I don’t like smartphones. I use a dumbphone.

But this is a wonderful initiative.

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      10 hours ago

      How else would they push their mediocre reviewed Bluetooth headsets and ear buds?

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      my phone has a headphone jack, my phone before that had a headphone jack. Wanna guess how often I used it? Zero because I have decent bluetooth headphones

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        my phone has a headphone jack, my phone before that had a headphone jack. Wanna guess how often I used it? Zero because I have decent bluetooth headphones

        That’s just like your opinion man

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        My last phone had a headphone jack. Wanna guess how often I used it? All the time! And that was despite having decent Bluetooth headphones.

        I loved wearing my cans when mowing the lawn because it cut down on the noise, and I also used them when laying in bed since they had much better audio. I would use my Bluetooth headphones the rest of the time because they were more convenient.

        My new phone doesn’t have headphone jack, and I’m super bummed.

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            USB-C to headphone jack dongles suck. You lose them easily, you can’t charge your phone if they’re connected and if you disconnect your headphones the device still behaves as if they’re plugged in. It’s so much less convenient and on the other hand there’s just no downside to having a dedicated headphone jack, so I still don’t get why they’re no longer including them.

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            Yup. If anything, they should add a second USB-C connector. Much more versatile and you can still charge your phone if one of them dies.

            These flaky, but simultaneously bulky headphone connectors need to die. They’re inferior in pretty much every way imaginable.

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        I use mine. Bluetooth is great and all, but it’s still not the same quality as a hard-line. And they also run out of batteries.

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        I used mine all the time because I hate using bluetooth even though I have expensive bluetooth headphones, I have now cancelled you out

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        My decent Bluetooth headphones have the option to plug in a headphone cable to use them wired. I use it occasionally so I can reduce audio latency, which can be useful with gaming…and essential with rhythm games.