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Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack

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Re: Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack

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I've been using the budget Moto G+ line for the past four years. I can upgrade my phone every year around Black Friday and get the latest model for sub $200. The older phones still work well and get handed down to my less tech savvy family members. I'm not really sure what people are paying for when they get those $800+ beasts for phones. When I use a friend's I can tell they are higher quality; either they feel more…

Pixel camera is pretty amazing/magical. How is the camera app on the Moto G+?

Re: Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack

#23
I got a Nokia 7.1 for around $300 and it has the headphone jack and a Micro SD slot, another feature that phone makers are getting rid of...

Phone memory is terrible these days, I have a huge collection of Mp3s and wav files I don't want to give up, despite bluetooth stuttering at times in my car.

Putting low onboard memory on modern phones should be a crime when USB sticks with 128GB plus are selling for $15... They do that to boost streaming and data charges... It's like car makers intentionally putting a smaller gas tank in a car if carmakers also owned the gas stations.

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post #16

I sincerely hope that headphone jacks will return as a fad. Not everyone has bluetooth wireless charging everything, nor do many want that. If you must get rid of the 3.5mm port, why not have dual USB-C to charge and listen at once?

Like this? https://www.geargeek.co.uk/type-c-to-3-5mm-headphone-jack-au...

Re: Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack

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I got a Nokia 7.1 for around $300 and it has the headphone jack and a Micro SD slot, another feature that phone makers are getting rid of... Phone memory is terrible these days, I have a huge collection of Mp3s and wav files I don't want to give up, despite bluetooth stuttering at times in my car. Putting low onboard memory on modern phones should be a crime when USB sticks with 128GB plus are selling for $15... They…

1,600+ MB/s read on iPhone Xs NAND vs 90 MB/s read on an SDXC card. Of course the USB sticks and the like are cheaper, they're not comparable at all.

Re: Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack

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post #21

I was wondering, how do people connect two headphones to a single phone? Is that possible with Bluetooth or any other connection method that's not a headphone jack? It seems to me that some people got sloppy with the requirements analysis of their connector.

It's definitely possible to have multiple Bluetooth peripherals on a single device in the general case (see: laptop with wireless keyboard and headphones). So that would just come down to software on a per-phone basis (and may or may not be a feature an app could add if it's not supported baseline).

Re: Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack

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post #21

I was wondering, how do people connect two headphones to a single phone? Is that possible with Bluetooth or any other connection method that's not a headphone jack? It seems to me that some people got sloppy with the requirements analysis of their connector.

Bluetooth 5.0 supports 2 devices being output at once.

> It seems to me that some people got sloppy with the requirements analysis of their connector.

I guess I'd have to throw this back at you and ask if you know a lot of people who use 2 headphones on a single phone. Considering phones are largely personal items, I feel like that was probably a super small subset of the user base.

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