On a recent post, there were a lot of comments, which said that they were missing the headphones on newer mobile devices.
How many actually use the headphone jack?
I ask, because I have one on my phone, since I really wanted one, but I rarely use it. Like Tops 1/Month.
I do. I recently bought a new phone and this was non-negotiable. My headphones are good and my desire to bring Bluetooth and batteries into the equation is a cool zero at most.
I completely understand this sentiment. Bluetooth is not what is promised on the surface. There are too many conflicting versions. Even worse are the proprietary codecs that must be licensed by both your phone and your headphones in order to work optimally. If one or the other doesn’t have a license it falls back to whatever the basic license free options are.
Only recently have cheap and easy to manage devices like the pixel-a buds that allow one click device switching come into existence. And even those are $100 compared to the cost of a similar audio quality set of wired headphones, that’s a lot.
Generally, keeping things charged isn’t an issue for me but I don’t use my earbuds out and about a lot. If I was commuting to the office daily it would be something I’d have to plan for.