Just randomly sharing my experience here. My sister told me a few weeks ago she was going to change for a new phone (a Motorola, she likes AOSP-like experience). I noticed that her new phone wouldn’t get a jack.
“Yeah, I know, I hope I can make it work with a USB-adapter”. She has nice headphones that she likes to use, so USB-C earplugs were not an option.
Fast forward to today, she told me the adapter she got starts to malfunction:
- she has to twitch the jack in the adapter for the thing to work
- when she plugs the adapter in, Google Assistant takes over and randomly starts skipping songs.
She’s now considering getting wireless earbuds, but she’s not a fan of having to recharge them to be able to use them, and is also cautious about the e-waste potential.
I have a Moto G84 which does the job. It’s not the best phone in the world, I’m eyeing a flagship from time to time and keep the G84 as a “connected walkman”, but would it break today, I would probably get a G55 (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Motorola-Moto-G55-smartphone-review-Inexpensive-doesn-t-have-to-be-boring.932900.0.html)
That’s it for me, do you have similar experiences to share?
@Blaze It’s sad how tech influencers just rolled over on losing the headphone jack, and now they have this group of tech sycophants that just cluck and regurgitate the same “truthiness” BS about mobile audio.
“Just get over it! Consumers moved on!”
When that’s not only NOT true, we dont have good data to track what people really use, and we see a SHOCKING amount of cabled audio still being purchased.
So called “avuraj cunzoomers” are buying hundreds of thousands of adapters and wired headphones every month in the USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnJ3pQfWZXo