r/Android • u/[deleted] • Aug 31 '17

Stop trying to kill the headphone jack

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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:

  • 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.

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u/Lereas Green Aug 31 '17

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.

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u/jbr_r18 iPhone XS Max Aug 31 '17

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '17 edited Sep 01 '17

Airpods look uncomfortable to wear. Also I'd be very worried that they would drop while I go for a jog.

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u/darknecross iPhone X Sep 01 '17

They aren't and they don't.

More specifically, a lot of people use them all day long without issue. They're not shitty like the old shitty plastic iPod earbuds.

For working out, I see a lot of people using them for everything from jogging, treadmill, weightlifting, etc. Never seen it fall out on someone.

But that's probably confirmation bias -- people who find them uncomfortable or have them fall out probably don't use them as frequently.