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Re:Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack by cryptoz on Friday February 09, 2018 @08:33AM (#16340013)
I'm not OP but I have a Pixel 2 with no headphone jack and it ruins me daily. I have the adapter yes, but it is lost 100% of the time. And when I want to use it I cannot find it. I find myself literally standing in the cold with my ears freezing off and headphones in with no music. Because I left the house without the 1mm thick nearly invisible adapter.

Not once in two months have I remembered it when I go out. I hate hate hate hate hate how much this phone cost and how vastly more inconvenient is compared to my last phone. I cannot wait for the return of the headphone jack on phones if true!

Edit: how long does it take to switch your Bluetooth headphones from a computer to a phone? If it is more than 1 second, it's a stupid waste of time as well. I'm not putting up with that decline in usability especially if am expected to spend money on it and throw into the landfill my perfectly good headphones. No thanks.

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Re:Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack by mscrivo on Friday February 09, 2018 @08:36AM (#16340032)
Why not just keep it connected to your headphones/earbuds wire all the time? Clunky, I admit, but at least you won't lose it.
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Re:Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack by cryptoz on Friday February 09, 2018 @08:38AM (#16340049)
How do they plug into anything else then? The computers I have don't take that port. My friends phones don't take it. My other devices don't take it. I can't leave it in without buying another pair of headphones for all my other devices.
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Re:Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack by ryanwaggoner on Friday February 09, 2018 @08:38AM (#16340048)
I’m curious why you can’t:

1. Keep the adapter on the headphones cord

2. Get headphones for USB-C (or whatever the Pixel uses)

3. Get Bluetooth headphones

I mean, I understand that you feel like you shouldn’t have to do those things, and you won’t buy one of these again, but it sounds like this is ruining your life. Why not just fix the problem?

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Re:Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack by cryptoz on Friday February 09, 2018 @08:41AM (#16340066)
1. How do I use the headphones in a different product then?

2. I have perfectly good headphones and am not buying more. Period.

3. Why would I spend more money on this for a product I hate? No way am I buying new headphones that I will hate. Bad idea for my sanity.

I will fix the problem by never dealing with a crap phone like this. Next phone will definitely have a headphone jack.

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Re:Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack by zimpenfish on Friday February 09, 2018 @08:46AM (#16340099)
#4 Get a Bluetooth dongle like the TaoTronics TT-BA08

https://www.taotronics.com/taotronics-tt-ba08-bluetooth-4.1-...

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Re:Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack by cryptoz on Friday February 09, 2018 @08:48AM (#16340110)
That sounds awful. I am not buying some something else that I don't want to own just to fix a problem that shouldn't be a problem in the first place.

Also that page is a 404.

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Re:Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack by zimpenfish on Friday February 09, 2018 @09:16AM (#16340287)
Page is working fine for me. Ho hum. And no, it's not awful, it's a pragmatic solution to not having to buy new headphones and not having to use a dongle - both of which were complained about :)
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Re:Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack by lukeschlather on Friday February 09, 2018 @12:51PM (#16342273)
It's a $30 dongle that also needs to be charged. You can get a decent wired headset for $30.
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Re:Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack by zimpenfish on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:57AM (#16357219)
> You can get a decent wired headset for $30.

What are you going to plug it into if your phone has no headphone socket?

This thread is -specifically- about when you -can't- plug your existing headphones into your phone.

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Re:Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack by ryanwaggoner on Friday February 09, 2018 @12:33PM (#16342117)
OK. Just offering some suggestions, but it seems like you’re more invested in complaining than fixing the problem.
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Re:Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack by zeveb on Friday February 09, 2018 @01:03PM (#16342388)
I really hope that someone from a phone manufacturer reads this: it's a textbook example of what you don't want your users to experience.

> I hate hate hate hate hate how much this phone cost and how vastly more inconvenient is compared to my last phone.

This, right here, says it all.

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Re:Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack by umanwizard on Friday February 09, 2018 @08:35AM (#16340028)
The person you’re replying to mentioned Bluetooth.
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Re:Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack by cryptoz on Friday February 09, 2018 @08:42AM (#16340070)
The battery will die. No thanks. They don't plug in to / work with anything else I own easily. No thanks. I already had headphones and am not buying more. Bluetooth pairing takes me on average 15 minutes and usually fails. I would have to be pairing like 5-10 times a day and that sounds like a literal nightmare.
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