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Then don't buy this phone. Headphones will soon all be either wireless or use USB C or lighting anyway. And if there are headphones that do not, use an adapter.
by rmwaite 9y ago
Then don't buy this phone. Headphones will soon all be either wireless or use USB C or lighting anyway. And if there are headphones that do not, use an adapter.
- mattnewton 9y agoNo one is going to move to usb c or lightning, it offers absolutely no intrinsic advantages over the 3.5 jack and isn’t going away from laptops, desktops, speakers and other electronics. You’ll just buy dongles or Bluetooth.
- WillPostForFood 9y agoThey end up having an intrinsic advantage when they are the only port present. I want the same jack for my headphones on my phone and laptop. I wish it was a 3.5mm, but since it isn't I'd prefer a lightning or USB C that did.
- ori_b 9y agoI won't, but I also don't want this regression to catch on and propagate.
- kuschku 9y agoI bought headphones from Sennheiser with lifelong guarantee once, and I plan to use them until I die, just like my parents used their Sennheisers for decades. There’s many people exactly like that.
- jamesrcole 9y agoThere might be many people like that, but given the cost of such headphones they'd have to be a small percentage of the overall population of phone/headphone users.
- kuschku 9y agoThey don’t have to be super expensive – even 160€ headphones from sennheiser are awesome, and you can get replacement parts and repairs for decades.
- jamesrcole 9y agoAre these the ones with lifelong guarantees that you mentioned and I was responding to?
- kuschku 9y agoNo, only 24 to 60 months of all failures repaired, for free, without questions asked. Afterwards you can get all parts replaced for basically nothing, though, or buy the replacement parts and do it yourself (I just replaced the leather pads and cabling on mine)