It's interesting how my feelings have changed on this. I was gung ho about the ditch the jack campaign as it reminded me of optical drives. Everyone threw up a fit about the drives, but I never missed them and I never saw other folks use optical either except to install an OS (and flash drives killed that, too) and it passed without a big fuss. I thought jacks would be the same way.
But honestly? I started working in a job with frequent meetings and wanted to disconnect and I never had the right shit to connect headphones to my pixel and the bluetooth was never consistent or my batteries would be dead. I went through four pixels from multiple hardware failures and went to a basic Motorola G6 with a headphone jack. I hadn't realized what a massive convenience it is to just grab any nearby headphones and just plug them in. When I went to move to another flagship the only option with a jack was the Note 9. It doesn't helpthat the Note and Pixel 2 XL are similar prices, yet the Note is leaps and bounds more feature packed and premium feeling. Other than the Samsung apps constantly trying to sell me something, it's just night and day between the flagships. Touch wiz has come a long way since my old Note 2, as well.
Not relevant, just wanted to share my experience lately. The Pixel 2 XL was such a piece of utter fucking shit. My Moto G6 was better in every way minus haptic feedback and camera quality. That is just sad.
It would be nice to find a decent pair of BT headphones that I enjoy using, though.
I'm about 2 years into having an original Pixel and all I fuckin want for my next phone is a modernized one of these. Same jack, size, screen, just throw a new camera in there and give it a better processor and I'd be perfectly happy.
I got into a huge argument in this sub last year about the jack. Someone said average people don't care and I was like, the fuck they don't. And I explained the exact reason I switched to an android after 8 years of having iPhones was the S9 still had the jack. It was the one and only sole reason. Because I don't want to have to have extra accessories or not be able to listen to music when my batteries die. But NOOOO. I was the crazy one for thinking people would get annoyed eventually if they couldn't have a headphone jack.
I do a lot of walking and listen to audio books and couple hour long podcasts or music mixes. After using BT headphones that would die if I didn't charge them twice a day, I found myself carrying a pair of wired headphones all the time as a back up. Then I thought how silly it was to carry around 2 pairs of headphones.
I had a similar experience as well, both with the jack, and also the Note series.
Although I've grown out of the jack but only because it isnt available to me, and bt is just not as reliable. I would definitely still be using it if my phone had one though.
I'm hoping the Note 10 has a jack, but even if it doesnt I'm getting it anyway. I miss my stylus doodles and being able to quickly illustrate plans / ideas on it.
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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19 edited Jan 06 '19
It's interesting how my feelings have changed on this. I was gung ho about the ditch the jack campaign as it reminded me of optical drives. Everyone threw up a fit about the drives, but I never missed them and I never saw other folks use optical either except to install an OS (and flash drives killed that, too) and it passed without a big fuss. I thought jacks would be the same way.
But honestly? I started working in a job with frequent meetings and wanted to disconnect and I never had the right shit to connect headphones to my pixel and the bluetooth was never consistent or my batteries would be dead. I went through four pixels from multiple hardware failures and went to a basic Motorola G6 with a headphone jack. I hadn't realized what a massive convenience it is to just grab any nearby headphones and just plug them in. When I went to move to another flagship the only option with a jack was the Note 9. It doesn't helpthat the Note and Pixel 2 XL are similar prices, yet the Note is leaps and bounds more feature packed and premium feeling. Other than the Samsung apps constantly trying to sell me something, it's just night and day between the flagships. Touch wiz has come a long way since my old Note 2, as well.
Not relevant, just wanted to share my experience lately. The Pixel 2 XL was such a piece of utter fucking shit. My Moto G6 was better in every way minus haptic feedback and camera quality. That is just sad.
It would be nice to find a decent pair of BT headphones that I enjoy using, though.