Still my criterion when looking to buy a phone.
Any luck? Or have you been using a 10year old phone because the stupid phone manufacturers think following Apple is a good idea
Sony Xperia is still going and has headphones jacks.
And an SD card slot, I absolutely love mine!
I genuinely can’t believe they took away the microsd slot from modern phones
I even pre bought a card before getting my new phone because I just assumed it’d have the slot. Should’ve done more research i guess
Gonna have to double check the next phone I buy has a screen first
The Samsung Galaxy A15 5G has an audio jack and is somewhat recent. It’s a budget phone, though. The spec’s aren’t the best, but the price point is nice. If you wanted to listen to flac over wired headphones, that would work well.
I accidentally got one. Woo!
Here’s your phone, sir.
“I ordered spaghetti”
Its on the house sir, my apologies
I think the last S series that had the jack was the s10 from 2020
I got an Asus zenfone 10 and it has one (and is also a small phone which is also hard to find now)
Sony if that’s in your budget.
edit: or Motorola if it isn’t (check specific models, ymmv)
Samsung Galaxy Xcover 6pro has been pretty good for me. It has a headphone jack, SD card slot, and a removable battery. The specs aren’t the top of the line, but as long as I’m not playing games on my phone it gets the job done.
Redmagic phones have very high specs and a jack
My phone still has an aux jack : humble brag:
It’s a pixel 3a from at least 6 years ago :opposite of a humble brag:
…I actually love the shape and function of this phone. I only wish it had security updates, and didn’t have Google.
isn’t that pixel really well supported by postmarketos?
What is a postmarketeo??
it’s a linux distribution for mobile devices, it’s not really production ready but still really fun to play around with
Pixel 4a here. Great phone, just in desperate need of a battery replacement. Checking ifixit the risk of breaking the display while opening the phone seems quite high :/
Yes, I spent years breaking the screen of this phone and eventually replacing it. I’ve finally got a screen protector and it’s been great… But the screen will almost certainly crack when you remove it. Bummer about the extra cost.
I refuse to get a phone without a headphone jack. Mostly because I know I’m inevitably going to lose my headphones, forget to charge them, forget them in my trouser pockets that will go in the wash. The latter has happened at least a couple of times with my current headphones and they still work just fine. Try that with your Bluetooth pair and let me know how it goes.
My Bluetooth bone induction headphones survived a month in the bottom of a dishwasher.
As soon as you stop having a cord get caught on everything in your life and get used to pausing/playing with a tap to the ear it all clicks.
But yea the raycon/airpod models don’t appeal to me.
That’s impressive, do you remember which headphones those were?
Aftershocks treks titanium. Eventually the inductor on one side got stepped on. It still worked but didn’t fit around my ear well. I’ve had their open run for like? 5 years now? still works great. I charge it maybe once a week and listen to it for around 20 hours a charge. Usually don’t even turn it off when I’m not using it. Just hit the phones Bluetooth cuz that’s still in my hand.
Oh they rebranded to shokz
Just run the wire through your shirt and they never catch and you have the added bonus of your shirt catching earbuds that fall out. Not only that, but your phone doesn’t need to be charged halfway through the day.
When I used wireless headphones, either my phone or headphones would die in the middle of a shift, even with my phone at 100% at shift start. With wired headphones, I’d still have 30-40% battery left even after long 10-12 hour shifts. Wireless just aren’t worth the hassle between battery draining and running around looking where they roll after falling out of your ear.
Yeah, I’ve gotten hooked on using either my hearing aids or my pauseable and microphone containing ear buds. Getting my phone out of my pocket to pause has become an annoyance
I just got a USB DAC for $12. If also has a type C pass through. It’s so small it stays permanently attached to my wired headphones.
It’s a fairly complete solution tbh.
I’m still rocking a 7-year-old Galaxy S9+. A few years ago my headphone jack wore out and the gapped hole no longer retains my earbud cable. Since then, I’ve been using a USB-C adapter, but the combined earbud and charging use is starting to take it’s toll and the port is beginning to feel loose. I’m convinced that if I was limited to USB only over the full life of this phone, I would have lost wired headphone and wired charging capability a long time ago. I wish you well with your singular bottleneck port.
