You can use any wired headphones you like with any phone you like. Just get an adapter. I don’t see the big problem.
With my daughters (16 y.o. twins) I’ve so far been successful at drawing the line at AirPods simply because they’re so expensive and stuff still gets lost. Currently one has $13 Bluetooth earbuds and the other uses my earpods (at which point I go get another pair which will inevitably be appropriated by one or the other).
I assumed it was just to save space. Make the phone a hair slimmer, add a touch more battery, eliminate a step in manufacturing.
Carrying around tiny dongles that get lost is not a terrific solution. It effectively makes you phone a lot bigger if it always lives in the phone. Otherwise, you risk losing it. I bought some micro-usb to usb-C adapters, and they work fine, except that I keep losing them.
Also, maybe there are (even larger) dual adapters, that let you charge these days. But I often leave the phone plugged in while listening to music.
My next phone is likely not to have a head phone jack. But I’m unhappy about that.
I keep my USB to audio dongle permanently attached to the headphone cord. I’m not going to lose it unless I lose the whole headphones.
Same here. My new iPhone came with this adaptor. I’m not seeing the problem.
I use mine mostly at the gym. They play music I don’t like so I wear noise-canceling headphones. But occasionally I use my old standard pair. I just bought a pair of Bluetooth headphones (yesterday, so I haven’t had a chance to try them yet).
No headphone jack doesn’t equal ‘must use earbuds’.
Yep. Honestly it seems like some posters in this thread are searching for a problem that doesn’t exist.
My USB adapters live on the relevant cables, but I’ve already lost two of them.
My phone has a jack and is waterproof to 2m for up to 30 minutes.
I believe the iPhone 6s is the last Apple phone with a headphone jack. You can still buy one, but probably not for long.
It’s my understanding that every iPhone is still being sold with a set of wired headphones in the box. What choice is being removed here? Airpods aren’t the only option - I have a draw full of headphones from the last 4 iPhones my wife and I have had that all plug directly into the lightning port of the iPhone, no dongle necessary.
The choice of using non-apple headphones with a 3.5mm plug is being, well, not removed but thwarted unless you buy a dongle.
With Tidal, Amazon, Deezer, and other music services now providing lossless music streaming, no one should be happy playing that through a lossy Bluetooth connection. Most people won’t care, but at least some of the people who dropped a few hundred on good headphones will.
I would think that the people who have spent a few hundred on headphones would not be too upset with having to spend another $5 on a dongle.
The Samsung Galaxy phones do. I’m looking to upgrade to the 10, myself. I won’t get a phone without a jack - that’s how I listen to music in my car. I don’t have Bluetooth.
What is wrong with keeping a dongle in your car?
I use the Samsung Galaxy Note 8. Bought it used on Craigslist, as I do with all of my cell phones. The ESN was clean, I tested it. Works great. Had it since last winter.
I cannot change the battery, which just kills me. But I can open up a tray to get to the MicroSD card.
Anyway, it as a working jack hole for earphones.
You can get recent-model used cell phones for a fraction of what a new one costs.
I’m curious as well, why not get a new phone you want and use a dongle? It’s a little piece of wire about 2” long that fits in line with the headphone cord. I never even notice mine.
This thread got me to notice the dongle on the end of my headphone cable for the first time in 18 months. I certainly have never detached them since I plugged them into my replacement headphones.
I have a separate set of headphones that I keep in my laptop bag. I use those with my laptop. I don’t use headphones with any other devices.
Not seeing the problem.
Well, one reason is that I occasionally plug my phone into an amplifier that I don’t own. And it’s not always the same amplifier. But because lots of other people plug in stuff that uses a standard “headphone jack” the cable that connects the amp to a headphone jack is always around.
I suppose eventually there will be enough USB-C devices that the people who own the amps will keep amp to USB-C cables around, too. But that’s not currently true. So, I’d have to actually carry around a dongle all the time. Or remember it when it might be relevant. Yeah, I could do that, but it’s a nuisance with a moderately high failure rate (because I’ll forget, or lose the dongle in the bottom of my bag.) So I’m trying to keep a phone with the headphone jack hole for a while, yet.
Granted, USB-C supports “Audio Accessory Mode”, but is there any testing comparing the sound quality to that of a regular 6.35 mm or 3.5 mm audio jack? Should it be indistinguishable, or irrelevant because anyone who cares about such things should be using a separate expensive headphone amp or DAC anyway?
I’m not thrilled with being unable to listen to music while charging my iPhone. Yes, I can buy an adapter for $35, and carry it with me wherever I go, but on my son’s 6s, he can simply plug in the headphones and charger at the same time.