I still use 3.5mm auxiliary cables on a daily basis. Not phased out quite yet.
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Sony xPeria 6 user here still using aux for headphones
I recently bought an MP3 player because I was so sick of Sonos fucking me around, messing with Bluetooth for a few minutes every time I wanted to play a song, losing or breaking my USBC to aux adaptors, no local storage for music, subscriptions, etc.
$100 and this thing has dual DAC chips, can be used as a desktop DAC, has a micro SD card slot, 3.5 AND 4.4mm aux output, and USBC rechargeable. (And Bluetooth but I'm not touching that.) It's genuinely so good that I'm thinking about dumping all "smart" crap and just going full Y2K with my tech.
I refuse to buy a phone without a headphone jack. They already stole our IR blaster, I refuse to let them take more
I can live without the headphone jack, no micro SD card is the bigger sin, limiting you to your phones built in storage for no reason other than pure greed is infuriating
I haven't needed the extra storage of the micro SD since what feels like forever. My current phone has 128GB, I'm only using half of it and I have hardly deleted anything from it in something like 2 years.
I have broken 4 micro SDs in the last 2 years. Thsnkfully, "broken" means set to read-only mods, so i could recover it. But yeah. I use it a lot.
This shows just shitty SD cards are for storage that's used a lot. Even the expensive ones for high intensity use burn out really fast.
I also had what appeared be too much storage.
Then I got 2 cats.
Now it says 99% full.
I've been self-hosting my own storage backup with Immich, and it's been a game changer for me. It's been an improvement over swapping out microsd cards and keeping track of what is stored where.
last year almost checked out a phone without jack at the carrier's store, noticed on time, turned around and got a model with lower specs but had a jack
The Clicks Communicator BB clone looks to have a Jack. It's in the running!!
I like both. wireless for the convenience, wired for the quality n latency. Imagine a guitar effects rack n all pedals are connected via bluetooth. Every note would have a 3-5 business day delay. BUT not having the option to choose is a real bummer.
That's kind of an insane comparison. Input delay when using wireless headphones to listen to music is essentially meaningless. At worst it means it takes an additional 1/2 of a second for the song to start.
Input delay when you're actually playing music is of utmost importance because there is a delay on everything you do. It makes it impossible to keep rhythm.
It's two completely different scenarios
Yeah, but people play games on their phones, and video syncing to wireless earphone latency, is extra software that the app has to work around.
And all this, because some industry leaders want to extort you for 50 extra bucks for headphones, instead of putting the 0.70 cents jack on your phone.
The point, is the senselessness of the inconvenience the customer goes through, not how big or small the inconvenience is.
It's proof the designer doesn't have your interest in mind, and will take active steps to make your life worse, big or small, if they can get 10 more bucks out of you that way.
I genuinely don't understand the obsession. I don't miss having a cord on my headphones even a little bit.
I separated an extra pair of headphones for me and once I wanted to use them I noticed my phone has no headphone jack
If you really want to use wired headphones with your phone, why not have one of these permanently connected to the end of the cable?
Shouldn't need one as all new phones besides foldables have the space to fit a DAC and headphone jack.
My new phone I preordered arriving hopefully in December will have a headphone jack once again. Can't wait for the clicks communicator.
Yeah! Thing is, though, that then I wouldn't be able to charge my phone while listening from my headphones...
I have an idea! Why don't companies just add a second usb-c port, so we can plug this adapter into one of the two, and charge from the second one? That'd be so convenient!
Or you could use both to charge faster B)
Not entirely how electricity works, but I guess? Maybe for unstable chargers to be more consistent?
These have saved my life but it's a PITA that you can't charge and listen at the same time :/
There are also split adapters that have both a 3,5mm and a USB-C charging port.
I really prefer my wireless anyway. I used to go through a pair of headphobes every month, because the cables got fucked from being tangled in my pocket. Now I've had the same pair of buds for 5 years, with much better sound quality than what I had before