I just bought the Pixel 3a as a replacement for my Nexus 5x because I had two requirements:
- headphone jack
- no stupid notch
I love it and would strongly recommend it, it feels like the actual successor of the 5x
Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack
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#352I've been quite happy with my 6s, going to replace the battery again soon. But eventually iOS updates will cease coming, yet I absolutely cannot live without a headphone jack. Honest question: how would you even approach the Android? My smartphone is basically a more mobile extension of my laptop: sending document snapshots directly from the phone's camera to my MacOS desktop, starting iMessage conversations with any…
Probably not what you have in mind, but today I saw that KDE interacts well with a phone app to ease device interaction. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdecon...
I'm an oldtime KDE user and honestly I love using KDE connect. I never used a Apple product so I'm not familiar with how this ecosystem manages device interaction. On the other hand I'm too cheap to use something more than second a hand Lenovo, a Dell tower and a midrange Xiaomi.
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#353The lack of a headphone jack is the only reason I haven’t upgraded my iPhone 6s. I tend to use them at night, phone plugged in. I have at least five cables and don’t want to buy five dongles which I would lose. I would lose bluetooth earplugs in a matter of days. I just want to keep my system which works perfectly.
If at least they had put in two lightning connectors - these are not nearly as durable and start failing now after 5 years. That and the battery would be the only reason for me to get a new phone.
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#354this list is silly in that it doesn’t even mention the lg v series phones. not only do they have audio jacks, they have audio DACs built-in such that you get better sound with better headphones. they are really quite good with my buyer dynamic headphones.
the lg v35 and v40 are insanely good value right now, and the lg v50 is yet another sleeper flagship, high-end phone that does it all, aside from removable battery. however, unlike apple, lg offers a reasonable repair service directly with lg.
also, my lg v35 has the same water rating as the iPhone xs line and is thinner and lighter despite still retaining the audio jack and expandable storage.
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#355Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm not really sure what people are paying for when they get those $800+ beasts for phones. The main reason for us is the camera. We do not own a separate standalone camera anymore. You're not going to be able to take a time machine to take better pictures of the past, which is also why we keep replacing our phones every year. Also I prefer Apple's walled garden especially for the less tech savvy members of my exte…
> The main reason for us is the camera. We do not own a separate standalone camera anymore. The next question then, is: how good of a camera does the average person need? I'd fathom the vast majority of people viewing pictures are rapidly flipping through them on some app like Instagram. How much difference does the latest camera make for the average user, really?
I think there’s a lot of value in quality for personal archival. I keep full resolution originals of all the photos I take, and even doing that there are some I took with my iPhone 3GS a decade ago that I wish were higher quality now when I look through them. Things like ever improving displays magnify the problem further, revealing flaws and artifacts that wouldn’t have been noticeable back when the photos were taken.
It’s one of those things where better quality is never a bad thing. Eventually, it’ll get to the point where no further meaningful improvements can be derived from smartphone photography but we’re nowhere near that point today, even with the best smartphone cameras on the market.
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#356Apple’s lack of follow-up to the iPhone SE means the SE is still the best iPhone with a headphone jack. I honestly can’t believe Apple did an iPhone event without introducing a new model in that size. I know at least a dozen people (especially women) who had been saying for at least a year that until the SE had a replacement, they’d be using one, or swapping to Android. With the weakest offerings for iPhones yet, in…
Is Apple really not listening to it's customers, or just not listening to a small, vocal subset? I've really only heard complaints about the touchbar from software devs, which are not Apple's main customers. Apple's main customers are creatives and people that want to spend a lot of money for what amounts to a well made (MacBook pro keyboard issues notwithstanding), functional status symbols. Making a smaller, cheape…
I think the iPhone SE is a special case in that it's still supported to this day, and actually works fine in most if not all regards. Any user happy with it has no reason to be vocal.
Most people won't be making blogpost about how they're not interested in new phones when the one they have is still fine.
As an aside, I think people don't complain about the TouchBar because it's rarely used outside of the sound and brightness widgets. The majority of people aren't using escape or control keys like crazy, which could explain why mostly devs are in cries. There's no such split for using a phone, so when the iPhone SE is effectively dead and there's no gateway to a similar product, I expect the real wave of complain to rise up.
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#357For the small phone seekers, I've been eyeing the Sharp Aquos R2 Compact. Its a small phone (like they don't make them any more) with a headphone jack. Only problem in my opinion is the non-replaceable battery. Furthermore, since the phone is sold just in Japan, I'm fearing that the always-on shutter sound will still be active in Europe (I read it was sim dependent)
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#358Earlier quoted context omitted.
you forgot to take into account that most phones are replaced because they break - usually their display gets smashed. In this case budget phones come ahead too: Let's say you drop your phone after 2 years of use. If you got an iPhone X you need to spend around $300 on a screen replacement or sell if for $200. If you got a 2 year old $300 phone you just buy a new for $300 (or do the replacement for $150.) But anyway…
> you forgot to take into account that most phones are replaced because they break - usually their display gets smashed. Is that true? If so, how do you know it to be true?
look up some statistics. For example here they say that 72 million phones are damaged/lost/stolen in the US each year: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherelliott/2019/07/06/a...
Actually this article mentions phones being lost or stolen - another 2 cases where a cheap phone comes out much better.
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#359There are many people who's defence of headphone jack removal is 'Bluetooth works for me'. That's not the point though. You may like it, but this is about choice. By removing the audio jack, we have has a choice taken from us, and choice makes or brakes a device.
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#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
My single-issue is replaceable battery, but no new candidates are being fielded. I still have an LG V20. They're now on V50 I believe but haven't had replaceable batteries since the V20.
fair phone 3? it has a replaceable battery
I'm still on one of the few CDMA carriers out there, so that's not an option right now.