True wireless earbuds don't necessarily have to end up as electronic waste when their batteries reach the end of their lifespan. Fairphone demonstrates this with the Fairbuds 2, whose batteries can be easily replaced. The earbuds also offer active noise cancellation and support for Sony LDAC.
I used to share this opinion but grew out of it tbh.
From an engineering perspective headphone jacks are: a) a huge waste of space for no real functionality as the function is integrated in USB-C or lightning.
b) an unnecessary weak point in water- and dustproofing.
If you need an audio jack, specialised models still have it or a dedicated android audio player (fiio make great ones) will serve you better.
I say this as an audiophile btw.
I wouldn’t miss the audio jack, if phones had two usb-c ports, one for charging and one for audio. But all adapter I tried that allowed charging the phone while listening to audio where very flimsy and/or unhandy.
I just would like not every device to have is own built-in or custom battery. Them being changeable is good, but I would also love if we start having a smaller set of standardized formats.
There were water- and dustproofed jacks.
There are, but they’re even more bulky, and they are waterproof in the sense that the water wouldn’t damage the device, but the port itself is still vulnerable, and very much so. Unless it has a flap, but no regular phone used that ever.
I’m OK with flaps.
That’s what she said.