• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I still refuse to buy smartphones without a headphone jack either.

    I’m running out of options and I may have to consider a jackless phone next. What are the options?

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      2 months ago

      I went with Samsung XCover 6 Pro. Not only has it a headphone jack but a removable battery as well.

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        2 months ago

        But the performance is terrible for the price. The only jack phone I would reccomend is poco f5.

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          2 months ago

          I don’t play games with my phone. The performance is more than good enough for my use. And it has a removable battery just like the ones I had before

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            2 months ago

            The initial performance is always decent. The problem is the planned obsolessence. To compare two 2017 phones: my mom’s Huawei p10 and my Redmi 4X, for example. The p10’s geekbench score is ~2* the Redmi’s and it’s visible even in simple use. Web browsing works fine on the p10, but on the Redmi, it takes way longer to render a page slightly heavier, than wikipedia. OSMand works on the p10 perfectly, but on the Redmi, it takes very long to calculate routes and crashes often. If you want to use a phone for ~10 years, it’s usually better to invest in a performant one.

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      2 months ago

      If you truly must use your wired headphones with your cell phone? They make some really nice small form factor USB C to audio jack adapters. Hell, saw a few that were cable+adapter+AudiophileApprovedDAC for what that is worth.

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        2 months ago

        Those jacks can’t turn and aren’t strong enough for work. I’m going to turn around quickly, snag a cable and - well, those ports are so dense that I don’t need to really do a lot of damage, do I?

        While I’d normally completely approve of the blatant rip-off that is buying a c$20 adapter to make up for the manufacturer omitting a 3c part on the build, their answer “oh we know the startac was a thing but we just cant figure out how to fit a headphone jack on something twice the size” rings a little hollow. It’s like they’re admitting to stupid.