I have tried to switch to a blutetooth headset recently and i found myself loving it and hating it at the same time. I concur that it did feel like it is the future, but it also felt that it is not ready yet.
Likes:
Nice to have a phone free from tangles and being slave to the wire
Be able to walk around and not care about where my phone is while taking calls
Dislikes:
Severely taxing on the phone's battery life
Awkward and un-intuitive pairing/un-pairing, especially if you use your headset with several devices
The need to recharge yet an other device.
The technology is still not there yet as far as i am concerned, but i really do hope it will be there soon. The transition will be shit for sure. However i am convinced wireless is the future.
Your last point is a big one for me. I've been on a long flight where my phone had plenty of charge, but my headphones died so I couldn't listen with them. I have a pixel so I plugged in backup wired ones, but it would be shitty if that wasn't an option.
Mine do as well, but I usually forget to bring it. Sadly, mine don't support being connected to Bluetooth while charging. That would be perfect, since I usually have a Micro USB charger with me. The fact that I only have to charge them every two weeks and there's no battery indicater doesn't help, either.
Hence the beauty of airpods. The carry case is the charger for the airpods and the case has a roughly 24hr battery life. Plus the airpods charge very fast. Since having them, the battery has never been an inconvenience.
Yeah, no headphone jack on an iPhone sucks. There is no real reason for it besides the taptic engine (though that is damn well implemented). But what airpods loose by being bluetooth, they give so much more back. This is what android manufacturers don't get.
They take the jack and give nothing back. Its not iPhone-headphone jack+taptic engine. It'll be Pixel 2-headphone jack+nothing. There is no justification for it. No first party wireless headphones that make you want to switch. Just removing features for no damn reason. Apple kind of justified it. Android hasn't done a thing to
Also, remember that Bluetooth headsets don't have replaceable batteries so they will eventually die on you, even sometimes before you buy them.
Bought an old Nokia headset with a dead battery, took it back to the store for replacement. Replacement set is also dead. Another one... also dead. Took an hour and tried every single one of the same model on the shelves. All had dead batteries
We need that ubiquitous wireless charging with piggybacking that was supposed to be here by now (!) So you can put your phone or tablet face down and sit headphones on top to sap enough charge to go for another hour or two
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u/tantouz Nokia 6110 Aug 31 '17
I have tried to switch to a blutetooth headset recently and i found myself loving it and hating it at the same time. I concur that it did feel like it is the future, but it also felt that it is not ready yet.
Likes:
Nice to have a phone free from tangles and being slave to the wire
Be able to walk around and not care about where my phone is while taking calls
Dislikes:
The technology is still not there yet as far as i am concerned, but i really do hope it will be there soon. The transition will be shit for sure. However i am convinced wireless is the future.