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It probably has something to do with the headphone jack. It's hard to drill holes into something and make it water resistant.
by chias 7y ago
It probably has something to do with the headphone jack. It's hard to drill holes into something and make it water resistant.
- onlyrealcuzzo 7y agoI don't know anything about hardware. What's so different about a headphone jack verses a USBc port?
- PascLeRasc 7y agoNothing electrically that impacts waterproofing, but if the headphone jack straddles the front and back covers mechnical sealing will be harder. I think USB should actually be more difficult to waterproof, since there's more spaces for drops of water to stick vs a "hole", the pins are closer to make shorting easier, and there's higher voltages being passed over the pins when charging. The only thing I can think of is that surface tension of water would prevent droplets from forming in a tiny dense USB-C port and not so in a 3.5mm jack, but that's a bit of a stretch.
- martyvis 7y agoI have a LG V30+ that has USB-C and a head phone jack. It has glass front/back with a continuous metal edge band ( except for the antenna insulators). It has a IP68 waterproof rating. ( It's basically the same hardware as Pixel 2XL)
- CoolGuySteve 7y agoMy Moto x4 has a headphone jack, is water resistant, and sells for $120 currently (I paid $200 2 years ago). Spec wise, it's not even that much worse than this phone other than the atrocious camera quality. That camera is really the only reason I ordered the 3a today.