My main issue with external DACs is how fast they drain my battery…
I still have one in my phone, and external SD card storage too. Another thing that they want gone (cloud storage agenda).
I miss having an SD card slot…
Me too, my guilty pleasure gacha game are only getting bigger. 64 gigs doesn’t cut it anymore.
Back in my day phones actually had the ports people wanted.
But but my new phone is 3 microns thinner!
Sure we lost all the ports people actually needed, but 3 microns man!
3 microns thinner and 5 cm longer! oh you want to fit your phone in your pocket comfortably? how about you go fuck yourself
I’m in! Here’s my wheelbarrow of cash!
But but my new phone is 3 microns thinner!
If only. My Galaxy S8 from 2018 had a 3.5mm socket and it was thinner than my current iPhone 16e.
Yes but now you can also have 17 camera lenses bulging out the back!
I still have one, really don’t want to get a new phone that doesn’t. I still use my earbuds all the time
A simple couple wires that work without pairing, without drivers, without 3 separate volume controls, and worked on the terribly complicated premise of inserting a plug into a hole. Next thing they’ll try and say speakers need a dozen micro wires on a special propriety cable to do what they do better.
without drivers
All headphones have drivers :^)
Man, what are you driving that you need headphones, all my cars have built in stereos…
I think it may have been a joke ;)
The “driver” is a part of a speaker that actually makes the physical motion that makes the sound. So all speakers do have drivers haha
They were joking too ig, it’s all good lol
that’s so cool! thanks for sharing
Sony Xperias have 3.5mm jacks again. A few of them are also supported by LineageOS and Sailfish OS, so you’re not necessarily stuck in the Google ecosystem.
They also have an SD card slot for those who feel the onboard storage isn’t quite enough for their tastes.
Using mine right this very moment.
I got a pair of wired earbuds for $20 at my drug store and the audio quality and build quality is really serviceable. I would probably have to pay at least $60 or $70 for a similar build and audio quality with Bluetooth earbuds.
And this is the reason why apple and other companies jump on the trend. Many of these manufacturers also sell Bluetooth headphones and they want people to buy them instead of cheaper wired ones.
Some of them make excuses but this is one of the primary reasons, and some of the excuses are so transparently stupid it isn’t even funny. Like saying they removed it so people can use Bluetooth headphones (as if presence of the headphone jack prevents use of Bluetooth headphones 🙄).
I regret buying one without it.
I bought pixel 6a, mainly for graphene os but didn’t install it because I wouldn’t be able to use Google pay. My main things why I regret getting it is that there’s no headphone jack and no SD card slot. Thought it wouldn’t be that bad but… It is that bad. Next time I’m getting a phone once this goes bad I’m definitely getting headphone jack and SD card slot.
Genuine question. What do you use the SD card slot for? I havent needed one in like 15+ years at least. But I don’t do a lot on my phone.
I imagine it makes keeping things like photos super easy, even if a phone stops working entirely.
I guess, but who actually stores photos on their phone anymore? Everyone I know/talk to just back it up to some cloud provider.
I don’t actually use a cloud backup. It’s me. And maybe the op of this thread, I guess.
Aren’t you worried about losing them? I keep my photos backed up to a local storage server and Google drive because I’m terrified about that. I lost my iPhone 5 back when it was new and that maybe is why I’m so nervous about it.
Yes. And I have lost them before, which is why an SD card is a pretty good idea.
But I also do things like take pictures of my tax forms to convert to PDF, as one example. I don’t need that uploading to Uncle Goog’s Spy Cloud.
Me? I also use Syncthing and my phone is part of a personal cloud.
Have you thought about the fact that maybe you can’t think of a usecase because you have already gotten used to not having the luxury of an SD card and owning the things you enjoy?
