• thejoker954@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I just want the option. Sure I use bluetooth 98% of the time, but when I’m in a car I’d rather hook in through the jack than the tooth. And when I’m out hiking I also like the jack option so I don’t have to worry about my blutooth battery dying, bluetooth draining my phone faster, loosing an earbud in the leaves and so on.

    • BorgDrone@feddit.nl
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      16 hours ago

      bluetooth draining my phone faster

      Bluetooth was specifically designed to be very low power. With a bluetooth headphone there is a battery in the headphone to power the amplifier and provide the energy to move the speaker diaphragm. With passive (wired) headphones, this has to be powered by your phone.

      Do you really think that a phone that has to directly drive the speakers in a headphone uses less power than a phone that only has to power the bluetooth transmitter?

      I love wired headphones, but I wouldn’t ever drive them directly from my phone. Especially higher end headphones are more difficult to drive anyway, so I use a (wired) external DAC/amp with it’s own internal battery for using my wired headphones.

    • Redex@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      I mean, I get that. It’s just that I’m triggered by the amount of people that constantly comment on every thread raging about how dare they not include a headphone jack. It’s insane how loud this minority is when in real life very few people actually care about it.