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No, the need is still present. Headphone jacks are pretty essential still, wireless tech is not a replacement.
I'm not doubting you, just curious on the main use case
Holy shit someone thought of me lmao. Thank you 🙏
Also. Good post.
Wired headphones? What else?
I haven't seen many people use wired headphones in a very long time, which was the impetus for my question
Because it's so rarely an option.
Really? They're much better audio quality than bluetooth.
I guess I worded it wrong. The time to protest was ages ago and it's too late now to convince any of the tech corps to change so good luck finding a phone in 2023 with a headphone jack. We lost.
Essential for what? Bluetooth used to be shit, but I've had very few issues with recent devices.
Bluetooth means a wireless bud/headphone, which means batteries and extra hardware to support Bluetooth and DAC, and an extra cable and charging adapter, and maybe an extra case. When it could all be driven by a simple headphone jack instead.
Bluetooth still lags. To this day. Don't ask me why or how, given it's the year of our lord 2023, but I can tell there is lag in most bluetooth headsets even in video content, let alone games.
So yeah, I have a Sony Xperia 1 IV, which not only has the headphone jack but forward facing stereo speakers and no notch or camera punch-hole. To my knowledge it's the very last flagship phone with that specific feature set.
I may be wrong but if I remember correctly the reason it lags is that until the recent forced earbuds explosion the bluetooth protocol was focused on low energy efficient transmission for personal smart devices, and audio transmission was just an "extra" feature
Yeah, but "recent" here is a bit of a stretch. Apple removed the headphone jack from their phones seven years ago. Lagless bluetooth audio is only just now tehcnically possible and still widely unsupported. it's absurd, and I honestly think it justifies not just seeking a phone with an audio jack but also moving on from the bluetooth standard altogether.
It still degrades audio quality and that's an area I refuse to compromise on.
The smartphone is not the expensive part of my mobile audio playback setup, I expect it to be compatible with the standard playback interface of wires.
No, they are not essential.. And this isn't a discussion about wireless vs wired earbuds.. USB headphones/earphones are a thing, the fact that you don't like wireless is not an excuse to demand that an ancient and obsolete standard should be reinstated when you have plenty of options to use wired devices without a 3.5 mm headphone jack..
They're actually fairly rare and not particularly compatible. My 3.5mm earbuds plug in natively to my Switch, my phone, my PS5 controller, my laptop and my desktop PC.
I recentlly upgraded my PC headset and moved the old one to use in my bedroom only to discover that because it's USB I can only use it with my laptop.
So yeah, no, not obsolete and not the same.
My only pair of earbuds have a wire. The connector is usb-c and my phone has a jack. So I don't even use the jack now
3.5 headphones that have volume controls and a pause/hang up button can't seem to last a year. I tried 2 and they both lasted 3 months