A 1% problem. I upgrade my budget Android (ie < GBP150) every 3ish years. Never had this issue.
Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack
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#52I'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…
My apple phones have consistently been good for 3-4 years, making the yearly outlay similar. The differences aren't in the CPU features but rather the screen and camera features. The high end apple phone from two years ago still has a better screen than the budget android today and the camera is probably better as well - perhaps equal at worst. No, I don't have a headphone jack (and yes, it is annoying) but it isn't…
Changing phone every year is kind of crazy though, so I'm not sure you are comparing with a normal user. I change maybe every five years. Always on the low end models and happy to do so.
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#53Still rocking my iPhone SE. Gonna keep using it until it no longer charges, the headphone port dies, or Apple stops putting out iOS updates for it.
I have the same phone, and in fact I purchased it used when I accidentally dropped my old SE into my coffee.
It's small, is usable as a phone and gps, and has a headphone jack (something I never thought I'd consider a feature...).
Why in the world would I change?
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#54I'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…
Absolutely concur. And I'm only on a G6, a standard one I picked up some months ago at a clearance sale for ~nothing because Android was getting absurdly cranky about hardware limitations on my old phone. No idea why I would want a heftier model.
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#55Why is it so hard to just use a dongle? I use old-school wired studio headphones with my iPhone... I just leave the dongle that came with the phone on them.
if you only use that pair on headphones for your phone, it's only a minor inconvenience to just keep it attached to the headphones. if not, it becomes yet another small item that you can forget or lose.
the real issue with dongles from my perspective is that they move the DAC out of the phone. manufacturers already tend to cut corners with onboard DACs, and they're likely to use even worse components in a $5 dongle.
in theory, usb-c could enable headphone manufacturers to move the DAC to the headphones themselves and use much better components than a mass market phone would. unfortunately I think the future is probably "good enough" but convenient wireless protocols.
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#56Still rocking my iPhone SE. Gonna keep using it until it no longer charges, the headphone port dies, or Apple stops putting out iOS updates for it.
Same. Unfortunately, it looks like iOS 13 will be the last one to support it
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#57I'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+?
I've probably taken under 50 photos this year so I am not a good reference point for camera features. I haven't been disappointed with the photos but I also probably have no idea what I'm missing.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like this? https://www.geargeek.co.uk/type-c-to-3-5mm-headphone-jack-au...
Sure, dongles give you the option when the headphone jack is removed. It's just one more thing to remember to bring and possibly lose though. I like being able to grab just the phone and earbud headphones and not have to worry about it.
You could glue the dongle to the headphones.
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#59the pixel 3a is made with non-gorilla glass. didnt we learn like 10 years ago thats a bad idea on a phone? my keys scratched it up in a single day and the whole thing shattered within a couple of weeks. garbage. edit: i know people are saying its dragontail which is supposedly as strong as gorilla. well empirically speaking, i can say that is false; the same key scratches my pixel 3a easily but doesnt leave a mark on…
unless your keys are made of an unusual material, it's pretty unlikely that they scratched the glass on your phone. it's much more likely that you had sand in your pocket.
Nyaaaaaah!
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#60I 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.
> Bluetooth 5.0 supports 2 devices being output at once.
Ok that's good. But do devices actually support it?
E.g. Bluetooth historically had flaky software support on Android, and sadly I can't even imagine that they'd get anything in that 5.0 spec correct that's outside the main usecase of single person listens to audio.
> and ask if you know a lot of people who use 2 headphones on a single phone
In e.g. the subway I often see people listening in pairs using a single headset. I think it's not a really strange feature to ask for.