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Re:They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headpho... by watwut on Monday September 02, 2024 @11:10AM (#41426055)
> Not sure why the author thinks this hasn't been happening already, and the 3.5mm jack is simply losing the popular vote.

When you are buying smartphone, you can not selectively select the features. If you used iPhone and bought apps, you will buy iPhone even if it is missing jack or whatever.

I know that I disliked quite a lot about how phones were/are changing ... and when my phone life ends, I have to buy another one. I have no real choice when it comes to this.

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Re:They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headpho... by thusky on Monday September 02, 2024 @11:43AM (#41426398)
Same, one generation 3.5mm was a given, next time I needed a phone I have no choice. Who asked me? I would have, if given the choice, bought a phone with wired headphones, an SD card slot, and an IR blaster like my previous phone had but none of those were options. Now the phone I have is bigger than I wanted, has worse battery life, and kills my run tracking apps once the screen has been off for 2 minutes with no option to disable that behavior (obviously spackling over the pitifully small battery by annoyingly killing anything using power)

On the plus side it has a 120 hz display that doesn't help me either.

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