Why the phone jack is NEVER coming back 📱🎧❌
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Since the iPhone 7’s release in 2016, the humble headphone jack has been phased out of flagship phones to many people’s dismay. Has the time come for us to finally get over its omission? Jide Akinrinade gives his thoughts.
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Thanks for watching everyone! To my fellow jack ***s, what were the pair of wireless headphones that made you cut the cord permanently? Sound off in the comments!
I am the only person who sees how much worse wireless earphones are for the planet?
It should be a choice. There’s literally no good reason to take it out.
I cant imagine my next phone without a head phone jack. My car doesn’t have Bluetooth or usb plugs! But has a aux cord port.
Not having a headphone jack on a smartphone is like selling a condom with a hole in the end and then separately selling a seal.
If you love music it’s not even close,even with lossless audio it’s not there, maybe in years but not now. This guy doesn’t love music.
the horse analogy is pretty stupid. Since unlike the horse and car, the horse isn’t faster or stronger than a car.
You don’t need to remove the headphone jack (which provides no latency high quality audio), to have wireless (with latency and much worse quality audio).
Fudge that, gimme back the jack. Quality is better (there are MUCH better wired headphones than wireless) and I never need to think about charging earphones. It is all dictated by marketing in the end, dictated by profit and trend rather than quality.
This guy is a tool for a company. coming from another black dude. I still want my headphone jack
What a garbage take
This idiot is literally promoting anti-consumer practices by these corporations designed explicitly to milk consumers for more of their money. How about instead you rub two brain cells together and actually speak out when companies consistently remove features from devices. Removal batteries, headphone jacks, MicroSD expansion, and now the goddamn charger?!? Seriously, these companies are just trying to see how much they can get away with and consumers like this moron blindly and uncritically follow suit.
This should be just an opinion.
Companies should provide the option to enjoy the music in both wired and wireless ways. Wireless is for mobility, Wired is for quality in your home or office, when you do not need to move around.
This video should be an opinion, but not an essay when you say to the people what they had to prefer. It is disrespectful.
i love my wired headphones i have some that have been with me for over 5 yrs and no issues. and i dont have to worry about running out of battery
I’m still wanting the Jack, works better with my 2010 car that doesn’t have BT.
Try using your phone for business with a Plantronics headset with a jack. I dumped my iphone for and LG because it has a jack. As far as lossless streaming. Balony, there is no such thing.
The saying remains eternal: “No jack, no buy”
Companies not longer have to innovative unless there’s a monetary incentive to do so.
People hate unnecessary change
One thing he didn’t mention was the fact that wireless earbuds don’t last long; one year at best. What do you do with them afterwards? Trash them. So how does that effect the environment.
i don’t want wireless headphones.
wired is superior on all metrics to me.
The fact that we are still having this conversation means there is something to discuss.
I went back to mp3 players and dumb phones, sick of smartphones.
Removing the headphone jack was just a cash grab.
The main reason I don’t like Bluetooth headphones is because they have to be charged and wireless does not and I get headaches when I use Bluetooth headphones.
We can stop using spoon and fork, because it’s not working anymore.
Any argument in favor of removal of jack is industry technobable, and we are good at reproducing it.
Coming back? It never went in my case. Still 95% wired!
Wow, this video is wildly condescending and has really put a bad taste in my mouth for CNET. I’m surprised it’s still even up.
Crazy! I will hold on to my note 9. Bluetooth headphones died and I just simply plugged in my wired headphones.
I can’t even watch this video because of how unrealistic and severely biased it is. You don’t need to remove the headphone jack in order to utilize Bluetooth headphones ergo there’s literally no reason to remove it. Nor did I see you point out any positives of using wired headphones. Anyone who takes up for apple on this decision literally makes no sense and is probably just an industry plant taking up for apple so they can make money so I wouldn’t trust anything they say. I’m sorry C‑NET but the average Joe disagrees with you. You can use wireless headphones and still have a headphone jack. Having more options will always be better. I can’t imagine many sensible people disagreeing with that.
Why can’t these tech journalists just do real journalism instead of taking up for all the big tech companies. Seems like that’s all they do now. Really makes you think..🤨
Just for the convenience of having my headphones ready to work whenever my phone is ready i’m prepared to deal with the tangling any day of the week.
And i use wired headphones to locate my phone in my bag, with wireless i never know where i put it.
Also… have fun with wireless headphones when their battery dies.
Are you kidding? I’m a Sound Engineer and the headphone jack is essential. What a stupid move to remove the headphone jack. Not to mention the EMF radiation hitting the brain head on.
What a garbage video. Wired will always be superior.
I hate this video so much
I ditched iPhone for that
Let’s not forget that Apple doesn’t support LDAC with their AirPods
What a dumb video.
Vid gets a thumbs down on stance alone sorry bro
I have a Samsung Galaxy A52s and never have I ever used the headphone jack, I’m more used to listening to music or watching videos with my Galaxy Buds Live.
Never
LG V60: has what is still the best headphone jack on a phone with the quad DAC. Has fantastic haptics, and didn’t sacrifice a thing.
It also still has most(doesn’t have lhdc) of the high end Bluetooth codecs which now you have more companies just making their own proprietary codecs. Which isn’t good.
With how stupidly large an iphone 14 pro max or a Galaxy s23 ultra is there’s no real excuse to not have it other than just to get more true wireless sales.
I mean, if your first concern is working out, then you shouldn’t be saying much. People who care about the phone jack want it back because of audio quality. I don’t go to the gym, you have the option to use wireless if you wish, but let people who actually want to listen to music or anything else with good quality audio have a choice. Didn’t even watch the rest of the video after that.
$250 samsung buds do not compare to may old $12 akg samsung headphones. The wired headphones gave me the freedom to choose between quality audio and portability. Usbc has nothing on even Bluetooth. Now im stuck with $200+ disposable headphones.
A phone jack doesn’t need charging.
Keep the old school stuff!
some embarrassing apologia for anti consumer, anti environmental tactics.… Removing a feature is not innovation. There’s nothing remotely innovative about removing something and not replacing it. Phones with headphone jacks already have bluetooth so there’s no benefit
bluetooth is security flaw, drains battery, makes pairing a pain if you have a bunch of devices, poor audio quality, dropping audio/random sync issues, poor durability since the batteries are basically useless after a year of moderate use, not as high of volume, ect ect. the irony is we are all obsessed about a universal port like usb c that doesnt care about its orientation when weve had that since the 1960s. the 3.5mm headphone jack was the universal ultradurable port. apple even made a device that used the 3.5mm headphone jack as the OG universal port, the ipod shuffle 3rd gen. you could charge, send control commands, transfer data. and it never ever breaks, other than the occasional pocket lint that can get in it. stop making all these garbage cables that break if you hang them at a weird angle or insert them wrong side up/drop them. the 3.5mm headphone jack was indestructible because it was and is still used in heavy use industry. if you need more bandwidth, the aviation grade headphone/microphone jacks are also a thing like for all radio sets on air planes. those plugs are indestructible, and survive 20+ years of hard daily use. usbc is meh. a solution to a problem that didnt really exist until apple started disappearing industry standard ports to make more money.
Wireless’ audio is compresed and its crap. There’s no better way to put it
Car — horse comparison only works if
The horse is faster
The horse is 1/20 the price
The horse does not eat enything ever