Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/27/3-5mm-or-bust.html
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Phones without headphone jacks suck
Same goes for phones without SD card slots or removable batteries. When I’ve needed a new phone I’d buy an older model (2-3 years behind the current one) to keep these features. I’m resigned to the fact that the next phone I buy in this way will likely be the last that has them.
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Phones without headphone jacks suck
As a recent “convert” I can attest to this, and second it, and cry it out loud to the world! I made the further mistake of buying a cheap pair of bluetooth ear buds and only made my situation worse. Now I’m wallowing in my own misery, refusing to upgrade the ear buds so I can get to know hell on an intimate level. Happy holidays everyone!
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Why buy the Pixel then? Could’ve bought a current phone with the jack. I have the S8+ and it’s great
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THIS.
It makes zero sense to have removed the headphone jack in the first place…but not having a replaceable battery and a slot for a microSD card for expansion is just plain assholish in nature.
Honestly though, as bad as Apple and others are with forcing cell phones to be essentially disposable devices; everything is getting that way…all sorts of appliances are being manufactured in a way that if it breaks the solution is “Throw it out and buy a new one”. Its freaking disgusting.
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I am a big fan of my LG v20. Removable battery, SD card, and an IR blaster (which comes in super handy when remotes go missing or turning off obnoxious TVs in public).
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Maybe the onus should be on headphone manufacturers to include cables with USB-C now…
That. Would be even worse.
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At least Android users have some choice in this matter. Problem is that the headphone jack is treated as a poverty option now so you have to buy a phone that is compromised in other ways (no storage, slow CPU, too little memory, manufacturer abandons the phone after 6 months and stops releasing security updates) to avoid the dongle headaches.
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You don’t need dongles, or annoying cables, if you use bluetooth headsets…
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Bluetooth saps my battery and does not function well in the vicinity of law enforcement stinger towers (ask me how I know!). I require a hard-cable option.
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This kind of bullshit is exactly why I’m eyeballing the Librem 5 phone, due out in a few months. I hope it pans out.
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These are the reasons i’m still rocking a galaxy S5. I have a new battery on order for it as the original is starting to show it’s age now. I have recently started using a pair of Marly bluetooth headphones though but they do come with an audio cable for when the headphones battery runs low which is handy.
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BT also will never sound as good as a wired jack and prevents you from easily playing your music in say an Uber with an aux wire or other non-pairing situations.
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Iphone 6s FTW. I just backrevisioned after a 7 died and I’ll keep buying refurbs as long as possible. There is no feature on a newer iphone that makes up for the lack of headphone jack. To be honest, I’m really surprised someone as open sourcy/technowise as Cory would have ever bought a BT only device.
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Phones without headphone jacks suck
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I would love to get a phone like that, but there are apps that I absolutely need for work that would probably never be available on there 
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I am a big fan of my LG v20.
It’s the last of its kind though - the last flagship with a removable battery, and one of the last with a headphone jack. I’ve had one for a couple years now and love it, but it will break eventually. I’m thinking of hoarding some of the NOS units that are available on ebay before they’re all gone.
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And now I’m just just waiting for “this phone has detected a bluetooth headset that is not licensed to work with this device”
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