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Headphone jack
And its buddy SD card slot.
Why phone manufacturers? Why?
You condemn us to dongle life.
It's all about selling the solution to a problem they created.
No SD card slot? You are forced to upgrade since you cannot store anything more than what they allow.
No headphone jack? Hope you like buying our inferior first party wireless earbuds or the shitty dongle thing.
Next up on the chopping block will be the charging port in favor of wireless charging, I swear.
By that point, I think I would rather just buy a phone that has all of those features and replace the components as needed instead of upgrading while also having a burner phone I can transfer whatever "e-sim card" they force upon me.
I stopped buying Samsung phones because of this bullshit
Ironically I just stopped buying Pixel and bought a Samsung just to get an sd slot.
Yeah, I sacrificed my SD slot in favor of the headphone jack when I chose my Pixel.
Remember when buying a phone meant they added new features instead of taking them away from you? Those were the days.
You don't have to buy phone brand headphones. There are other wireless ones.
Wireless ones suck. And the dongle is a shitty DAC that determines what your wired headphones' tone is like. I've got a couple dongles that really only work well in my car's tape adapter, and others that only sound okay on certain headphones. It's a crapshoot.
You can get good dongles, but you will pay for it.
I have a Bluetooth receiver that I plug my wired headphones into now.
When did you last buy them? They improved a lot
Been buying them off and on every few months. Don't.give a damn about wireless headphones though. They'll never sound as good as wired, and fuck needing to charge yet another peripheral.
If its wired then its always connected
If not then only sometimes
Dumb point
Yes but you'll always see the phone manufacturers advertising that you should get their product since it's guaranteed to work or all the other products are inferior or some other excuse, even if you decide to go with another brand.
Look, we have made a 1TB SD card!
Too bad you can't use it.
My first smart pocket device had two SD slots, a full-sized one and a mini- one, accessible at all time with no bullshit attached. I remember using it to share photos between people's cards right at the end of parties. I thought it can only get better from there.
Now I'm typing it from the phone that's twice the size and if I were to attempt ejecting my microSD card / SIM tray, it'll shutdown.
I got the Xperia 1IV specifically because it still had a headphone jack and an SD card slot :)
I wont buy a phone without one out of principle
How come? The issue is solved
Yeah, the lack of hardware features issue is solved by buying superfluous crap, and that's lame
Itβs funny really. When the iPhone 7 came out, without a headphone jack, Iβd been using Bluetooth headphones for years with iPhones 5/6 for a few years, so the lack of a jack in my next phone didnβt bother me at all.
My last couple of iPhones havenβt had a port, and instead of using a dongle, Iβve wandered back to using an iPod instead, so the lack of a port still doesnβt bother me. I have used a dongle, but only occasionally.