I have only bad memories of jack headphones. There always were cable issues.
Hey, that’s untrue!
Sometimes you just had the wrong 3.5mm jack on the headphones for the 3.5mm jack on your phone.
It’s why I don’t really miss it myself.
Seems like in this day and age, the cheaper the phone the more features you get … you can get a cheapo phone (100-150 euro) with a huge 2-day battery, two physical SIM slots AND an SD card slot, headphone jack, ok-ish cameras … usually they’re huge, 6.5" or more …
My $200 Motorola has one, I don’t see the issue here. If headphone jacks are important to you, find a phone that has one. I’ve never had a smartphone without a jack.
I’m glad my current phone has this. Earphones with the cable seems to handle calling while bicycling better ✨
I refurbished my old iPod, new motherboard, new screen, new battery and SD card mod. Given the phone sizes today it feels super light in comparison. Plus battery last much longer now. I’d rather have a headphone jack but it’s actually cool to rock an iPod in 2026.
I get the sentiment, but I’m trying to carry on with the times.
One of my best purchases in recent years is a Bluetooth DAC/Amp with a headphone out. I think it’s a good compromise - I’m not committing to just one set of headphones/earphones, it has (to my ears) better sound quality than my last phone with 3.5 mm out (the better circuitry more than makes up for the loss of quality of Bluetooth - which I’m probably not going to perceive in the outside noise anyway), I can use it plugged in over USB-C too if I want. It even has a replaceable battery (!!). The only downside over traditional Bluetooth headphones is that I don’t have ANC.
I used to carry a dedicated audio player some years ago and it was fine for what it was - press play, shove it in my pocket and carry on; but with a phone that I take out and back in all the time the wired approach doesn’t work, especially with most earphones having a cable barely long enough to reach my pocket.
When, thanks to linux, you manage to resurrect a 10-year-old decent specs pc and you have all the goodies.
Kept my galaxy s8 to use as a DAP. It does everything I need it to but I’m unsure if that phone will be on google’s lockdown list happening soon. Fuck google for that.
I want it back so bad 😞
Let’s not forget our dearly departed SD Card slot.
I wanted to add more space to my stuff, too.
Bruh, I had a phone with an infrared blaster for television. The moment fairphone comes out with something that works with a graphene. I’m in.
But only when wie see this meme again.
Everytime I have to use that removedass dongle I think about this.
I’ve had a Sony phone for my last 2 phones, so quite some time. Great units, WITH that delicious headphones jack AND microSD slot. Praying to the phone gods that this continues.
Didn’t know there was anyone still doing that. I assume no removable battery? Any pre installed bloatware?
Lots of Chinese phones definitely do IR blaster, dual SIM and SD card. I don’t think the headphone jack is as common since it steals a lot of room for something that most people actually do not use or want.
mine is dual SIM. i don’t think i’ve ever used that slot since my cellphone telephone company moved to eSIMs. I’d rather have the microSD slot
The Motorola Moto G (at least for now) also has both
I’ve own 3 Moto Gs. They are good budget bricks. But they do not age well as far as software goes.
Current phone is my first without it. Couldn’t find a small enough phone with one - I don’t care about specs, but phones aren’t made for human hands any more.
Some people have big hands
Yeah me, lol. Phones are still too big.
As someone with hands on the bigger side I still find today’s phones too big. My current one is like 6.8" (I chose it for other reasons and the size was a compromise); if I have the choice, I’d go for 6" at most.
I was gonna say, I personally love big phones for that reason. The puny ones are so hard to do anything on.
last year almost checked out a phone without jack at the carrier’s store, noticed on time, turned around and got a model with lower specs but had a jack
The Clicks Communicator BB clone looks to have a Jack. It’s in the running!!
Clicks Communicator BB clone
What I miss about Blackberry is the trackball. Touchscreens are fine for what they are, but the BB trackball allowed pixel-perfect precision pointing – it was worth it having to clean the lint out of it every so often.
I don’t miss the 16-bit graphics, though.
I feel like the only people who crave the physical keyboard on a phone are the ones that still refuse to use a Swype style keyboard on a touch screen.
When they were first released it was pretty good and now it’s basically perfect.
I have not had a physical keyboard since my palm pre died and have not felt the need to go back.
Swipe was great like 6 years ago. In the last five at least it’s been steadily getting worse, and it’s gotten significantly worse since they replaced whatever existing algorithm with their AI bullshit. Now my keyboard tries to put in slurs because the prediction is based on the internet. You delete them from the dictionary and they just pop right back up. It misspells commonly misspelled words now too.
You know that you can change keyboards right? Futo swipe texting works great.
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Close enough
Swipe gang rise up
Why use swype keyboards when you can use thumb-key ?
I mean, unless your hand are such that you can type using 10 fingers while holding your phone, using a typewriter machine’s keyboard (so that the branches don’t mix if you type too fast?) is a total non-sens!
Using a mixture of the suggestions, swipe, and thumb typing on a touch qwerty I can write faster than I could on a keyboard, it’s super easy. Even when I was practicing touch typing on a physical qwerty, my brain couldn’t manage more than average 40wpm I don’t think. Which is slow, if I remember. Much faster using a mixture of input styles depending on the word I am about to input. My mind pretty much instinctively knows which is gonna be the fastest method of the 3 at this point. I don’t think limiting one’s self to a single input style would make people like me any faster.
That looks interesting but I’m kinda turned off that it’s made by an authoritarian propagandist. And yes I know he made Lemmy too, and he’s also why so many instances block ml.
If yo prefer a non-free option, made by a profit oriented company, “message ease” offer a similar system…
Also, using a qwerty keyboard doesn’t force you to love neither Remington nor Mr Sholes…
Oh i know it’s a nonsense position to take and I’m probably gonna check out the keyboard anyway, I just don’t like that guy’s values.
I haven’t checked them, but I think I am banned from at least some .ml things ; I am not sure if I can still see them.
Honestly it’s because I never felt the need to change. Looks interesting though.
