also essential, because I've had too many worn out or damaged USB jacks.
Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack
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#152I'm a single-issue voter when it comes to cell phones - if it doesn't have a headphone jack, I won't be buying it.
I used to be like that about physical keyboards on smartphones, but I gave up that battle years ago. Same with headphone jacks.
All I want now is more than one USB input! That works as headphone jack anyway.
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#153Sorry but this list is trash. Every smartphone on that list was overpriced and runs some horrid vendor customized version of Android that's sure to become obsolete because the vendors will stop updating it with a year or two. the one that was around $200 (Motorola) had specs way worse than the phone I'm using (Nokia 2.2) to type this message, which is $70 cheaper than the Motorola and has a headphone jack btw.
> Every smartphone on that list was overpriced and runs some horrid vendor customized version of Android Literally the first phone on the list: "Pixel 3A and 3A XL" (by google).
Not only that but I've had LG G series phones for years (G2, G5, and now the G7) and never lost support within my reasonable time owning each model phone.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
but, why? I sincerely don't understand why the headphone jack is the hill that so many people choose to die on. The $9 lightning to 3.5mm dongle has worked perfectly for me, as has my USB-c to 3.5mm dongle.
Because people don't want to fuck around with a stupid dongle to have a feature that the phone should have had in the first place. Dongles get lost, and you also can't charge the phone and use the dongle at the same time. Maybe you don't think it's a big deal, but when the asking price of the device is $1k, any little annoyance like that is a legitimate deal-breaker: for that much money, it should have everything, in…
I have pretty much never charged my phone and used it at the same time. The cord is too short, and cords that are long enough are unwieldy. Plus, the cord sticks out right where my hand wants to hold the phone.
Is this something people actually do in any situation except low-power emergencies?
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
but, why? I sincerely don't understand why the headphone jack is the hill that so many people choose to die on. The $9 lightning to 3.5mm dongle has worked perfectly for me, as has my USB-c to 3.5mm dongle.
Because people don't want to fuck around with a stupid dongle to have a feature that the phone should have had in the first place. Dongles get lost, and you also can't charge the phone and use the dongle at the same time. Maybe you don't think it's a big deal, but when the asking price of the device is $1k, any little annoyance like that is a legitimate deal-breaker: for that much money, it should have everything, in…
The cost of a headphone jack at scale is a few cents. I'm pretty sure it's less about the cost and more about size/thickness, with moisture sealing as possibly a secondary concern.
If you say that the battery is a little bigger because the internals of the phone didn't need to accommodate a headphone jack, does that make you feel any better? How often do you use not-your-regular-headphones (which would just have dongle on them permanently) vs using the battery down to the final 10%?
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#156Why is it so hard to just use a dongle? I use old-school wired studio headphones with my iPhone... I just leave the dongle that came with the phone on them.
Because I'd need three dongles for home/office/car when a couple bucks of copper does the job.
Personally, I just stopped using my phone as an audio device. The only thing I listen to on it are videos, and I don't plug in headphones for that.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just last night I met some new people at a bar/restaurant, we went back to one of their places, and spent the evening drinking tequila while passing around an aux cable to share music while we hung out and talked for hours. And many, many times I've been a passenger in a car that only has an aux cable for listening to music, and I've been able to put on music. I realized how silly it would've been to be unable to par…
Or how silly it is you're using wires when bluetooth speakers and bluetooth-enabled radios have been around for the past 10 years or so...
Yeah, sure sounds like fun doing the entire bluetooth "oh, let me pair, wait it's not coming up in my list, maybe you need to unpair first..." etc. dance over and over instead of just swapping out a cable in a second.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Every smartphone on that list was overpriced and runs some horrid vendor customized version of Android Literally the first phone on the list: "Pixel 3A and 3A XL" (by google).
Not only that but I've had LG G series phones for years (G2, G5, and now the G7) and never lost support within my reasonable time owning each model phone.
Also generally good third party ROM availability! Still happily rocking a G5 after switching from a G4 for the USB-C connector.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
But I only need 90MB/s for music. Or if the phone can already determine unused apps to offload, it could move them to cold slow storage instead.
I don't disagree about offloading, but comparing the cost of SDXC to NAND does not make sense.
It does makes sense to complains about the price difference when you don't need 1,600+ MB/s speed for what you want to put on it.
He want 128 GB for his MP3, it doesn't make sense he can't get it when USB stick of that size are that cheap.
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#160I really like my Nokia 8 (and its headphone jack). Much cheaper than most devices on that list, but easily up there with them in terms of every day perceived performance.