I’ll go first: Silence Unknown Callers and Filter Unknown Senders on iPhone. No unwanted calls or texts. If someone really needs to reach me but isn’t in my contacts, they can just send a text - it goes into a separate list.
I’ll go first: Silence Unknown Callers and Filter Unknown Senders on iPhone. No unwanted calls or texts. If someone really needs to reach me but isn’t in my contacts, they can just send a text - it goes into a separate list.
For me, an audio jack is only important because I like listening to music and have high-quality wired headphones that I’ve been using for a long time. But yes, it’s true that the jack is definitely not essential for most people.
Yeah. I suppose you got a good quality USB-C DAC for them or do you just hang onto a phone model with a jack?
Yeah, for audiophiles this is actually a better situation now tbf
You can get inline USB-C DACs that are head and shoulders above the DACs that were used in 95% of smartphones out there. Or more frustratingly with Samsung, they used to (probably like 8-9 years ago now lol) include half decent DACs but configure them terribly which could only be fixed with custom ROMs, so I had to choose between shit audio or my banking apps.
Average Joe that doesn’t care about that just uses Bluetooth today anyway since you can get cheap Bluetooth headphones for about the same as cheap wired headphones (where the audio is going to be crap whatever you do). And of course there’s the cheap but passable inline DACs they used to include with phones that you can pick up for pretty cheap if you really want to use cheap wired headphones for whatever reason.
It was definitely annoying when they all just got rid of them, but at least now when I want to use my wired headphones on a device, I know it will actually sound good and isn’t down to what was the cheapest DAC they could get away with putting into the device itself.
I have a Sony Xperia 5 IV, which actually still has a headphone jack - and even a slot for an additional micro SD card (up to 1TB). It’s certainly not one of the smartphones with the best value, but I’m still quite happy with it, especially since I like the form factor.
I’ve eyed an Xperia every time I got a new phone but they are damn pricey.
Yes, in comparison, there is generally not much that speaks in favor of Sony phones. I was mainly interested in the form factor and am satisfied with that, but you can certainly get better devices for the price.