[General question to the Android community] Have you given up on the audio jack, or do you still only buy devices that have it?

waterbogan, 7 days ago

I will still look for a jack on my next phone, current Samsung has one, will likely buy another so I will probably buy top of their entry range

HobbitFoot, 9 days ago

I gave up, so I bought a USB-C to Aux adapter.

BaardFigur, 9 days ago

Given up, kinda. I still have my old s10, which I specifically use for workouts

rasakaf679, 9 days ago

My preference while buying phone:

• “>8GB ram”
• ">250 GB storage"
• 120Hz display
• Battery capacity “>5500mah”,
• SD card option,
• Headphone jack,
• Pretty recent chip, if not the latest,
• Waterproof ip68 minimum

I don’t care wheather its Chinese or Taiwanese or American or any other.

I usually debloat the device on the first day. With ADB

kratoz29, 9 days ago

The only thing that keeps me motivated to use the audio jack is because my old car still has an old stereo and I use it daily, and I am too lazy to use dongles lol.

As a matter of fact here is a pic of a disc that my girlfriend bought recently because it was on discount, and we tried it in the car for the first time ever! (We also don’t usually buy discs, this would be the first time in more than a decade).

lightnsfw, 9 days ago

I haven’t bought a new phone since I got my LG V20. Lack of headphone jack is among many reasons. There’s nothing on the market that has all the features it does or even new features that make up for what I would be giving up if I got a new phone. I fear the day when I’m forced to get a new phone because it gets too out dated for my work apps.

Trev625, 10 days ago

I’m still using one with a jack (Asus ROG 5)

TassieTosser, 10 days ago

Still using one with a jack. Other must haves for me are sd slot and tool less sim tray.

Geth, 10 days ago

I gave up on it fairy easily, because after it was forced on us, the market also responded by flooding with cheap and decent options for headphones, which I started trying out and slowly I stopped using a wire with my phone.

I still think bluetooth is not great, with a lot of weird connection issues even on expensive devices, which was never a problem with a wire, but I do enjoy the freedom it offers.

leetnewb, 10 days ago

I switched. Not happy about it and will continue to consider it a factor in my next, but that will be years from now and I’m sure the list will be even smaller.

GissaMittJobb, 10 days ago

I honestly stopped caring a long time ago. I’ve been using bluetooth headphones exclusively since before the jacks started going away, and I’m just not bothered by it.

It would have been nice for them to stick around, but it’s not really a hill I’m willing to die on.

theonyltruemupf, 10 days ago

I have been pretty much exclusively using Bluetooth headsets for almost ten years and got my first phone without a jack this year. Sometimes you want to plug into someone’s car or home stereo and can’t, that’s annoying. But other aspects are far more important in my buying decision.

derivatives_are_hard, 10 days ago

Didn’t bother me when Samsung went to usbc only becuase now I use my DAC all the time for my wired headphones and haven’t looked back (audioquest dragonfly and shure se425). No longer as big of a deal as I originally believed it would be, in fact I use the DAC more often now than I did when it was mostly in my laptop.

zeekaran, 10 days ago

I gave up because that is not the single most important aspect of a phone.

AFC1886VCC, 10 days ago

I rarely used headphone jacks even when phones had them. I don’t miss them.