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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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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[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 4 points 11 months ago

My current phone doesn't have a headphone jack, but if it did I would every day. Still use wired every day on laptop and pc.

[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

daily when I drive to connect to AUX in car. Not connecting via bluetooth, read up on vehicle data collection.

there are usb-c to aux adaptors available for cheap

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[-] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I can just leave a spare pair of wired earphones in the car, desk, bedside, or wherever and they're ready to use without having to constantly carry an earbuds case around. Now I have to buy an adapter for each one I might use. Keeping several spare BT earbuds charged would be impractical.

And the adaptor then blocks the charging port, which has sometimes been a problem.

[-] dhorse@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I use my daily and purchased my phone primarily based on the fact it had a 3.5 jack. I am a long time DJ so my headphones are very comfortable and natural for me.

[-] CalamityBalls@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

I do, but rarely. Maybe every other month or so. The situations I do use it, I've been thankful that I avoided phones without a jack. I like having appropriate tools at my disposal, and bluetooth will never be universally applicable.

[-] kux@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

When I was looking for a new phone I gave up and bought a usb c dac/amp from Fiio. Ended up buying a phone from Sony which does have a 3.5 port (and sd card too) but continue to use the dongle anyway as it sounds better. Use it 2-3 times a week

https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/fiio-x-jade-audio-ka1-dac-amp.25817/reviews

[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I bought a $100 2023 phone and I use the headphone jack

[-] macrocephalic@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I use it a few times a year at most. I only use Bluetooth headphones, and have android auto in the car. Every now and then I need to plug my phone into a stero or something.

One of my old phones is my dedicated stereo phone at home, it's permanently plugged into the aux of my receiver.

[-] sarmale@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

Every time i use headphones

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I do. While I don't end up using headphones terribly often, I still prefer wired ones when I do. I would lose bluetooth earbuds in a heartbeat, and it wouldn't be worth the expense to replace them.

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[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 4 points 11 months ago

I use mine for listening to audiobooks on an external speaker. Bluetooth speakers often cut off the beginnings of sentences due to the brief silence between them.

[-] Grangle1@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I'm one of those who miss the headphone jack on mine. Half the time I can't get my wireless earbuds to work right (and I didn't completely cheap out on them), and I had to buy an expensive Bluetooth radio thing to connect it to my car radio because my car is too old to have that built in. An aux cord through the jack on my old phone worked just fine, even better, than that stupid thing.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I do on a regular basis using the mobile from work. I use wired headset for 90% of the cals I make on this phone.

[-] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I use it quite frequently for both making calls and listening to music or videos.

[-] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

I keep losing my usb c to headphone jack, but I usually use it a couple times a week when its not lost. I have airpods, but I'm on android so I lost the charger for it, and nearly lost the airpods many times.

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[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 points 11 months ago

I've used a headphone jack on my phone probably three times in the past two years. It is extremely uncommon for me to use it, and I would actually just prefer it not be there.

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Every Monday when I game with a buddy online.

[-] lorty@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] NOTIngo@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have to admit, I also almost never use wired headphones nowadays. When the trend of removing the jack from phones picked up pace, I absolutely hated the idea of a lack of options. But I have to admit, the convenience of no wires, outclassed the nuisance of charging my bluetooth headphones once a week, eventually. Still out of principle, I don't buy headphones from the phone brand im currently using. There are too many good third party brands out there to consider first.

[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 4 points 11 months ago

I used it in my car on the daily until it was removed from the phone. Then i went, in quite frustrating fashion, through a series of cheap aux/jack bluetooth dongles to maintain handsfree and music in the car.

Finally the radio in my truck started going out. So i replaced it with a wireless carplay/android auto model. And it IS nice.

But there are still times i would prefer a wired set of headphones. I still use them on my laptop from time to time. But will use airpods as well. One of the issues i have with my airpods is that often 1 side will be signifigantly louder than the other.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I would use it, if my phone had one.

[-] Jomn@jlai.lu 4 points 11 months ago

I don't use it much, but I do appreciate the one I have on my phone, since I don't always have my BT earbuds with me. Whereas I usually always have some cheap wired earbuds somewhere with me.

