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You are joking right? They've managed to fit it in for >10yrs what changed now? Lol I won't buy a phone w/ out a headphone jack. Non cabled audio sucks for late

You are joking right? They've managed to fit it in for >10yrs what changed now? Lol I won't buy a phone w/ out a headphone jack. Non cabled audio sucks for latency and quality, dongles aren't an acceptable answer either...

esperent 4y ago
Say rather "the headphone jack no longer passes the test". There's all kinds of things they could add to phones - bigger battery, headphone jack, sd card slot, heart rate sensor, infrared remote, and loads more, and then all the hundreds of components they do include. They have to pack it all into this tiny tiny amount of space and they have to make decisions about what to include. That used to include headphone jack, now it doesn't. You're upset about that, while I'd really love if phones included heart rate sensors. But we're both in a minority it seems. It's important to remember that when you see lots of people on the internet complain about something, that doesn't mean that the majority care. The majority don't care even a tiny bit so they don't speak about it at all. Only the minority who do care speak up. And if the majority of headphone jacks go unused maybe it's not reasonable for the remaining few who care to demand they stay - they are another potential point of failure and ingress in a phone, after all.
- 8note 4y ago
  The jack space is just replaced by a jack shaped piece of plastic though. I take apart every phone I've owned to replace the screen many times, and it's not like it's a tradeoff for something else that could take the space. Just BOM reduction
- Glant 4y ago
  Not sure about the 6a, but the regular pixel 6 arguably only has the bigger battery and even then I still can't get 2 days of use between charging. No headphone jack, no SD card, no IR remote, heart beat sensing is done via camera instead of its own sensor. Maybe the tensor chip takes a lot of space. The rest of your argument seems sound enough.

esperent 4y ago

Say rather "the headphone jack no longer passes the test". There's all kinds of things they could add to phones - bigger battery, headphone jack, sd card slot, heart rate sensor, infrared remote, and loads more, and then all the hundreds of components they do include. They have to pack it all into this tiny tiny amount of space and they have to make decisions about what to include. That used to include headphone jack, now it doesn't. You're upset about that, while I'd really love if phones included heart rate sensors. But we're both in a minority it seems. It's important to remember that when you see lots of people on the internet complain about something, that doesn't mean that the majority care. The majority don't care even a tiny bit so they don't speak about it at all. Only the minority who do care speak up. And if the majority of headphone jacks go unused maybe it's not reasonable for the remaining few who care to demand they stay - they are another potential point of failure and ingress in a phone, after all.

8note 4y ago
The jack space is just replaced by a jack shaped piece of plastic though. I take apart every phone I've owned to replace the screen many times, and it's not like it's a tradeoff for something else that could take the space. Just BOM reduction
Glant 4y ago
Not sure about the 6a, but the regular pixel 6 arguably only has the bigger battery and even then I still can't get 2 days of use between charging. No headphone jack, no SD card, no IR remote, heart beat sensing is done via camera instead of its own sensor. Maybe the tensor chip takes a lot of space. The rest of your argument seems sound enough.