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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by moonleay@feddit.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

On a recent post, there were a lot of comments, which said that they were missing the headphones on newer mobile devices.

How many actually use the headphone jack?

I ask, because I have one on my phone, since I really wanted one, but I rarely use it. Like Tops 1/Month.

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[-] Senex@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Daily. Mostly Spotify and Youtube or when I don't want to listen to my wife.

[-] AdventureSpoon@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Always. Everything besides the cell tower connection happens wired. No Bluetooth or WiFi .

[-] FishFace@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I use mine fairly often. I don't actually listen to music all that much but sometimes I do when my phone is my only data source, and I don't have wireless headphones.

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I bought 2 different Bluetooth earphones that I ended up rarely ever using and instead use my standard quality cable headphones.

[-] bluetardis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I do. Every day. Decent headphones that block a lot of outside noise but don’t need a battery.

Constantly thankful that I don’t have to find a Bluetooth setup.

Contentious part is that I listen to high quality (generally lossless) ripped music. Bluetooth and some adapters do weird things with compression and you can really hear it.

[-] Revonult@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

If mine had one I would use it everyday. Idk why but I love wired headphones wah more than earbuds.

[-] learningduck@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Not at all. Bluetooth earbuds are too convenient for me. I could just leave my phone anywhere in the house playing podcasts while playing with my baby.

[-] nadiaraven@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I never use my headphone jack. I don't care if my next phone has one. Having wires attached to my phone is enormously inconvenient to me. Plus I have a thing where I need to be able to hear what's going on around me, so I bought some Bose sunglasses and put prescription lenses in them. I love them. They definitely sacrifice on the bass, but I can wear them at work and still hear if someone knocks on my door or starts talking to me. They last about 5 or 6 hours and charge pretty quickly. I hardly ever have to charge them more than once per night.

[-] RinseDrizzle@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Quite frequently for sure. I'm a musician in a band, a DJ, and working on becoming more of a producer. Plugging in for amplifying or sampling happens fairly often. Being an audiophile, I'm also partial to wired connections over Bluetooth which can be more unreliable in performance settings. Never wanted to mess with battery powered phones too. Already have charger fatigue pretty bad.

[-] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

3 times a week for about 2 hours each.

[-] Ejh3k@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I had wired headphones for very specific times, and since my new phone doesn't have the jack I'm not fully sure how I'll deal in those situations.

[-] Iseja@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Used to use it daily but dropped it a few too many times with a cable inserted and now it can only be used in the car in a very specific angle.

[-] lorty@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I bought a new phone and took about a month to realize it doesn't have a headphone jack, so yeah.

[-] benvars@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Weekly, since i moved i don't really care how much noise i make, but i still use my wired headphones daily with my computer

[-] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

I thought I'd use it when I got my phone but I've since found Bluetooth headphones that are actually convenient so I don't. Now this headphone form factor is dying so I might go back to wired once they stop working. I hope the jack still exists by then.

[-] SpaceMan9000@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I use both practically daily.

[-] papabobolious@feddit.nu 3 points 1 year ago

I want it mostly for aux in various cars. Also neat to plug into PC speakers and such.

I'd pass up on fingerprint scanner and nfc before the jack tbh.

[-] IcyEcho@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

I used to use mine almost every day with the same set of earbuds that I've had for probably close to a decade at this point. Since getting a phone without a jack, I listen to music significantly less now which is quite upsetting. I'm not the type to use the speaker on the phone since I've always seen that as rude, and the wireless earbuds that I have are just inconvenient to use at best and not the same quality compared to the wired ones (That's not to say that they're poor quality but I can absolutely tell the difference on my favourite songs).

I've been very tempted to just go back to my old phone once the contract on my current one has ended if modern phones are going to move away from 3.5mm jacks.

It has been an excellent universal standard for decades and the arguments about it being obsolete make no sense as it isn't being replaced by something superior, it's just being deleted entirely and a cumbersome workaround is being sold as a positive thing. The only real argument I can see for deleting the jack is that it saves the manufacturers a couple of pennies per unit.

[-] cttttt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

When the 3.5-less trend started setting in, I still had a phone with a headphone jack but started looking into wireless Bluetooth digital audio convertors just to prepare myself for the reality that it'll eventually be hard to find a phone that's both....good...and that I could plug my IEMs into.

One I settled on was the Radsone ES100. Besides allowing me to continue to use my headphones, one feature I really liked was its ability to store equalizer settings that could be used with any source, whether it be a Bluetooth device or one I plug the DAC into via USB. I found that there were equalizer apps for Android, but they kept getting killed because of memory limitations I guess. This device externalized the EQ.

