Alternatively, if your current phone doesn’t have a headphone jack, do you wish it did?

  • @abir_vandergriff@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Let’s be honest though, included earbuds were pretty universally garbage and the world is probably better off without the ewaste.

    That said, please bring back the headphone jack.

    • Alto
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      81 year ago

      Mostly true, yeah. The “AKG” ones that came with my S8 were honestly pretty damn nice though.

      • cloaker
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        51 year ago

        AKG ones were always great. I have a USB C pair from an old Samsung and they’re good too.

      • Otter
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        31 year ago

        Yea I had a pair of those that I used for other phones, until I lost the pair.

        I tried getting some “oem” ones from amazon but they weren’t the same

    • edric
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      81 year ago

      One positive for me about the included earphones is they are great utility earphones for when I’m mixing/mastering music. They have a pretty flat and even response so it’s one of the devices I use to test my music on “regular” sound systems to make sure they sound good on all types of equipment.

      • That totally depends on what headphones though. Apple’s maybe, I wasn’t really too discerning last time I had some of those, but on Android it was a mess. Samsung had decent ones some years, Google’s were generally okay at best, and LOADS were just actual trash.

        • edric
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          11 year ago

          Yeah I forgot to mention I was pertaining to the apple wired earphones specifically.

          • Color me surprised to hear that then. The few times I had used them, I couldn’t get over how uncomfortable they were for my ear (which is why I never used then much)

    • qupada
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      31 year ago

      I’ve always been lambasted for this opinion, but I feel the same way about the charging cable and charger.

      I do not want yet another 1 metre (if they’re even that, most likely 3 foot) USB-C cable that barely reaches from the charger on the floor to the bedside table - and largely precludes actually using the phone while in bed - nor particularly the included charger. So many things need to be plugged in these days that single-output chargers are also basically e-waste.

      Of course because some business genius had the idea that making the USB cable 0.9 instead of 1.8m saved them $0.06 per unit shipped, we all got lumped with those useless cables.

      Now of course there will always be people for whom it’s their first phone (or whatever situation), who do need those accessories. But all that requires is there to be a retail bundle with the now-accessory charger and cable. Preferably that bundle costs the same as the phone with them included does today and you get a token discount for the phone without them, although we all know it would never work that way :(

      • I’m in the minority on this myself, but I fully agree. Honestly, I don’t even need the discount, tell me I can make a fraction less plastic waste and I’m pretty much there. When I got a new phone a couple years ago, I just put the cable at my desk so I had a spot to plug in misc stuff, but I definitely didn’t need it.