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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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Post by goda90 »

zknz wrote: post #236
goda90 wrote: post #66

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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?

I swap it out once a day, and charge the extra batteries in a charger. This way I can carry backup power that's relatively small compared to most general battery packs. Also I'm putting less strain on my USB-C port, which I've had fail on other phones. Lastly, some people advocate doing it this way because fast charging tends to create a lot of heat, and that heat might damage the phone.

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Post by shifto »

lostgame wrote: post #216

Apple’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…

> intense consumer demand for such a product

Besides on HN I never hear anyone wanting an SE.

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Post by magduf »

dragonsngoblins wrote: post #263
Kerrick wrote: post #154

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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?

Wanting to listen to music on your phone that is plugged in at your desk seems like a pretty reasonable use case to me

Yep, I've done this many times.

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Post by magduf »

Larrikin wrote: post #318
mikepurvis wrote: post #155

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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 dong…

Its infuriating to me that Sony led the way with high end waterproof phones. They had a relatively stock Android experience and pretty much perfected the water proof phone with an open headphone jack. Then Apple came out with a phone without a headphone jack and they just dropped the head phone jack from all of their worthwhile phones. I was a regular Sony buyer for years because of them being waterproof, but relucta…

The Samsung Galaxy S5 was waterproof too, and had a headphone jack.

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Post by penagwin »

wlesieutre wrote: post #35
penagwin wrote: post #14

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I worked in a phone/computer repair store, based on anecdotal research on glass screen protectors, this isn't necessary anymore. I'm sure this applies to many phones (haven't tested specific ones) but the glass screen protectors refused to scratch for me, I tried screw driver tips, razors, as hard as I could against a flat desk. If I applied enough concentrated force (or jabbed it) it would brake as expected, but any…

Having them in the same pocket I'd be worried about the force that could get applied by sitting down in a tight pair of pants with a modern-sized phone. The sort of situation that caused the "bendgate" problems. Maybe it's over cautious, but with phones costing $1000 I'd rather not mess around with it. And I don't love the glass screen protectors, had one on my phone briefly and it seemed like it screwed up the image…

What type of phone? You might want to try a different screen protector - every well applied glass screen protector I've seen on iPhones has been nearly indistinguishable from the glass screen (and I'm really particular about mine).

We did have issues on the Galaxy phones with that edge though, we could never get the screen protector to stick properly.

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Post by em-bee »

Seb-C wrote: post #301

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).

indeed, i found the list rather underwhelming. i just bought a OnePlus 5t. i didn't get a 6 because it was not supported by /e/ ( https://e.foundation )

those were effectively the two criteria: /e/ support, and a headphone jack (also 128GB of space and a price limit of $300)

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Post by themeiguoren »

magduf wrote: post #95
wilsonnb3 wrote: post #83

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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 still use an SE but I really don’t get this complaint against upgrading. Just keep the dongle permanently on the end of your headphone cable, and use one that splits out to a lightening charger as well. I’m seeing one for under 10 bucks on Amazon. Really a non-issue.

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Post by lostgame »

8note wrote: post #289
CDSlice wrote: post #224

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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…

requiring an extra adapter to connect you phone to your laptop really goes against the "it just works" creed

It’s laughable.

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Post by paulie_a »

Carpetsmoker wrote: post #258
lostgame wrote: post #216

Apple’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…

The only reason I have an iPhone SE is because it's the only small-ish phone that's actually supported. I don't even like all this Apple iOS crap, but I just want a small phone for the 9 apps I use + phone and camera. I previously had a Sony XZ compact, but they stopped making those too :-/ (I got a the SE secondhand a few months ago). This article calls the SE "tiny, aging, probably almost obsolete throwback", but I…

The pixel has a small profile and is pure Android and a flagship phone
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