we've got you surrounded! buy this new shitty phone without headphone jack so that we can force you to buy shitty wireless earbuds
i hate wireless earbuds! i hate wireless earbuds!
Q / Trump branded earbuds sold at a 5,000% markup is honestly floating around in my brain now, I even have a few aliexpress options open in tabs
It's so fucking hard to find a phone with a headphone jack and impossible to find one with a jack and a replaceable battery. I think the fair phone is one of the last. The Zenfone 6 had a jack, but no replaceable battery and the V20 had both, but is super outdated now.
Seriously. The prices of phones have skyrocketed while their features have plummeted.
Similarly, as technology gets better and better and phones can use less power, they make batteries smaller to compensate and keep battery life the same. The last time buying a new phone meant better battery life for most people was like 8 years ago.
Yeah, but it doesn't let you charge your phone and I don't want to buy an adapter that I'm gonna lose.
There are indeed adapters that will allow you to do both, but yeah, it is dumb and shouldn't be needed.
Buy refurbished iphones/ other phones if you can. Saves you heaps of coin and you can say fuck you to Apple's planned obsolescene.
I have a samsung galaxy S7 because it still has a headphone jack
Almost coming up to its five year anniversary and still kicking
I had my s3 mini for 8 years. By the end battery was shit and it would just turn off randomly, even if it had battery left
The audio to USB Type-C setup is a passive connection. It’s electrically the same as a 3.5mm jack.
This is not true for a lot of phones. They don't have a DAC for the USB C port, so you need to get a USB C to 3.5mm adaptor with a DAC inside. The latest Samsung phones are like this. I think the Apple USB C to 3.5mm adaptor is the cheapest one with a DAC inside it.
Super lame. That means you have to rely on whatever (possibly low bit) DAC IC they use in the active cable. Granted, you can get by on 8 or 10 bits and audio is pretty slow relatively.
It worked on my old Pixel so I guess I thought the passive way was more widespread.The audio jack adaptor that google sold with the google pixels also had an internal DAC
But all the reputable ones are really good as far as technical specifications are concerned. The Apple DAC supports 16/24 bit audio, at either 44.1/48kHz. The google DAC does 16 bits at 44.1kHz, and 24 bits at 44.1/48/96kHz. They actually sound better than the headphone jacks integrated into most phones or laptops.
Still wish phones kept the headphone jack though
Yeah, but you can use LDAC or aptX-HD with a lot of android phones.
I will go to great lengths to never need wireless headphones. I misplace shit all the time, so I don't need 10x the price on a smaller item
too many places where bluetooth just straight up doesn’t work
Can you explain this to me?
Bluetooth does better in more enclosed places iirc. Wide open areas bluetooth will have trouble. not OP but i've gone for walks with bt headphones and I walk from a more enclosed area into a wide open one and the audio starts cutting for no reason.
bluetooth is weird. It can barely pass through a person too so it can be shit in a pocket.
To avoid paying the huge fees it would take to reserve a decent radio channel for Bluetooth, they got it approved by the FCC by making it insanely weak, in a band that doesn't penetrate things very well. To make it usable despite the tiny power limits and awful frequency band, they added a fuckton of error correction and set their standards for quality extremely low.
Bluetooth was never meant for anything better than phone call level audio quality, the fact you can get any audio that doesn't sound like an AM radio station through it is amazing. Any tiny amount of interference in that band makes Bluetooth useless. Literally, just being in a room with a bunch of milkcrate Bitcoin miners will probably jam it.
I'm not into the BT buds, but bone-conduction BT headset is really nice for many things, especially bike commuting
you can hear the birds and the wind and other important sounds all while jamming out, and they stay on quite well and are one item as opposed to two tiny things that get lost super easy
idk my Samsung ones are pretty dope :squirtle-jam:
Cord go away freedom go up
I could never stand the little delay that wireless has for watching video or gaming. I guess wireless buds are nice for when I'm working outside or cooking, but I'm also a little stubborn and proud, so I just maintain a backstock of inexpensive wired buds. The Sonys are pretty all right when I can find them.
Nebula link if you pay for that. There's extra stuff at the end about smart watches.
i have tiny ear canals and pretty much the only earbuds that do fit me are etymotics. wireless design alone makes them impossible to fit me.
etymotic gang
I've had the ER4S for over fifteen years. Unparalleled sound isolation. :sicko-yes:
GamerNexus did an OK video that's like this, though not quite as grand scale, about how all of those gamer chairs are fucking awful for your body and made by a very small number of producers in China with different colours and logos slapped on. They know it's a trend that's about to collapse but everyone wants to make money while they can.
