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‎10-09-2022 10:30 PM in
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‎10-10-2022 04:47 PM (Last edited ‎10-10-2022 04:50 PM ) in
Galaxy S21Tldr is that 3.5 (and VR) on phones is dead and you shouldn't hold your breath for them to come back. The engineers have claimed the space and the marketers love that they can sell you Bluetooth headphones.
1) buy more recent Bluetooth headphones. I would strongly recommend that you don't get anything older than the buds live, and look at refurbished! Good as new for a quarter the cost.
2) purchase braided USBC headphones. Braided cables are significantly stronger, and because it's going to be the standard option going forward (just you wait, they're coming for laptop 3.5mm ports too) it would be wise to invest in a good pair of USBC cans.
3) get an adaptor or a USBC to 3.5mm DAC. This way you can use any 3.5mms you may have laying around and while the basic adaptor won't get you back any sound quality (might be worse even), even a cheap DAC will get you better sound quality than any built in headphone jack on a phone ever could, and you can always plug it in to other devices.
Secret option number 4) purchase literally any Sony device on the market because every phone they make still has a headphone jack, a dedicated camera button that I believe can be reprogrammed, and they have a few phones out there with 4K. We don't talk about Sony around these parts though 😉
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‎10-09-2022 11:49 PM in
Galaxy S21If you still prefer wired earbuds and it's 'better' sound quality. You can still use usbc earbuds.
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‎10-10-2022 01:19 AM in
Galaxy S21Obviously I dont use bixby. I use the button.
You certainly dont know what your talking about but you made some interesting ideas. Maybe I should just use my type c akg ear phones even though I checked on my s8 and clearly the noise coming out of the jack is louder and sounds better on my akg jacked headphones of the same type.
My s21 plus dose not have a removeable back. My type c port is not going to magicaly fly off and get replaced once its worn. Maybe if samsung had two type c ports on there phones type c audio would not be such a bad idea. My s8 can barely stay connected to my computer long enough to tranfer files by wire if it does not move. How is that going to work for my new phone that is showing signs its type c port is getting worn. Maybe not being able to charge a phone is just such a funny idea that the next upgrade will be getting rid of the type c port. We will have to cary the wireless charging pad around with us to charge and use it at the same time.
But sure. To someone who dose not use their cheaply made high price name brand products at least until they break, having a legacy standard to use old audio devices that have not broken yet seems like madness. Who would ever want to use something that will not break.
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‎10-10-2022 04:47 PM (Last edited ‎10-10-2022 04:50 PM ) in
Galaxy S21Tldr is that 3.5 (and VR) on phones is dead and you shouldn't hold your breath for them to come back. The engineers have claimed the space and the marketers love that they can sell you Bluetooth headphones.
1) buy more recent Bluetooth headphones. I would strongly recommend that you don't get anything older than the buds live, and look at refurbished! Good as new for a quarter the cost.
2) purchase braided USBC headphones. Braided cables are significantly stronger, and because it's going to be the standard option going forward (just you wait, they're coming for laptop 3.5mm ports too) it would be wise to invest in a good pair of USBC cans.
3) get an adaptor or a USBC to 3.5mm DAC. This way you can use any 3.5mms you may have laying around and while the basic adaptor won't get you back any sound quality (might be worse even), even a cheap DAC will get you better sound quality than any built in headphone jack on a phone ever could, and you can always plug it in to other devices.
Secret option number 4) purchase literally any Sony device on the market because every phone they make still has a headphone jack, a dedicated camera button that I believe can be reprogrammed, and they have a few phones out there with 4K. We don't talk about Sony around these parts though 😉
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‎10-11-2022 11:01 AM (Last edited ‎10-11-2022 11:03 AM ) in
Galaxy S21Thanks for the advice. I really just hate getting usb c because its so much more expensive for the tiniest piece of metal that dose the same job. With vr on phones I was only really annoyed at the screen resolution because with rift cat and controller 4 vr I heard vr was totally doable. I think most of my cabels are braided. They never add that bendy rubber/plastic piece that keeps it from flexing off right at the port so I have to solve that each time. My laptop probably has a lot of years left in it but I do use a dac because its 3.5mm port seems a bit worn and I really like the sound. I do hope the usb port will last as long as the laptop. It also has usb c so I can see them trying. Funnily enough after useing the dac now I wish my computer had a 6.3mm jack because that thing looks like it will last forever and there was totally room for them to fit one in my laptop.
I am probably going to get a note 9 as an entertainment phone and carry around two phones. I just dont like the idea of getting something old even though it is equivalent of samsungs new mid range. I wish they would bring it back every 10 years or so with simple hardware spec upgrades.
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‎10-10-2022 06:13 AM (Last edited ‎10-10-2022 06:20 AM ) in
Galaxy S21A lot of people complained about the Bixby button (and Bixby itself), so it too was removed awhile ago.
It's weird that people will spend a couple of hundred dollars, or more, on a phone and not do their research before buying it, then come here to complain.
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‎10-10-2022 07:32 AM in
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