• Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Top, so I can set the phone upright and the jack isn’t in the way.

    Really though, Bluetooth. I don’t think I’ve used wired headphones with my phone in the last year except for when I temporarily misplaced my Bluetooth buds.

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    Honestly it doesn’t really matter to me. Depending on whether it’s on the top or bottom I’ll just put my phone in my pocket to make it point upward when I use it. I tend to use Bluetooth anyway most of the time, so the headphone jack is mostly there as backup and for connecting other audio devices at parties etc.

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    I just want the phone to rotate correctly whichever way I choose is up. I want to be able to read ebooks and charge my phone without holding it up. /End rant

  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Bottom of the phone.

    I tend to mount my phone in my car and prefer if the jack is at the bottom.

      • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
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        11 months ago

        I prefer the USB port to be on the bottom, but very few phones (at least in the smartphone era) even tried to move the USB port. Headphone jacks were frequently on top. I like the USB port on the bottom in the center so it can sit on a stand with a cutout in the center (which are pretty common).

    • MrVilliam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’m using the Pixel 5a. Solid phone, low price, unlocked so it can move networks, virtual SIM ready, 5G capable, and it has a headphone jack. Mine is a few years old and still cruising along just fine. I think they were under $500 at launch, so don’t believe anybody’s bullshit about headphone jacks drastically raising costs.

      • frank@sopuli.xyz
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        11 months ago

        Same, and no clue what I’m doing after it. I love my headphone jack … Maybe an ASUS ROG?

      • Dempf@lemmy.zip
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        11 months ago

        Pixel 5a was great, but the units that are a couple years old are having major issues with the charging circuitry / motherboard. My phone bricked overnight while charging. It seems widespread enough right now that they’ve completely run out of refurbished stock of 5as and 6as to send out for replacements. I waited 6 weeks for an RMA with absolutely no updates – was about to just give up, buy a new phone, and take Google to small claims court. Finally got a replacement unit because the “social media team made an exception for me” after I tweeted them.

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      Reporting from Sony Xperia III 5 with a jack. My last 5 phones had a jack & OLED too.

  • all-knight-party@kbin.run
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    11 months ago

    Bottom. If I pull my phone out with the bottom facing up it’s a very easy transition to hold it up and use it. At the top I’ve got to flip the phone around when I take it out, and that’s an unforgivable sin of design. Only exaggerating a little

  • brokenlcd@feddit.it
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    11 months ago

    To be honest i’d prefer it to be there at all considering the current trend of removing it.

    But to answer your question, jack on top, so when the phone is plugged in the wall you can stay on the other side since the headphone cable wont be bent

    • spdrmx@beehaw.org
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      11 months ago

      I don’t think we can call it a trend anymore, shit hasn’t changed for a few years, not having an headphone jack is the norm and having one can now be a selling point for a phone

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    I don’t really care because I rotate my screen 180 degrees in landscape if it’s on the bottom and I’m using headphones

  • Zip2@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    On the back so it doesn’t get in the way.

    But seriously, neither. If I’m listening on my phone I’ll be out and about, and don’t want wires in the way. Bluetooth all the way.

    At home, via a decent DAC hooked up to a PC.

    • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Does it bother you that much if your phone has a headphone jack that you don’t use?

      Does it take away something from your experience? You always have the option of just… not using it.

      I always charge my phone wirelessly but I’m not gonna go and say I prefer a phone without a charging port. That would just be stupid.

      The only reason headphone Jacks got taken away was so you’d be forced to buy Bluetooth solutions. Like AirPods.

      • rainynight65@feddit.de
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        11 months ago

        The only reason headphone Jacks got taken away was so you’d be forced to buy Bluetooth solutions. Like AirPods.

        Totally. That’s why they never made adapters and never included cabled earphones with lightning plug. It was AirPods or nothing.

        • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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          11 months ago

          Wow. That’s nice of Apple. Just giving away these new adapters and lightning earphones. Huh? People had to BUY them? As in spend more money because their previous products no longer worked with their new phone?

          • rainynight65@feddit.de
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            11 months ago

            I have one Lightning-to-Jack adapter that was included with my old iPhone 8, and two pairs of EarPods with Lightning plug that were included with subsequent models.

            Besides that, the claim was that the headphone jack was removed to force people into buying AirPods. But that claim falls down when there clearly were other, non-Bluetooth options.

      • EasternLettuce@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        It actually does take away. Headphone jacks take up a comparatively huge amount of internal space that can be better spent elsewhere