Apple will make sure that isn’t a long wait.
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Lack of a headphone jack is a deal breaker for me in the new phone market. I simply refuse.
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Another advantage of the headphone jack, way out of the purview of the walled garden, is that some phones have a built in FM radio tuner that only works with wired headphones (the wire is the antenna). There is no mobile data consumption. Plus it could be handy in emergencies if you don’t have/can’t reach a hand-cranked radio.
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Please, as if a mobile device would give such a useful error code.
I’m waiting for a frowny face and a fart sound, which if we’re lucky will be explained 600 pages deep in a forum somewhere.
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Yeah, if you see someone defending dongles, you can safely ignore anything else they say. The RDF is way too strong with those people.
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I have devices which use the 3.5mm socket, which are not headphones.
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And in some work environments - no Bluetooth, no integrated mics into earbuds, sometimes (the best times) no outside electronics. Anyway, Bluetooth phones are a solution to no problem for many of us…
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That’s it, exactly! I’ve been hanging in with various Moto 'phones for those very reasons, the jack n free FM.
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Sure, but getting to use standard headphones is my goal.
My iPhone 6 has a headphone jack has a headphone jack and is a pretty reasonable phone. Don’t know what I’ll do when it’s upgrade time, but probably not Apple
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I’ve never used the headphone jack in any of my phones, and I would rather a slightly larger battery or slightly better IPX rating than a headphone jack. Not to deny your experience, or claim headphone jacks aren’t useful for many people, but the experience isn’t universal.
But if you want to find someone to blame, call out all the stupid phone reviewers who have to try to review an incredibly complex piece of software and hardware that looks like just a black rounded rectangle. Every time you see someone saying “the huge bezels make my eyes bleed” because there is 3 mm of black at the bottom of the phone, or complaining that XYZ phone is 0.2 mm thicker than ABC phone. It is much easier to meet the stupid pointless “appearance” constraints of incompetent cellphone reviewers (essentially all of them) if you ditch the headphone jack. Those reviews matter a lot in a market where manufacturers struggle for distinction, so manufacturers do the rational thing and drop it.
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I understand, but I love my BEATSx BT headphones. I hated getting the cord caught on EVERYTHING before I got it two years ago. I understand I don’t hve the same limitations you do, but for me, the ubiquity of BT devices is a benefit, not a bug.
A lot of people here are arguing over whether Bluetooth or cabled headphones are better.
But isn’t the point that the damn phone should have both, so we can use what works best for ourselves?
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still with 6S here, with fresh $29 battery from apple, my own headphone jack Alamo.
I don’t want bluetooth earbuds - don’t want to manage another rechargeable.
I don’t want USB C headphones that I can’t plug into my computer.
I don’t want a dongle, that I have to dig out or retrieve from another headset just anytime I want to plug in any audio out put into my phone.
Smart phone design refinement is done, and we are now well into the useless feature churn cycle to get us to keep upgrading. I can’t remember the last time Apple added a useful feature. The improvement of the cameras is useful, but its already gone well beyond my needs. No headphone jack is just a PIA.
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Someone please get Cory a pair of WH1000XM3’s. They go well with his glasses, too.
Delivery to Leipzig, I presume.
I know BT is shit, but honestly, if you are my age you don’t hear the difference anyways, and I bet a 90% confidence interval around that estimate.
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About those battteries: I’ve got an off-path Samsung phone, i.e. not a Galaxy, and once every 6 months on average something in the OS hangs up. Not only can’t I quit apps or use the soft restart, even all the mechanical key-restart/shutdown combos don’t work. I pull the battery as the only way I know to shut it down. If I couldn’t get to the battery, I’d have to wait over a day for the battery to run out of power. So, if nothing else, an accessible battery takes care of some unknown software faults.
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Bluetooth headphones are great, I’ve mangled countless cables and plugs before decent wireless options were available.
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Uh… how do you know?
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I was sad that my Moto X was simply not holding a charge more than about 10 minutes, and decided to try a battery replacement from a local firm (you can buy the replacement batteries yourself, but it sounds like you need about $50 in tools to install them). The back will never fit quite the way it used to, but it’s otherwise as good as new, now, and for less than $100.
I’ve dragged most of my near flagship phones out to three years of service, but usually with one year with bad battery life, no space, and painful speed. With the battery fixed I’m still in great shape on the other two.
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I used to have to do that a lot when I had a replaceable battery phone, but oddly I’ve always been able to hard-reboot any fixed-battery phone I’ve had.
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