I know these DACs are awesome. But I really like the option to plug directly into the phone. Especially since the only reason not to have that is so that Apple and Samsung can sell you crappy, overpriced Bluetooth buds.

I always tried to avoid Samsung because of the amount of crapware pre-installed. Are the rugged versions better in this regard?

Only the Teracube seems to have a headphone jack, and as far as I can tell the Volla X23 would be the better option in every category.

That one looks amazing, thank you! Not sure I can hold out until December though.

Well to be fair, it’s mostly flac. Which isn’t exactly reasonable to have on a phone, but it serves as an extra backup.
And I see no reason why a new phone can’t do something my nearly a decade old phone could do.

Filtering to Android models that came out in 2025 yields 250 results.

Are you referring to the headphone jack or the sd card slot? Because geizhals.de shows 144 models having both running Android 15, ranging from 1500€ to under 100€ in price. Looks like plenty of options to me.

Beyond not wanting to carry a converter around, this is a matter of principle for me.

It’s my music library, but yes.

While that phone is probably the most interesting one I have seen so far, I doubt I would be happy with it.

Then the Motorola goes to the bottom of the list. Thank you

I doubt the added hassle of importing will be worth it. Those model numbers are really confusing. What would be the difference between the moto g56 5G that is available in the EU and the moto g stylus - 2025 that is available on the US site? The US site just says “Snapdragon® 6 Gen 3 Mobile Platform” for CPU which means absolutely nothing to me.

That goes on the short list. Thank you!

But sadly no SD-card, that’s a no-go with a paltry 128GB of storage. The XR20 does have an SD-card slot, but is 4 years old by now.

How about serving a proper HTML that contains the data they want to display? Instead of an empty page that tries to load the data via JavaScript.

What the fuck are you talking about? No one in here said scarcity has no effect.

But no amount of abundance will bring the price below whatever material + labour cost. But arguing with you is pointless, you seem to be intent on missing the point.

Sounds like you have no idea what you are talking about. No amount of supply will bring down raw material and labour costs.

You mean building codes that would hike the price to levels immigrants can’t afford? You could of course build social housing like a developed country but good luck doing that while republicans hold any kind of power. And even if you manage to get that done the amount of housing you can build is limited by the amount of money you are willing to invest into social housing.

Typically these quickly built housing is of such crappy quality that only immigrants will want to live there (because they can’t afford anything else anyway). This leads to the development of ghettos, with leads to the typical problems from crappy schools (that traps the kids in the lowest social class) to no cultural assimilation.

I don’t know what we are doing, but anon listed recent games ¯_(ツ)_/¯

(Although it irritates me to no end when people say “Baldurs Gate” while talking about BG3)