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Earbuds
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We used to have earbuds that don't need to be charged because they had a headphone jack, didn't get lost so easily because they had a cord attached to a headphone jack, never lost the bluetooth connection because they had a headphone jack, and they cost less because they had a headphone jack. https://bsky.app/profile/daisyfm.bsky.social/post/3l3mfjc6sn62k
I really can't stand people that make this argument, I felt the same way at first, but then I actually started using Bluetooth headphones and they are frankly just better, in almost every way.
And if you really want wired headphones still, you can just buy an inline adapter for like £2.
Reception cuts out of I turn wrong. Headphone batteries are usually flat when I decide I want to listen to something or take a call. Phone wants to pair with every other BT device except the headphones (save for the time it somehow forgets them and I have to dive into the menu and re-pair). Old phone's BT is starting to get flaky. So much latency no matter what. Sound quality still not there yet.
I do like not having a cord, but literally everything else about bt headphones is a step backwards against simplicity & longevity. I have minidisc equipment from the early oughts that still sounds fantastic on the PortaPros I also got at that time.
Also you kids get off my lawn, apparently
Don't take this the wrong way but it sounds like the last time you tried Bluetooth headphones was 2012
No wrong way to take it - my complaints do sound like ye olden days of BT.
I have a pair of Shockz bone conductors and a MiniRig 4, both of which I enjoy quite a bit. I have also run into all of these issues in the past year. My post was mostly meant to counter the statement that Bluetooth is so far ahead of old tech. Sure it's great, but like any tech, it has fail points
I have a bunch of different wired headphones (an embarrassing number of them) and they just don't fail. I've never had a headphone jack fail on me. The sound is great - no batteries, no connection time, no latency, no compression, literally plug & play. There just isn't much that can go wrong with them, so for me, BT is a convenience (when I don't feel like having a cord) but not necessarily an improvement
The key being: for me. Everyone else, if you love BT, keep enjoying it
Yeah, if you ignore the massive price difference and the fact that they need to be replaced periodically because rechargeable batteries usually only last a few years at most.
The price difference isn't really that big you can get a decent pair of anger earphones for £15 on amazon.
Personally my wireless ones last several times longer than any wired headphones I've had, as the cable would eventually break and I would have to do the think where you wrap the cable a certain way or else one earbud wouldn't work.
Working with wired buds is insanely frustrating. They would always get tangled somewhere, they got tangled every time i had to squad down. The ones i have now last over 9 or so hours, which is more than my work day, with the case i can charge them like 3 or 4 times, when they run out of juice, i can recharge them in like 15 minutes to last another 2 or so hours. They are more comfortable, most of the time i forget that they are in. They obviously weren't cheap, but i would pay even more to not have to deal with these dumb ass wires everyone seems to love so much.
To quote the original writer of the post above, in the thread which continues from it:
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I don't want my phone to be thicker, and I don't care for having something in my phone I don't use now. Just like I dint care about having serial ports or VGA ports on my new TVs.
Exactly. Get the adapter and don't lose it. Now, if companies made it impossible to wire in audio, well that would be totally insane.
Literally every single phone I've had where I use a USB C headphone adapter, the audio function just stops working eventually. Charging is fine, but audio just quits. I don't even use the port to charge this phone, I use a pad, but the audio has stopped working through USB. It's not a replacement.
Bluetooth earbuds might be better than wired earbuds. Definitely not some headphones.
There are also USB-C earbuds. I've kept a pair in the glove box in case I'm out and don't have my wireless in my pocket. My wireless are not a part of my every day carry, so it's nice to have a backup. I'm grateful to have them when I need them, but I HATE using them now that I have grown accostomed to true wireless.