No Headphone Jack Flashback: G1

[FelixDerKater]

For those of you who don't remember, I found this interesting article from the release of Google's first Android phone...

https://www.wired.com/2008/09/annoying-no-sta

 

[cynics]

How courageous!

 

[decafjava]

Golden! Bookmarking for use against android/samsung fanboys.

 

[firewire9000]

And with a propietary connector!!

 

[ziggo]

Man I remember that phone! Despite the lack of the headset jack it was still popular and, ironically enough as the article states, Apple kind of has the trend of "not giving a damn about traditional headphone jacks" on lock with the very FIRST iPhone which had that weird recessed Jack (total pain in the ass).]

 

[noobinator]

That thing looks like a brick, literally. Amazing how far we've come.

 

[lowendlinux]

I liked my G1 it had an actual keyboard.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

I owned a G1. How technology has evolved since then!

 

[Tsepz]

Those were awful times, with no headphone jack, I remember having a Nokia N80 in the Symbian days, had no 3.5mm jack, then moved to the N81, with its 3.5mm jack and powerful DAC for its time, who would've thought Apple would take things back to 2005 with an iPhone in 2016.

 

[Tarzanman]

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...dphone-jacks-the-first-android-phone.2004530/