Alternatively, if your current phone doesn’t have a headphone jack, do you wish it did?

  • Michal@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    Wireless are more convenient for most use cases. I like the compactness of wireless earbuds, no tangled wires, and the charging case. I can even use just one bud at a time.

    However, wired headphones have some advantages in rare use cases that wireless can’t handle yet:

    • connecting two headsets at once so 2 people han watch a movie on a plane. Bluetooth can stream sound to only one device at a time (at least on android). With Jack you can just use a splitter
    • switching between devices easily. Just unplug and plug where you want it. With Bluetooth you have disconnect and reconnect.
    • you can easily plug it into aux without any pairing process, just plug and play. With rental cars i noticed the device memory is often full and i have to remove a device before pairing. Not as seamless as audio jack for once off uses.

    I don’t mind missing audio jack, but at least make usb c dongles interchangeable. Iirc you can’t use the same dongles on samsung and Pixel device. I ordered one that did not work.