[-] time_lord@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I don't, but I've had about 5 years to replace all of my perfectly good cables with crappy bluetooth audio/dongles.

[-] spare_muppets@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

I use wired headphones daily thru a USB c adapter

[-] squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

My current phone (Pixel 8) and my previous phone (Pixel 3) don't have one. My previous phone before those had one but even then I never used it, because I've been using Bluetooth headphones for forever.

[-] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Every single day, maybe a few times a year I don't use it. Though because I have an iphone, my headphone jack is on an adapter. But still, I know for certain it's not something I can ever give up at this point, have tried the Bluetooth thing.

[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Every single day since I bought it. My last phone too.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Daily.

Driving to and from work it plugs into my car and at work it plugs into my headset.

[-] haganbmj@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Before I updated my car I used the headphone jack regularly for playing music there. Otherwise it was relegated to a couple situations a year like air travel.

Now that I've got a newer vehicle I just have all my music on USB there.

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I use mine everyday, and i was one of the first to adapt to wireless headphones when they was just Chinese exotic headphones (before apple and Samsung wireless headphones even existed) and i spotted few cons of using them before they even got popular, main problem of using them is battery and secondary is latency when you pause resume video alot, there are also alot more like signal interference in places with lot of WiFi hotspots so i returned to using wired headphones around time when first apple tws was presented, i use modular wired headphones so i can change wires if they break and always have some spare, also modular headphones can be connected to Bluetooth modules making them effectively tws and when their battery goes bad then you'll just change Bluetooth module and that's it

[-] theKalash@feddit.ch 4 points 11 months ago

Yup, I use it regularly.

[-] austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 4 points 11 months ago

I do, several hours per day. Wireless headphones might are okay in short stints, but I really like my wired ones (Sony MDRs, which will probably outlast me)

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Bluetooth earbuds are everything younger me dreamed of when dealing with when taking a tangled wire mess out of my pocket.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I love rhythm games so when I play the mobile ones, maybe 2 times a week? Bluetooth is too slow and prone to disconnection to be reliable, I missed everything when I tried, and muse dash even alerts you on boot to not use bluetooth.

[-] Muffi@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

I only bought wireless headphones because the Galaxy Note 10 didn't have an aux, and required their own overpriced adapter to connect through USB-C. I bike a lot while listening to music and hate when the headphones run out of battery halfway through my ride.

[-] Toadvark@mander.xyz 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I use mine consistently, and the presence of one will be a dealbreaker when I choose my next phone. I use it with an AUX cable in my car, wired headphones I already own, and (most importantly) with a Square point of sale thingamajig at shows. Bluetooth options exist for the last thing of course, but they have their own disadvantages- and I'd rather be able to use both options than just one!

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 4 points 11 months ago

You have a phone with a headphone jack? Who are you, 2012?

[-] DanglingFury@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you own a pre bluetooth-audio vehicle and you commute, then you need an aux port. Even early BT vehicles had iffy connection issues that are immediately solved by just plugging in.

Roadtripping and someone else wants to play a quick song? You can go into the touchscreen settings and go through linking the phone to the vehicles bluetooth and selecting that device, or you can just pass the cord.

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[-] dani@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I would if it had one.

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[-] thespezfucker@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I would but I don't really have any headphones, but I have some I definitely would, it's a cheaper version of airpods

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

One every month or two, when I play audio in the old vehicle. It's nice to be able to charge at the same time.

[-] notapantsday@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

Never ever. It wasn't the reason why I got my current phone, but I thought I would use it at least sometimes. I don't.

[-] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Occasionally. If I'm at my desk and I get a call, I'll move my wired headset over from my PC to my phone.

[-] ajrwill@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Used to back when I was in high school and it was more common, but bluetooth earbuds have gotten really good sound-wise that the hassle of wires/dac/adapter isn't worth it nowadays for me and basically everyone I know.

Wired headphones sound better usually but I think anyone claiming they're superior to bluetooth in every way is being disingenuous and hasn't tried modern buds.

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