I agree, fwiw
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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I want my preamp back too, goddammit. Take my rage vote for doing this right.
Used for a bigger battery? Lol. OP has never taken a phone apart. Aux port might get you another 20mah. Out of that 4,415mah battery.
Analog ports all the way.
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Bah. Where is it? It was right here. I just have to
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find the fucking adapter. It was right in my bag in the side. Why
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is it not in that pocket? It's always there. Could
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it have fallen out? Into genpop where
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my gym clothes were? Why doesn't it fit in the winder with
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the earbuds anyway? I always lose it. Aw shit. It's Steve from
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confidential, and he is under 60 so he hates voicemail. But so do I so..
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I guess I'll have to wait until he can leave the secure area and turn on his phone and send me an SMS.
Been waiting a while, though. How long is this gonna take? I have to drive home before the sitter leaves.
Look. He's not calling me back. He's probably pissed because I was so insistent and now it looks like I flaked. And now, we've been idling in the parking lot for 10 minutes and so we gotta go before Laurie's mom comes.
Okay. Onto the freeway. Home in 30.
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I suspect this is unpopular in the tech community, but if this were truly an unpopular opinion, then phones without a headphone jack wouldn't sell, and they would be replaced in the next generation. Instead, it seems like I get fewer and fewer options each time I look for a phone at the intersection of qualities that matter to me (unlocked bootloader, sd card, headphone jack).
Admittedly I was very stuck in the 'I hate phones not having Aux' camp because I preferred wired headphones for the longest time.
I was given some fairly poor wireless headphones and was pleasantly surprised by those, so I bought a good quality set myself. Now I've gotten so used to being untethered from my phone while listening to music, or podcasts, etc that I don't think I'd go back to wired headphones while mobile.
That just leaves stereo systems, portable speakers, vehicles and the like. All of those, instead of carrying around or leaving an aux-aux cable, swap that for a usb c to aux cable.
Or even one of these:
As OP said, more space for battery. It's also one less opening to waterproof. It took me a good long while, but I've come around to agree a headphone jack just isn't worth the extra space it takes up. It's not worthless, but there's better ways to use the space.
Upvote. Upvote for a 2.5mm too.
Everybody gangster until they lose an Air Pod.
I'm still rocking a 7-year-old Galaxy S9+. A few years ago my headphone jack wore out and the gapped hole no longer retains my earbud cable. Since then, I've been using a USB-C adapter, but the combined earbud and charging use is starting to take it's toll and the port is beginning to feel loose.
Adapter use seems more abusive to the USB port than just charging, as it occurs when the phone may be in a tight place (like a pocket), with torque applied to the adapter body. I'm convinced that if I was limited to USB-only over the full life of this phone, I would have lost wired headphone and wired charging capability a long time ago.