man hey bro you have another pair of headphones my headphones just died yeah
hold on here you go what am I supposed to do with this supposed
to plug it in your phone my phone doesn't have a headphone jack well don't
you have the dongle no I left it at home huh that sucks let's get to it
hey what's up YouTube it's the hi-fi brothers yes and today we're gonna talk
about whether or not phones without headphone jack suck. So Armando why don't
you give us a brief background about the controversy several years ago actually a
lot of phone manufacturers in China started to create phones without
headphone jacks and being in the United States wasn't really a big deal to us at
the time but then the Apple iPhone 7 which came out in 2016
was the first phone where the headphone jack was gone that's right so this
started a huge controversy within the community a lot of people were just
outraged about this whole thing fast forward to 2019 and now all of a
sudden you have a lot of phone manufacturers across the world that are
eliminating the three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack
this is forcing people to either use the dongles that they come with if they have
existing headphones or just straight-up use bluetooth headphones I guess what we
want to talk about today is whether or not there actually is a positive of
having a phone without headphone jacks or if it's actually not even making a
difference. Armando tell me what are the pros of phones not having the
headphone jack you know right off the bat I mean if you have bluetooth
headphones I mean everybody knows how convenient those are it's one less wire
that you have to worry about that you have to plug in since we're on the go
and pretty much we're using wireless products on a daily basis you know
having bluetooth headphones are very convenient cuz you don't have to worry
about plugging a man there they they easily connect your phone once you get
them connected the first time having the ability of not having wires dangling
from you from your head all the way down to your pocket if that's where your
phone is definitely a plus another big thing too is with people that work out I
know if this was a huge problem for me in the past where you know I had earbuds
or yeah and you know with a wire all the way to my pocket and when I'm running or
working out sometimes the wire gets tangled and it becomes an inconvenience
at some point the other things that I've heard will make the phone
one two is waterproofing the waterproofing for the phones are
supposed to be better three is it makes room for other technology and bigger
displays at the end of the day right so I would say the biggest thing that I
could find is the fact that you just don't need to worry about a cable being
plugged in from your head all the way down to your phone where you know you're
probably keeping it in your pocket or just you know somewhere close to you you
can walk around the room with just headphones listen to music without
having to carry your phone so that's probably the biggest plus yeah that's
good I think that I've noticed like with Bluetooth is that yeah it's very
convenient especially like if you you know you're at the gym and you're
working on so I like that your your wire gets stuck on the top of a you know a
weight bar or something like that and is dragging along and your pet phones are
flying you know across the room you like oh my god you know alright I'm on those
so since we till we were talking about the pros what are the cons about not
having a 3.5 millimeter jack yeah that's good misses you know basically where the
controversial battles has begun well number one we talk about the sound
quality right nothing is ever going to be better than an actual wired solution
not saying that it's never gonna get better I think the technology is
definitely catching up the second I would say con is battery life yes right
yes so I have this issue all the time I have my bluetooth headphones on and
listen to music and all sudden my headphones saying all the battery's low
and I have to scramble to find they'll find a way to charge it and I can't
charge it it's dead and guess what now I have to look for the wire the wire
connected and unfortunately I have to find the dongle that the foams with so
now I have where I had a wired solution I now have two pieces of equipment that
I have to locate that's true and try to remember and hopefully I didn't lose yep
so that way can listen my music again yeah so when we went from an
inconvenience now we're going back to another inconvenience yeah I think it's
something to really keep in mind it's not having that option and now that you
know a lot of these phones are coming out with without three-and-a-half
millimeter jacks you have to use a dongle and that's one
more thing that you have to either keep on you at all times or just remember
where you're putting it I'm sure many of you out there have lost the dongle
already yeah where it's got damaged somehow and you have to go buy another
one so that's definitely a huge con I've I've noticed that like these newer HUD
phones um they have a carry on battery pack but then again you know sometimes
you forget to charge your battery and you know you say oh I'm down to one
percent like I got to go grab this you know a little battery pack and sit there
and charge it you know it's like okay like that to me is this I got it out of
the way you know bro we did a survey with our friends and family and on our
Instagram page about this topic what were the results just a quick plug in if
you're not following us on Instagram make sure you do it sad hi-5 brothers
but yeah we asked the same question about this topic and 80% of the people
from our community said that they preferred phones with headphone jacks
the rest of the people really either didn't care or don't miss them at all so
ah it just shows you that as consumers we're we're slowly adopting and
accepting the fact that a lot of these phone manufacturers have decided to
remove the three-and-a-half millimeter jack and I think what happened is you
know since 2016 when Apple had come out with the iPhone 7 which started
controversy I think three years later I think people are just the dad thing more
I say and it's kind of the topic of discussion is kind of diminished over
the year so this just goes to show you that you know phone companies are gonna
continue to make some bold moves and we might not be happy with the results but
at the end of the day it's we're just gonna adapt because that's what we do as
consumers hey bro so I recently just bought a phone the oneplus 7 pro okay
but it does not come with a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
what phone companies out there still have that 3.5 millimeter jack as far as
I know right now well major phone companies Samsung so their Galaxy S 10
still have a three-and-a-half millimeter jack on there that's
and LG so the the v40 which is actually I've wanted to get that phone I'm no I
haven't gotten it yet hopefully the v45 or the V 50 if it
comes out soon is probably my next phone just because it does have DAC on board
so how so far as an audiophile I mean that's that should be a dream phone for
anybody there which segues into the next topic discussion some of those pros I
brought up earlier where you know a lot of these phone companies remove the
three-and-a-half millimeter jack because of you know thinner phones bigger
screens better tech and waterproofing I looked into this more and believe it or
not those are all false oh really yeah oh wow
Samsung s10 is waterproof same as a lot of phones that don't have three and half
millimeter jack as far as thinner phones they're not much thinner no just because
a lot of them have a USBC connector on there with speakers so just because they
remove the three-and-a-half millimeter jack on there didn't really equate to a
thinner phone and the other thing is display size displays are the same
there's nothing that a phone that doesn't give you a three-and-a-half
millimeter jack versus one it does gives you more than the other I see so I think
what most phone companies are doing is they have decided to follow suit with
Apple and some of these other phone companies and we're moving the
three-and-a-half millimeter Jack because it's cheaper to manufacture the phone
and they're forcing consumers to not use three-and-a-half millimeter Jack City
more and they're just getting away with it controversial topic I know it's a
huge argument there but that's just my opinion that's what I feel is the reason
why phone companies are doing it which leads us to the conclusion right the
question I'm asking you is what's your preference do you actually have
preference with the with the phone be honest now don't get me wrong I have a
Bluetooth headset or writing it works pretty good you know especially like
when I'm at the gym I don't have to worry about my
running through my you know my shirt and down to my pants give or take I mean I'm
just kind of like up on the air right now I know the codecs are getting a lot
better you know with bluetooth but the way I feel we have to decide okay what's
best for my ears mm-hmm you know what I mean so that's that's right that's where
I see it I would say for me I I miss having a headphone jack on my phone I I
have I have a phone that doesn't have it and I'm really thinking about getting
one of those phones that I mentioned one of those LG or one of those Samsung just
the fact that it has a three-and-a-half millimeter jack I'm gonna be sad that
day that there's really no option all right well that pretty much concludes
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three years later after the fact but as always keep it high five
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