Goodbye John! The 3.5mm audio input is about to be wiped off the card, and that’s it Created by Motorola and made fashionable by Apple, the bundle is already a reality for many terminals. According to the manufacturers, eliminating the headphone jack makes it easier for them to fit better hardware into our terminals, so we have to believe them.
Today I will tell you about my experiences life without a headphone jack. The truth is no It’s not so easy to get used to when they paintAnd sometimes it’s quite frustrating. If you have a plug on your phone, store it like gold in a piece of cloth because you don’t know what it hurts to lose it.
Get rid of the headphone jack, bad decision
First day, where is the adapter?
No doubt we’ve been used to plugging the headphone cable through the jack for years, it’s almost instinctive when we want to listen to music. For the first few days, you grab your headphones, put them in your pocket, and… oops! That’s right, I don’t have a jack! You’re not used to running with an adapterand you’ll go to the box to look for it, or in my case I’m a disaster, you’ll look all over the house for that little infernal device that goes from USB Type-C to your headphones.
Then you need to look for a reliable place to leave it. For iPhones, the wallet is a good place to keep this adapterbut in my case I couldn’t do that with the Google plus Pixel 2 XL. The adapter is ridiculously large, very large! I saved a small corner of a drawer for storing it anyway.
Hey, connect your phone! wait, it’s mine…
There are many gatherings of friends where music cannot be missing. In my case, All cell phones are welcome to my Chromecast, connected to the televisión and your audio device. However, 3.5mm output speakers are still more vibrant than everand it’s very frustrating that you cánido’t connect your phone.
The same goes for cars, but many of them have Bluetooth others have an auxiliary output, and my choice of jacket was not brand new for a thousand euros. In fact, I liked plugging it in the first few times, and until I had the cable in my hand I had no recollection of it I couldn’t connect it because I didn’t have that inputTester.
There is no improvement in the sound no matter how hard they try to sell us that
Some companies like Google plus are trying to convince us of this their dongles – USB Type-C to 3.5mm jack adapter, they improve the sound quality because the DAC is inside. Um, tell me more about Google plus. There is no improvement in sound quality, neither on Android nor on AppleConnecting my headphones is a breeze
In my case I use the Xiaomi Piston Hybrid, cheap headphones but of acceptable quality, and there is no difference in sound when used with the google plus dongle to use directly on the jack. On the one hand, that’s “good”, because at least I know that we won’t accept any loss of quality.
Problem for Bluetooth haters
Yes, I know that Bluetooth headphones exist and that the future is in a world without wires, but Why do I need to use them if I prefer the way my audio is wired?? Working in technology forces me to adapt to change, but I have to admit that I refuse to use Bluetooth headphonesIt’s something I avoid and will continue to avoid.
In this case I think the most useful alternative is Apple, that the box contains headphones with a Lightning output. Google plus, why don’t you give us Type-C headphones on your phone for €959?
Conclusions
no, I didn’t like the experience of not having a headphone jack at all. It does not have a single advantage, it is less convenient, it is easy to lose the adapter and it limits your everyday life.
It’s true that it’s not a drama, but it’s definitely a step backwards, as hardware improvements have not yet justified the removal of the jack. This and was my personal experience of living without this audio inputNow tell us what you think of this path and if you think that the logical evolution of the terminals goes through here.