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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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