• Sprawlie@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      I still miss it so much. I’d take bottom or top, just to have that hole back. I have some amazing headphones, but they’re like 20+ years old and now gathering dust.

      I brought my favourite set of noise cancelling headphones with me after switching phones before I realized I had no devices to plug it into anymore.

  • brokenlcd@feddit.it
    602·
    3 months ago

    To be honest i’d prefer it to be there at all considering the current trend of removing it.

    But to answer your question, jack on top, so when the phone is plugged in the wall you can stay on the other side since the headphone cable wont be bent

    • spdrmx@beehaw.org
      5·
      3 months ago

      I don’t think we can call it a trend anymore, shit hasn’t changed for a few years, not having an headphone jack is the norm and having one can now be a selling point for a phone

    • rainynight65@feddit.de
      54·
      3 months ago

      I believe it was for waterproofing. One less port means less sealing, making it easier to improve the waterproofing of the phone.

      • toastal@lemmy.ml
        16·
        3 months ago

        Water ingress isn’t the issue & there’s been waterproofed ports for decades. They wanted to make devices thinner—but what value is it when its too thin to support a jack & made of materials that now require a case?

        • SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          11·
          3 months ago

          That’s probably just the marketing reason. The realistic reason is probably that they want to sell you their brand of wireless earbuds that need to be replaced in a few years tops

          • toastal@lemmy.ml
            51·
            3 months ago

            That conspiracy is one I believe too. Seems too odd that all OEMs dropped their jacks at the same time they started selling buds.

          • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            That’s it, right there. Artificial exclusivity, that’s what it always was anything else is an excuse to look or seem better or less scummy.

      • Kindness@lemmy.ml
        6·
        3 months ago

        Which is only likely to last one year anyways. After which, you can pay an exorbitant amount to replace the degrading glue. I’d just like my wired headphones back, the jack will last longer than a year at the very least.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      People are going to try to make up reasons, all of them are an excuse to cover up the real reason which is copying apple and forcing people into Bluetooth to sell more expensive tech junk to people. The original and really only reason.

    • MrVilliam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      I’m using the Pixel 5a. Solid phone, low price, unlocked so it can move networks, virtual SIM ready, 5G capable, and it has a headphone jack. Mine is a few years old and still cruising along just fine. I think they were under $500 at launch, so don’t believe anybody’s bullshit about headphone jacks drastically raising costs.

      • Dempf@lemmy.zip
        5·
        3 months ago

        Pixel 5a was great, but the units that are a couple years old are having major issues with the charging circuitry / motherboard. My phone bricked overnight while charging. It seems widespread enough right now that they’ve completely run out of refurbished stock of 5as and 6as to send out for replacements. I waited 6 weeks for an RMA with absolutely no updates – was about to just give up, buy a new phone, and take Google to small claims court. Finally got a replacement unit because the “social media team made an exception for me” after I tweeted them.

      • frank@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        3 months ago

        Same, and no clue what I’m doing after it. I love my headphone jack … Maybe an ASUS ROG?

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 months ago

      Reporting from Sony Xperia III 5 with a jack. My last 5 phones had a jack & OLED too.

  • Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    241·
    3 months ago

    I prefer the headphone jack is on the bottom, next to the charging port. That way, I can put the ports down while my phone is in my pocket if i’m working, so nothing gets into the ports. Then, if I’m just keeping my phone in my pocket normally, with the ports up, my headphones can plug in without problems.

  • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org
    19·
    3 months ago

    At the bottom. This way when you will it out of your pocket, you don’t have to turn it around for the screen to be the right way up.

        • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
          27·
          3 months ago

          I thought everybody’s using AirPods these days? or at least Bluetooth, everybody has transitioned to Bluetooth, right?

          • ripcord@lemmy.world
            71·
            3 months ago

            I try Bluetooth every couple of years but it still sucks so much.

            It amazes me how after 30 years and a million spec improvements, it still fails so often for me at basic things. Connecting consistently (and quickly), pairing consistently (and quickly), etc.

            I know it’s partly just some terrible, cheap implementations of Bluetooth that are to blame, but I don’t care. I plug in headphones, they work. That’s what I want headphones to do. Not have to worry about charging, and being dirt simple are an added bonus.

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
    151·
    3 months ago

    Not picky—it just needs to be there else I would be forced to buy Bluetooth e-waste.

    • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.info
      7·
      3 months ago

      I don’t know what kind of shit you guys buy, but I have used one single pair of Bluetooth tws earbuds since pre-covid and never looked back to wired which, at least in my experience, are the ones more prone to breaking

      Edit: and it’s not like I got Apple airpods or anything, they are haylou gt1 that I paid like 25$ for in 2019 or 18

      Edit2: and yes I do have a micro jack in my phone which I have not used once for the three years I have had this phone

    • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      It’s kind of comical how many Bluetooth earbuds I’ve been through because they break and die so often. I was a very early adopter around 2017 or so and my first pair sucked (and broke). Next I got air pods which were great for sometime but broke too (case stopped charging). Got Samsung level U, they sounded decent but they had the lousiest, wet newspaper, build quality I’ve ever seen. Constantly cracking and separating at the seams. By the time I was done with them, there was probably more superglue than plastic.

      I had some sound peats QY8 earbuds. They were uncomfortable and had poor design. The earbud protruded far from the body and was also very flimsy. Accidentally pressed them against a flat surface and the body basically disintegrated.

      I also had a pair of Logitech artemis headphones, but those failed to connect after a year or so.

      Oh, and ALL of them had poor battery life, later in their use. Within a year or 2 the battery life seems to be cut in half if not more.

      Since then I have switched to Sennheiser hd600, DUNU TITAN S and Koss ksc75. Both of the former have replaceable cables and latter can easily be repaired if you can solder. Even then you can probably bring it to a shop and they can repair it quickly and cheaply.

      • toastal@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 months ago

        I switched to wired IEMs exclusively & won’t be going back. The price-performance is totally there & they never need a damn data-collecting, third-party app for firmare updates or some garbage.

      • toastal@lemmy.ml
        3·
        3 months ago

        Unless you are buying a DSP cable, there aren’t microchips or batteries or firmware updates for analog earphones. Kinds with even slight quality to them have detachable, replaceable cables (current IEMs are fine on their second cable) & headsets usually have simple parts a basic soldering iron or similar can fix (my old ones I got repaired in 3 countries in tiny shops by folks that’d never seen them). You gonna repair your earbuds when they break? Last shop I went to, the first question asked if they were wireless & only after confirming they aren’t do they even bother trying to help. You think analog needs worry about a new version of Bluetooth or some security vulnerability in the firmwares communicating to your smarter phone (& also used to fingerprint your physical presence)? I can plug mine in to a port built in ’70s & get a analog signal out.

    • rainynight65@feddit.de
      33·
      3 months ago

      I couldn’t possibly tell you how many sets of wired headphones I’ve had to throw out in my life because of frayed/broken cables. Those things are e-waste too.

      • toastal@lemmy.ml
        7·
        3 months ago

        You are buying shitty headphones if you cant detach or otherwise repair the cables. The cables are just copper & some casing which is hardly e-waste & the rest is a magnet housed in plastic/resin. There isn’t lithium production for a battery or other rare minerals for a microchip.