The phone is useless as well when the battery is drained. I prefer BT and will not use wired.
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iPhone X Apple: Put back headphone jack or I will switch to Android.
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The phone is useless as well when the battery is drained. I prefer BT and will not use wired.
I would say most consumers are not willing to abandon the iPhone just because the deleted 3.5 mm Jack. As others have alluded to, Bluetooth has grown exponentially with wireless headphones, and a 3.5 mm Jack being deleted isn’t necessarily that big of a problem when we have the convenience without wires.
I agree 100%
I is just stupid to get rid of the headphone jack!
If the phone needs to be a little thicker to accommodate the jack then make it a little bigger! It would make it stronger and less fragile also probably.
I think creating a water resistant phone attributed to the decision to lose the headphone jack.
I agree with this to a point. But sometimes a company makes a change for the betterment of the company and has nothing to do with the consumer. I have no issues with apple removing the HP jack, but I can see how it can affect others. The more apple removes wires, the more dongles we need
You'll be heading to Android for sure if that is your requirement, so why wait? Go ahead and make the switch now. You can probably get a good deal on the S9+ and the camera is very good.
S9 plus is a solid device. I really want to switch back to apple but between the quirks and the price I can not bring myself to do it.
The watch and the sycn and transition is flawless and everything works well.
It just that stuff is a bit pricy and there are a few things that made me swicth from Apple that I did not like.
Now when I mainly use the phone for internet, text, and calls and occasional social media I can not see myself spending more to do that.
Yes I want a Plus, and air pods, and a macbook air, I want the apple watch as well, and I do want to go back to apple music.
Figure tomorrow I will make up my final deicision. Either an 8 plus and do the annual upgrade early this fall along with an apple watch and air pods for sure or go with an S9 due to price. and the fact I am engrossed and got everything switched over now....
What do you mean price? The S9 plus from is from 839.99. https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-s9/buy/s/Device/
The 8 plus is from 799.99...https://www.apple.com/us-k12/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-8
I could care less for the headphone jack although it did come in handy one day.
They usually are the initiators of the tech.
If I didn't have a spare battery already charged to pop in, I would just use the cable that came with my phones and put up with the dongle.
Which is nice and all but you basically have to make sure to have it in you and it also doesn't really do much when it comes to being able to charge the phone while you use wired headphones (be they 2.5mm or Lightning).
Exactly opposite of what I did, I gave up 3.5mm audio jack and great earbuds I owned just To stay iOS which was more important to me. Its what everyone should do on a personal choice.
Got my Beats X (neck buds) today and it’s much better than wireless earbuds that seem too awkward for me sticking out of my ears like Herman Munster. They Feel natural in ear with nice fit and easy to forget your wearing them when wrapped with connected magnets around my neck when not in use.
Decent sound but I’ve had/heard better. Paid only $119 on sale so it was worthy.
When I really want audio, I listen to a real headphone I own powered by DAC & AMP.
you leave the adapter connected to your headphones...
charging and having it plugged in is a different story. wireless charging is your friend then. unless you want to use your phone charge it and listen to music.
just get the adapters they have that have two ports for charging and the headphone jack.
Me personally I havent used wired headphones in 4 years or so now. the jaybird line of bluetooth was finally good enough to get rid of all wired stuff and I couldn't be happier with no wires. Not sure why people complain so much there are options
Wireless charging isn't much help with an iPhone 7. Nor is it much help if you are somewhere where you don't have your wireless charger, which is far far from being as ubiquitous as a cable these days. As for adapters, they aren't the most reliable unfortunately, having gone through a number of them, including the Belkin ones (which are still not even official ones as Apple doesn't even have those).
Basically yes there are options out there which are more cumbersome and often enough less reliable when it comes to rather simple things that could be done without a second thought with previous iPhones or even other Apple devices.
hey what can you do. Complain and switch or adapt with what is new. time to go wireless and move on with your life. You can still use the dongle if you want to use your wired headphones sometimes.
Well, not jumping into a whole different use of something just because someone decided that essentially, so adapting through means I can find (like the adapters, when needed), for the time being at least, but at the same time expressing my opinion about it when fitting.