Nobody owns their smartphone. Just like nobody owns anything else anymore. But personally, my “cloud provider” is a server box in my basement which I do own.
I just don’t see the benefit of using an SD card. But I’ve seen too many of them fail while I was a photographer so maybe I’m just burnt out.
I don’t rely on the SD card on my phone to be the sole source of my data, it is a common pool so that I don’t have to walk around firehosing cellular data back and forth for no reason.
Syncthing works best when one device is always on or nearly always on the internet, so my phone is the perfect bounce port to keep a bigger network of syncthing devices working together on (note Syncthing will sync over a local network if possible, which is most of the time with my devices).
If the SD card fails shrugs I get another one?
I mean… that is the route that cameras take right? You just use two SD cards. I do the same thing but with a paired raspberrry pi and another SD card that is connected with Syncthing.
I use it for:
- Music, mp3 and flac files
- Wallpapers
- Collection of images important to me
- Synced all using Syncthing with my laptop and a raspberry pi.
Like /u/Monstrosity already said, photos is great use. Dealing with it rn, want to transfer bunch of my pics to my pc and it takes forever and fails a lot trying to do it over cable so just putting it on SD card and then just plug the SD card into the PC is way easier. Solved it by installing sync thing so that works for now. I also like to store all my music locally so I don’t have to worry about bad signal or anything like that, also some movie and books for when bored waiting or something. I definitely love having stuff locally plus it’s just much cheaper large storage than getting a phone with bigger internal memory. So yeah there’s tons of uses why you would want an SD card. Makes lots of things easier and easily transferable. Same with headphone jack, don’t have to deal with connecting stuff guessing the pairing code if it’s one or the other default one. Just plug it in and done. Also don’t know how it is with modern phones but you can listen to radio using the headphones as anténa so definitely another use for someone that would want that.
Huh I guess that makes sense. Idk I guess I solved it other ways.
I back up all of my photos to a server I have at home so I don’t think I’ve moved a file off my phone in like a decade. And the closest I get is sending a single photo but I’ll just email/text it to myself in that case.
I also store all my music locally, but Im not even close to using all of my storage? I just checked, i have 6340 songs, and ~1000 photos/videos. And that takes up a total of like 26gb. So I’m not ever really limited by storage.
Same, sold it after a couple years and got one with a jack
ITT: Apple customers think everyone is as bad at purchasing decisions as they are.
“Bro, look at this concept art of a cyborg girl listening to music with wireless earbuds! Wouldn’t it be cool if you could have the same technology real life? Bro, just stop being a Luddite for two seconds, having to charge a second device is not a big inconvenience for looking like the future!”
This exists, for anyone who would benefit
There is a lot to be said about having less shit to keep track off
Of course. But we do what we can with what we’ve got.
Like not get what you’ve got?
But it’s difficult to get a decent phone with a jack these days, that’s true…
Adaptors & usb-c style headphones SUCK FUCKING ASS.
The usb-c port is unreliable & gets dirty too easily & also they fall out a lot b/c it’s so fucking shallow.
Take your adaptor propaganda elsewhere, sir or ma’am!
The thing I posted is lightning, not usb-c
That’s even less useful
Useful for someone with an iphone
Recent iphones also use USB C
That is a distinction without a difference.
They are quite different. They are not compatible. My phone uses one and my wife’s phone uses the other. If they were compatible, we’d have fewer cords in this house.
I understand, I just meant they both have similar disadvantages in comparison to 9mm jack, imo.
If only there was a way to build that function directly into the phone.
Bro we’re consumers, not billionaires
i miss my phone that also had FM radio built in.
Tell me about it! I still buy IEM’s because of their incredible sound, yet I have to use dongle for my main phone. IEM brands have been also producing USB-C outputs, but yet not good IMO.
Lucky that I have an LG-vq40, which has audio jack, so I use it as a audio device. Thicker phone than my main, yet has audio jack.Yeah it’s sad that LG didn’t maintain that niche of high quality DAC jack phones. Also still stuck with my V30…