Anyways some of the folks who made that branched off and made an even better version, the Qudelix 5K. It has the same features but does a better job of simultaneously connecting to multiple devices (but sadly it doesn't mix the sources...it just has a priority πŸ˜”πŸ˜”πŸ˜”πŸ˜”). So I grabbed that upgrade and now the headphone side of my audio is locked in.

I found that getting a Bluetooth DAC helped me feel better about the trend of removing a standard audio connector from devices (which I gotta say, still makes no sense). It still frustrates me that I need to walk around with another device and the limitations of Bluetooth are annoying, but the cool thing is that when my last 3.5mm jack equip device (OnePlus 5) just stopped turning on, I just grabbed a random replacement phone (Pixel 5) and kept the same audio chain.

tl;dr - Consider just accepting that this is the trend for phones these days and try a portable Bluetooth (or even USB) DAC. When you find one you like, moving to any source will be less stressful. It won't matter if it has a headphone jack: you'll be able to focus on other features or even just get a less costly device that'll sound identical to what u know.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Curious why mods don't remove posts like this? Seems like some cleanup is needed on this Com.

[-] Thassodar@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I loved the headphone jack on the S10, but other issues I had with the charging port made me switch to an S23 at the beginning of this year. I generally do not like wireless headphones due to the possibility of losing them, but using wired headphones and requiring an adapter to use them (because the S23 has no headphone jack) is a pain.

Overall, due to the specific nature of my phone, I'd use wireless headphones to regain the ability to answer and respond to phone calls while walking and listening to music. If I could get a Galaxy S class of phone with a headphone jack again, regardless of the thickness, I'd 100% be all over it.

[-] Deeleres@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Right now at work I would use one but my phone (Xperia XZ3) doesn't have a headphone jack. So I use an old Bluetooth Headset with a jack. The whole setup were presents from friends and my boss, so I wouldn't complain about any of that. πŸ“±πŸŽ§ πŸ‘

But thinking about it: It's totally stupid to build a phone without a headphone jack. My previous phone (XZ) πŸ₯² had one and it was waterproof.

[-] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I use a USB C dongle sometimes which works great, but mostly wireless these days

[-] DrPop@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Whenever I'm in the car I use it to plug my phone into the Aux port. I also like to play rhythm games on my phone and Bluetooth has too much of a delay.

[-] yessikg 3 points 1 year ago

I do, I like that I don't have to worry about charging

[-] eek2121@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have not owned a phone with a headphone jack in a long time.

[-] scottyjoe9@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

The one time I missed it was when I was trying to sell a subwoofer which only has RCA inputs and I had to use my laptop top prove it worked to potential buyers. Other than that, I use Bluetooth exclusively.

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Very very rarely. I have a cheap Bluetooth adapter in my car, and I don't regularly use headphones because everyone I care about is immediately annoyed when they see headphones over/in my ears.

[-] tjsauce@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I used to use it, before buying a USB C headphone amp cause my headphones lacked bass

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

When I had a motorcycle. This was a daily use item. Now I only use them when out on walks/hiking

[-] murmelade@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Well I tried shoving the wire up my own ass but I prefer the songs on my phone.

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I never do, because it doesn't have one

[-] spikederailed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I did everyday in my car for listening to music when I still had my Pixel4a. Sadly it started to die and I replaced it with a Pixel 8(sans headphone jack) and had to buy a Bluetooth -> aux adapter.

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I used to. Then I bought a new phone and forgot to check to see if it had one. It did not.

[-] arche7ype@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I don't have one anymore. I did not want to get rid of it. The cons of a wire did not outweigh the BT pros for me. Now I know. Things don't sound as good. Don't sound bad but wired still has that edge.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

I used to use it everyday on my old phone, new one doesn't have it and I hate using the dongle. My USB-C port is already wearing out from it

[-] Nyanix@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I used to every day when I worked at a music shop and would play audio demos from it. The loss of the port made my job VERY difficult to do. Now that I work in a new field and have had to invest in some bluetooth earbuds, I don't find that I'd need the port very often, though the audiophile in me misses it sometimes, especially since bluetooth can be so unreliable sometimes. Don't miss the dangling cable, but the thing is, I can bluetooth earbud on a phone that has a 3.5mm jack too, the fact that they removed it from phones as a standard when it's such a cheap part to implement is baffling, especially when we're paying tons for phones. I can have 16gb RAM, and 8-cores, bud God forbid I want to be able to plug in a speaker and have my phone plugged into the charger at the same time, like a repurposed old phone for a home audio system or something.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I used to, but now don't really care. Earbuds are really nice, except Bluetooth pairing is complete ass and you need to worry about it being charged.

[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Nowadays only in my car. It doesn't have a bluetooth receiver.

It's hard to find a wired earphones with ANC. About a decade earlier I used wired a Audio Technica earphones with ANC.

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