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I am afraid it is a lost battle for now. On the high end only Sony offers a jack on the Xperia 1 and Xperia 5. Everyone else abandoned it. On the mid end ther
by alexvoda 4y ago
I am afraid it is a lost battle for now.
On the high end only Sony offers a jack on the Xperia 1 and Xperia 5. Everyone else abandoned it.
On the mid end there is still Sony and Chinese manufactures.
Samsung, Apple, Google abandoned it on almost all phones. Even Xiaomi, Oppo/OnePlus and Honor abandoned it on many models.
Maybe in the future the tide will turn and we will once again have it.
- nonbirithm 4y agoI once saw the 3.5mm jack referred to as "retro" by a tech media outlet once. Except I was the kind of person to use it every week before my original Pixel XL died. It's one of the reasons I got an Xperia. All the other devices I looked at had some combination of no headphone jack, excessively rounded corners, curved screens, or an intrusive camera notch. The Xperia was the only device on the market that appealed to me in comparison, plus it has an SD Card slot so hopefully the flash memory will last longer. Thinking about it, one could say that Sony is culturally far behind the other flagship brands in failing to keep up with the (what I would consider regressive) trends in smartphone releases. They're one of the few Japanese companies that release their phones overseas. If they'd made a product that was more appealing to the masses with the expectations set by most brands, then I probably wouldn't have cared for it. But given how much of an outlier the Xperia series is, it feels like something stops them from doing so.