The irony of the meme being that the food critic ends up loving Remy’s ratatouille. Meaning Bluetooth would bring him to a simpler time like the ratatouille did in the movie
Back when he grew up just listening to music rather than being a bitter adult worrying about bitrates.
When I was a kid, I used to drop my CD rips down to a 32,000kHz sample rate to make the WAV files smaller, because I couldn’t figure out MP3s yet. Adult me is horrified by the notion. But back then, sounding good enough was acceptable.
Don’t even get me started on the fact you can’t just replace a fucking battery anymore.
Gotta keep that IP68 rating!
There are ip68 seals for phone frames so you can open it to replace the battery
Pretty sure that has almost nothing to do with it.
There are other non-smartphone consumer electronics with IP68 and user replaceable batteries.
Manufacturers refuse to use nanoguard in their electronics despite being like a dollar
Bluetooth is amazing, don’t get me wrong. But it doesn’t always work and it’s hard to figure out why something won’t connect. Plugging something works every time.
Plus most Bluetooth modes have horrendous latency, which is jarring when playing a mobile game.
Until the jack takes a hit and you can’t repair it.
oh yeah cause its way easier to repair something that uses bluetooth after it takes a hit
That’s not what I said now is it?
yeah thats how stuff that’s implied works
My last phone purchase went something like this:
“What phones do you have with a headphone jack?”
“Uh, I don’t think any. Maybe one? I’d have to look.”
“I’ll take that one.”
“But we–”
“Only spec that matters is a headphone jack.”
“There’s bluetoo–”
“Headphone jack.”
Gotta look for either a budget or non-major brand phone. I went with an Asus phone for my last upgrade (previous was an LG V60). Sony Xperia and some of the Chinese ‘gaming’ phones also have them.
Yep a bottom of the barrel phone from a no-name brand will still have an audio jack…
But the fucking Pixel line doesn’t. Pixels are the only real non-dogshit phone if you want a secure OS.
Sometimes you have to choose between two important things.
Sometimes you have to choose between two important things.
i love losing my little tiny dongle with a fragile little cable that I need to take off my phone to charge and need to take off my headphones to use them on other devices ♥️
Yeah it sucks. Though the usb-c converters will actually work on anything with USB-C
I have the slightly bigger green adapter that does charge and 3.5 jack and it’s 32 bit/384khz. And the two tips are magnetic so you can split it. It sounds great with my IEMs
Right? This — and literally nothing but this — is what all the outrage is about. Still, none of my business; everyone can buy whatever phones they want.
Which one did you get? :)
An open box A12 for I think $40. Working fine for almost two years now.
Same goes for SD card readers! I don’t want to pay extra for storage I already have!
There’s barely even an excuse for it, as most of these phones have a dual SIM tray and one of those can be a dual SIM/SD slot. It’s just enshittification so they can upsell $25 of storage for a $200 model upgrade.
$25?? What about subscriptions people pay for storage? It’s nuts.
This. I have an s20FE which is one of the last samsungs to keep the microsd slot. I’m considering very carefully what I should get for my next phone and this is one of my most wanted features, besides 3.5mm aux.
let me use a goddamn headphone, Jack
So… I sorted by TOP— ALL TIME to try to understand this group and I got to this post and realized: you are my people.
And I still don’t “get” the sub but you are my people.
For those who are looking, the Sony Xperia line has a number of phones with both an sd card slot and a headphone jack.
And 2 years of security updates.
They type of person who owns a set of wired headphones or earphones for over a decade doesn’t replace their phone every 2 years.
And these days you really shouldn’t try and keep a device on the internet without updates.
It’s why the fair phone got rightly trashed when they ditched the headphone jack. Battery powered ear buds were completely against their demographics
HMD make decent repairable phones with a headphone jack. They took the Nokia brand for a while but they’re now just HMD and they’re doing some cool modular stuff with cases too.
I’ve found that bluetooth headphones are about just as cheap as wired ones and being free of the cable makes a big difference.
Washing dishes? Don’t have to worry about your phone being to far away from you.
Laying in bed? Don’t have to worry about headphones getting pulled out of your ears because you rolled over.
Yea it’s a good thing the batteries in them are made of fairy dust that just appears and disappears with no problems whatsoever.
I usually manage to destroy my headphones well before the battery starts turning into a problem.
Maybe I shouldn’t wear them for 10 hours a day.
See, this might be ok if there were two of them. But now when the battery gets low you are required to stop listening.
I see your point but, isn’t this more cumbersome than wired earbuds/headphones?
Sure, but what’s the use case at this point anyway?
“My bluetooth headset ran out of battery and my phone ran out of battery and I want to listen to music.” How often does that really happen?
Bluetooth is less cumbersome than all of these choices, but for under a tenner you can solve all these drawbacks. Whack it in a pocket of your travel bag with your earbuds and away you go. I genuinely couldn’t even tell you the last time I saw somebody in real life with wired headphones. My bluetooth AKGs actually have a headphone socket, that I’ve used exactly twice. Once to watch an in flight movie on a 480p screen on the back of a headrest, and again to use them with my Switch since for some bonkers reason it didn’t support bluetooth headphones for ages, despite having a BT receiver on board. No idea where the cable is for them now. I doubt I’ll need it again.
I travel 8+ hours by train several times a week, and regularly go a day or two without access to power where I sleep. By all means, I’m not the average consumer, but the situation of “need to change while also wanting to use my headset” comes up often enough.
I need a new phone and I want to cry because it is seeming that the Pixel Pro with Graphene is the best I can do. New phones fucking suck, It’ not about “I need the MAXIMUM PRIVACY 90000” it’s “I want some control, I’m not buying a Samsung ever again due to the mountain of irremovable bloatware”
I want a Linux phone not because I want privacy, no, I want to use my phone freely without rooting it.
