I'm surprised that the OnePlus 6 is not in this list. It is the best smartphone I have owned so far and it has a headphone jack.
There is no way for this list to be exhaustive anyway, there are still a lot of models with a headphone jack (but this trend is indeed annoying).
Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack
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#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
I sometimes can’t believe that after 3 years people are still feeling hurt about this thing. I mean, go ahead and vote with your wallet but wow, what a hill to choose to die on! I’ve been through the obsolescence of floppy disks, cassette tapes, optical media/drives, DB9 serial ports, parallel printer ports, composite video, RCA audio jacks, VGA and countless other display output jacks, yet this silly 3.5mm headphone…
> invest in a decent pair of BT headphones and never worry about it again Except, everyday, when you need to charge them? And when you need to enable/disable the BT radio (unless you keep it always on but in that case the autonomy of the phone suffers). I like my bone conduction BT headphones and use them almost everyday, but a passive "dumb" wired solution is very convenient and removing it is a strict downgrade. At…
There is a middle ground that is at some level really stupid but functional in that edge case.
You can buy BT to 3.5mm adapters that charge with USB-C. Most of the time charge isn’t an issue so you get the benefits of wireless headphones but in a pinch you can charge the adapter off your phone.
Is it dumb to use BT for two devices physically plugged into one another — yes. Does it work for the few times it’s needed — absolutely!
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#303I'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…
Echoing sibling comments: camera, camera, camera.
Anecdata as to whether it's really necessary to have a very good camera backed by powerful hard/software -- for me personally, camera quality became my #1 priority after having a baby, & exact same with everyone I know in similar position. But regardless of whether they have family or not, peeps seem to like being able to take good looking photos and videos, and the current manufacturer war over cameras means if you can afford to spend a bit more then the market is fantastic.
Edit: also, acquisition of powerful status symbols via a monthly fee that is only slightly higher than the monthly fee for less powerful status symbols.
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I'm a dev and like the touch bar. Ask me anything
When your hand accidentally touches that miniature touch screen and random things happen on your mac how do you control the urge to hurl it across a room?
When would my hand accidentally touch the touch bar that sits above the keyboard? I literally don't think this has ever happened to me, I'm being honest
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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.
Curious why you want this? Are you replacing the battery multiple times per day, rather than charging?
Not OP, but for me it's a longevity thing. With a user-replacable battery, about 2 years after purchase I can simply order a compatible battery, pop it in the phone in a one-minute procedure, and carry on for another 2+ years. The battery will wear out, there's just no getting around that, but today's phones are so powerful that the rest of it isn't necessarily obsolete by that point. Especially not on Android, and especially if you aren't using your phone to do heavy tasks like gaming and media constantly.
It's not impossible to get by without one, but personally I don't have the soldering skills to replace a modern battery (parts are just a bit smaller than I trust myself with) so that's going to be a repair charge when my current phone's battery wears down in a year or so. No reason to replace the whole phone at that point, it still runs great and does everything I need it to do. Why waste the money?
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
I sometimes can’t believe that after 3 years people are still feeling hurt about this thing. I mean, go ahead and vote with your wallet but wow, what a hill to choose to die on! I’ve been through the obsolescence of floppy disks, cassette tapes, optical media/drives, DB9 serial ports, parallel printer ports, composite video, RCA audio jacks, VGA and countless other display output jacks, yet this silly 3.5mm headphone…
> optical media/drives They still make CDs, and in fact they're the only way to get many albums in a lossless digital format with no DRM. > RCA audio jacks You must not own a nice stereo amplifier. These are still the norm. > VGA 90% of the classrooms at the university I work at have projectors with VGA only input. While it doesn't matter to me personally, I can see why some people want their laptop to be able to con…
I mean dongle hell is pretty annoying but I do see the argument against having a bunch of ports when there’s an “everything if you wire the pins right” port.
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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…
There are 26 million software developers in the world, virtually all of them own a work or personal laptop (many both), and they have a much higher percentage of owning Macs vs the normal distribution. Apple "only" sells 18M laptops a year. Software developers likely account for 1/4th (or more) of their MacBook sales.
iOS development in particular seems to be a huge contributor to this.
Where, 15 years ago, I entered the software industry, Macs were virtually non existent in the workplace, I now use one - along with about 25 other people on my floor.
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#308I'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.
No one likes a quitter. ;-)
They'll have to pry the QWERTY keypad and headphone jack[1] from my cold, dead hands...or stop Android security updates.
[1] https://blackberrymobile.com/us/product/blackberry-key2/
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#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
When your hand accidentally touches that miniature touch screen and random things happen on your mac how do you control the urge to hurl it across a room?
When would my hand accidentally touch the touch bar that sits above the keyboard? I literally don't think this has ever happened to me, I'm being honest
Weird, happens to me all the time, reaching for things on my desk, grabbing the laptop, resting my hand in the slightly wrong place.
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#310LG V30+ > LG has crafted the best-sounding headphone audio in any smartphone yet. The V30’s quad-DAC audio system is a legitimate technological advancement that delivers real joy https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/16/16481024/lg-v30-headphon...
All of LG’s phones either have bootloop issues, or display issues. It’s been consistent for years. If I could trust them, I would check this out. I got burned with the V10, and one of my friends got burned with the V20. Check their forums, it’s crazy.
It was only for about 2 years during the V10 and G4. I'm still using a V20 and it has not bootloop, and is probably effected by it. I did have my G4 bootloop and they did fix it out of warranty.