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Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
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Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#52My Librem 5 has a 3.5mm jack, microSD slot, removable battery, even removable modem and smartcard, and an OS I fully control. Couldn't be happier. The only thing that bothers me is that it's soon going to be 5 years old and there's still nothing better on the market, and even though it's still usable it's at a point where I expect it to start showing its age rather sooner than later.
Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#53I've got a Sony Xperia phone from last year. It's got a headphone jack and sdcard slot, waterproof, latest chipset etc. Plus a very close to vanilla Android. Yet they sold so few that Sony are pulling out of the US phone market. It seems to me that folks who say they want those things don't actually want them that much.
Sony hasn't been relevant in the phone industry since the transition to smartphones. Samsung, Huawei, Lenovo and others sell millions of phones with these features, but the flagship models still exclude them.
The early Sony Android phones were available in stores. I remember the first smartphone I got was a Sony, and, compared to a friend's Samsung, it was really lovely, great screen, better feeling build quality. Maybe they never competed on price? I didn't even think about the brand back then, just chose the nicest one in the store.
Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#54100%. And I only buy phones with these features.
Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#55I've got a Sony Xperia phone from last year. It's got a headphone jack and sdcard slot, waterproof, latest chipset etc. Plus a very close to vanilla Android. Yet they sold so few that Sony are pulling out of the US phone market. It seems to me that folks who say they want those things don't actually want them that much.
> It seems to me that folks who say they want those things don't actually want them that much.
On the contrary, we do. There's just not enough of us.
Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#56Where to move from Samsung A52? There is no alternative below 1000 EUR.
Alternative in what sense? I think most, if not all, modern Xperias have both headphone jacks and microSD slots. I'm not sure how they are when it comes to android updates though.
Worst. 2 years only with awful track record even for the security updates.
And the price is around 1400 eur.
Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#57Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#58I love bluetooth headphones for listening to video or even talking, but it has too much latency for realtime music performance (e.g. music making apps, or using your phone as a MIDI instrument with a controller). Having the wired headphone jack without the latency that (any) wireless protocol necessarily introduces is a huge deadlbreaking feature and I never see people defending bluetooth headsets mention it.
Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#59Where to move from Samsung A52? There is no alternative below 1000 EUR.
Check out this search tool: https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3 It's a great resource to find a new phone by feature set.
https://geizhals.at/?cat=umtsover
Even more filters...
Re: Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone
#60I'm going to side with Apple on this one. Transistors are basically free and ports are expensive and unreliable. I'm happy they've been moving to eSIMs. I'd be fine if my next iPhone only supported wireless charging. No ports is better.
I've certainly have had ports fail, but software is worse, and bluetooth is a lot of software. My spouse's phone was able to connect to our van for some time, then a phone software update broke it, and it took 3 months for them to push a new one that fixed it. If it was a wired 4-pin connection for handsfree audio and either port failed, it would probably take less time to get it fixed. (Yes, a 4-pin connection probably leaves out features from Bluetooth, but no agency to fix problems is worse)
I've yet to have a SIM fail on me, and I don't see why I would want to lose out on the convenience of removing the SIM from old phone, and inserting it into the new one. Moving an eSIM requires interaction with the carrier as I understand it.