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HTC codename Bolt (Next flagship) leaked with no Audio jack!

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2 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

? I don't get it. How did that relate to Microsoft or the topic or anything?

Because you cannot berate consumers in one thread for "causing sales to decline and not helping the industry to survive", or wanting to keep using their older hardware, and then complain when another company does it to you.

That's just pure hipocrisy.

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25 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

But what about my expensive audiophile quality headphones?

If they're really audiophile grade you should probably be using an amp anyway

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9 minutes ago, Jovidah said:

Because you cannot berate consumers in one thread for "causing sales to decline and not helping the industry to survive", or wanting to keep using their older hardware, and then complain when another company does it to you.

That's just pure hipocrisy.

This isn't a software issue. This is hardware, This is a basic fundamental piece of the user experience.

Judge a product on its own merits AND the company that made it.

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IDK how you define sexy as hell but that phone sure ain't looking like one to me..

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Just now, potoooooooo said:

If they're really audiophile grade you should probably be using an amp anyway

The Audiophile grade stuff I mentioned? That's from Sennheiser's marketing :D. They're technically audiophile grade but I love them. I'm too poor to afford a DAC or an AMP.

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8 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

This isn't a software issue. This is hardware, This is a basic fundamental piece of the user experience.

And software isn't?

 

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its gonna be like micro sd all over again

 

they will try to ignore it but then it will just come back

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2 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

But what about my expensive audiophile quality headphones?

Just use them with an audiophile quality music player.  They're mostly wasted on a mere phone. 

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meanwhile the V20 can drive high impedance headphones

 

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2 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

TRIGGERED

 

[Insert massive rant here]

 

FFS. Please Jesus. I have $150 USD Sennheiser Headphones. Not cheap garbage. It's not easy for me to buy new $150 USB-C headphones and why should I?

You dont, if you dont buy the phone. 

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3 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

But what about my expensive audiophile quality headphones?

You can always use it on your PC.........

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3 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

But what about my expensive audiophile quality headphones?

If 150$ headphones are "expensive audiophile quality", I'd really like to know what you would call the 1100€ AMP/DAC&headphone combo (by Stax) a fellow student of mine bought recently ...

 

In addition, in an audiophile friendly environment there's no phone present in the first place, so why even bother ...

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3 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

TRIGGERED

 

[Insert massive rant here]

 

FFS. Please Jesus. I have $150 USD Sennheiser Headphones. Not cheap garbage. It's not easy for me to buy new $150 USB-C headphones and why should I?

Same here, i've got beyerdynamics, AKGs and sennheisers.... no way i'm dealing with this bs. If there's not a headphone jack I'll just buy a phone that has one.

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3 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

TRIGGERED

 

[Insert massive rant here]

 

FFS. Please Jesus. I have $150 USD Sennheiser Headphones. Not cheap garbage. It's not easy for me to buy new $150 USB-C headphones and why should I?

I mean there is adapters, but still, the headphone jack shouldn't be dying yet.

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My hope is that people will simply ignore any device stupid enough to not have the port (assuming they are someone who ever used it, which admittedly isn't everyone, but, come on) but I fear that will not happen.  @themctipers can attest to what I've seen going on in pro-apple circles where person after person have been "upgrading" to the iPhone 7, seemingly for no reason... it's like their just mindless drones buying it and not even knowing why or really wanting to.  I suspect that behaviour will spread, and my dream of the forces of evolution and capitalism making stupid phones like this die out will die out instead.

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You know i was pissed that the new Pixel was 650+ but now its looking like im just going to have to pay a premium to have 2 fucking ports on my phone. I wouldnt even care as much if it was 2 USB-C ports because at least i can charge and listen to music.

 

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4 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

TRIGGERED

 

[Insert massive rant here]

 

FFS. Please Jesus. I have $150 USD Sennheiser Headphones. Not cheap garbage. It's not easy for me to buy new $150 USB-C headphones and why should I?

USB-Type-C-Adapter-to-3-5mm-Earphone-Hea

Just keep it attached to your headphone cables,  problem solved.

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4 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

BUT WHY SHOULD I? There is no justifiable reason why I can't use my nice headphones without an Adapter.

Same. Not that I was tremendously interested but this definitely is a big no no.

The majority would never care nor need any real advantage the 3.5mm jack brings to the table in terms of audio quality.

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33 minutes ago, tsk said:

USB-Type-C-Adapter-to-3-5mm-Earphone-Hea

Just keep it attached to your headphone cables,  problem solved.

But that'd be another thing to carry around. Besides, who wants to use an adapter with their phone?!

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1 hour ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

My hope is that people will simply ignore any device stupid enough to not have the port (assuming they are someone who ever used it, which admittedly isn't everyone, but, come on) but I fear that will not happen.  @themctipers can attest to what I've seen going on in pro-apple circles where person after person have been "upgrading" to the iPhone 7, seemingly for no reason... it's like their just mindless drones buying it and not even knowing why or really wanting to.  I suspect that behaviour will spread, and my dream of the forces of evolution and capitalism making stupid phones like this die out will die out instead.

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What am I missing here? There are no pictures to support this?

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7 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

Funny you should mention LG. I have an article coming up within a few minutes about their next phone...

So... what's the deal with it? :P

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1 hour ago, Sampsy said:

I'm all up for moving audio to UCB-C - but a much better way of doing it than suddenly dropping the existing audio jack is to begin supporting audio over usb-c now, phasing out the old connector over a few years to give people time to upgrade. 

But why? Is there something wrong with the 3.5mm jack? 

 

Before you type stuff, remember: an old connector does not mean a bad one.

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*eye twitch*

 

i hope it is a matter of the jack being on the top of the phone or something

also, whats with all the mic holes on the back?

 

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Is this supposed to be a midranger? Because theres loads of phones with superior specs at a similar price...

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