Another one bites the dust. OnePlus to remove headphone jack from 6T

D13H4RD · September 18, 2018

7 hours ago, JoostinOnline said:

Because it's more like an iPhone. I know it sounds stupid, and that's because it is. Practical customers will definitely be driven off, but it also attracts the people who don't like wired headphones and like Apple clones.

Except then it’ll be like most of the Chinese phones out there. They even have a software UX that really resembles the iPhone. Heck. that’s what the Oppo/Vivo phone that the OP6T is based off of basically is.

Sure, you could say the P20 Pro sold well, but that phone had a unique selling point; Its cameras. What does the OnePlus have? Fast performance? A clean build of Android? OnePlus could have taken the opportunity and build a unique selling point like putting in a beefy DAC and amp combo and basically making what’s like a ZTE Axon 7 but with the marketing muscle of OnePlus, it could actually be successful. But they decided to follow trends rather than bucking them. Much like how Huawei cheated on benchmarks because everyone else in China did it.

I just don’t understand what they gained from removing it aside from a few millimeters of extra space. Samsung had headphone jacks on their phones up until now and they didn’t have much of an issue selling. Sure, the S9 wasn’t exactly the best selling phone they had but it wasn’t at all because it had a jack.

YamiYukiSenpai · September 18, 2018

I thought OnePlus was supposed to be listening to consumer feedback

And besides, what's one positive with removing the headphone jack? You cannot charge and play anymore, unless you buy a dongle that'll let you do that. But I haven't found a dongle that'll also capable of letting the phone use it's fast-charging capabilities.