Yes, but they require to add an adaptator to charge the device while you use the headphone. So a good old jack would make the device better.

Should I choose between two devices and the only difference would be that one has the 3.5 jack, and the other doesn't ; I would take the one with the jack...

I feel like the only people who crave the physical keyboard on a phone are the ones that still refuse to use a Swype style keyboard on a touch screen.

When they were first released it was pretty good and now it's basically perfect.

I have not had a physical keyboard since my palm pre died and have not felt the need to go back.

Clicks Communicator BB clone

What I miss about Blackberry is the trackball. Touchscreens are fine for what they are, but the BB trackball allowed pixel-perfect precision pointing -- it was worth it having to clean the lint out of it every so often.

I don't miss the 16-bit graphics, though.

I also had what appeared be too much storage.

Then I got 2 cats.

Now it says 99% full.

I have broken 4 micro SDs in the last 2 years. Thsnkfully, "broken" means set to read-only mods, so i could recover it. But yeah. I use it a lot.

Doesn’t matter if you don’t have a use for larger hot swappable storage, many others do, otherwise all these phone companies wouldn’t sell higher storage models for absurdly high markup

Some people actually take pictures and videos. Or if you're a phone gamer, some games will take up over 20 gigs themselves. .... But good for you?

lol what are you talking about considering Android is the only mobile OS that even lets you access the file system unlike apple

Yep. I have .flacs .wav etc. Plays em all. They call em DAPs (Digital audio players) now instead of MP3 player because they can play most music formats.

Fiio Echo

Yeah I have first gen Sonos. I heard they had bricked em before my app upgraded and I disconnected them from the internet before they got to mine. They've just been offline since, only used on the tv.

The more premium models from Fiio are all touch screen with Android. I specifically didn't want Android and they were out of my budget anyways. HiBy comes recommended too from the research I did and I think they are all touch screen with Android as well.

Graphene on that phone?

Not sold in Australia. I've had that issue a lot with smart phones over the years. The one time I bought one from a different retailer I spent $2k on the damn thing and the stock phone case shattered the glass body fresh out the box, and it stopped charging after 6 months. Asus refused to service it because it wasn't covered by warranty in Australia, completely ignoring Australian consumer protection laws. Nothing came of my legal complaint either, they just took the fine they received. Never buying Asus again, or a model that isn't covered in Australia.

That might be an open source model, but it's definitely not the premium option.

There are some very expensive models out there. Astell & Kern for one, even the brand I got my $100 DAP from has a model that's a few thousand dollars

Wouldn't need it if I could buy a phone with a jack and SD card slot. This is the problem smart phones were supposed to solve

Yeah, but people play games on their phones, and video syncing to wireless earphone latency, is extra software that the app has to work around.

And all this, because some industry leaders want to extort you for 50 extra bucks for headphones, instead of putting the 0.70 cents jack on your phone.

The point, is the senselessness of the inconvenience the customer goes through, not how big or small the inconvenience is.

It's proof the designer doesn't have your interest in mind, and will take active steps to make your life worse, big or small, if they can get 10 more bucks out of you that way.

I've own 3 Moto Gs. They are good budget bricks. But they do not age well as far as software goes.

Lots of Chinese phones definitely do IR blaster, dual SIM and SD card. I don't think the headphone jack is as common since it steals a lot of room for something that most people actually do not use or want.

Hi mate, both Sony devices were fairly clear of bullshit software, but I used ADB to remove Facebook etc. Compared to Samsung Galaxy Tablet of the same year, the Sony is a clean dream. All my music is on the microSD card (almost all FLAC). Internal DAC is good too.

Yeah me too, but I didn't notice the hdr thing, I also don't watch much on my phone as a main screen for anything visually interesting.

Yeah me, lol. Phones are still too big.

As someone with hands on the bigger side I still find today's phones too big. My current one is like 6.8" (I chose it for other reasons and the size was a compromise); if I have the choice, I'd go for 6" at most.

I was gonna say, I personally love big phones for that reason. The puny ones are so hard to do anything on.