USB-C audio sucks: Bring back the headphone jack!

Gordon walks us through the differences between USB-C analog and digital based dongles/headphones - and rants about why it's a mess. Phone makers need to get their **** in order!

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[alanochoa]

Can this become a series called "Gordon's Gripes"

[BIOHAZARD_V]

Killing the 3.5mm jack is one of the most egregious examples of companies removing perfectly fine features in an attempt to be trendy or to sell more products. It's terrible.

[Venaloid]

Remember when these dongles were built into the phone? That was genius!

[burgundypoint]

Getting rid of the 3.5 headphone jack is a DOWNGRADE. Let's not fool ourselves.

[yuxia]

The round 3.5mm audio jack is the best port...because it’s not one-sided or reversible, it’s rounded...you plug in your headphones without even look at it...

[chenseanxy]

This is sooo true.. 3.5mm is already a world-wide standard and it works perfectly fine.

[amazingfabs]

They're removing them so that can sell us $250 Bluetooth headphones

[Venaloid]

Remember when headphones just worked AND didn't need to be recharged?

[dmonofchaos]

Samsung never removed it and they keep making this IP67, IP68 water resistant phones ...

[westsenkovec]

This shit we're dealing with is all Apples fault.
They couldn't make their products thinner so they had to eliminate things in order to sell an illusion.
In the end with all the dongles the device ends up being even bulkier.

[elahn_i]

A 3.5mm jack is a requirement for my mobile phone purchases. Period.

It’s 2022 and I’m still mad they took away my headphone jack.

[mmorales]

When you got companies like Samsung that can make an all-glass phone with every feature one can possibly think of, have an SD card slot, duo speakers, the best display in the business, wireless charging, fast charging, fingerprint scanner and well... You known what I mean. All that while being IP68 and still have the damned 3.5mm jack, there's no excuse to not have it on phones.

[gvfc]

If you buy a phone without the 3.5mm jack then you are the problem, not the companies. Don't support products that are broken by design.

[Rmf]

Great video!
3.5mm needs to return to phones!

[kayzphotography]

In a world that is well into wireless technology, they want us to carry more wires with dongles and adapters.

[tusharkakshapati]

This kind of issues are the important stuff tech channels should talk abt instead they act as a channel to feed us adds. Props to them for bringing this up.

[heye]

5 years later, you'd think companies would reverse this terrible tech trend. and yet here we are

these greedy corporations will have to pry the headphone jack from my cold, dead hands

[Slowdr]

Vote with your wallet people, don't buy phones that don't have a headphone jack

[gaganpreetxp]

Thumps up for lg and samsung for keeping the 3.5mm jack