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They didn’t build it just for you though.
Well that's just poor customer service from them then
What’s the benefit of not having the socket?
Genuinely interested, not being arsey.
Size / space constraints, you can't put a 3.5mm jack in something the thickness of a cheese slice. Same reason you have a nano SIM rather than one the size of a credit card.
Current phone cost £320
Current bike cost £2000
My logic
I have lost or destroyed every phone i've ever owned. This is a huge issue for me
My previous FS bike did 10 years
Many important memories and bits of my life are associated with my bikes
I've never looked back and thought "that trip to the lakes last year was great, the way i could effortlessly swap between Apps and scroll was fantastic. I've never been at work on a Monday thinking "wow i'm still buzzing from yesterday's phone use"
But your life isn't my life and i still wish my camera didn't oversharpen the images quite as much
Size / space constraints, you can’t put a 3.5mm jack in something the thickness of a cheese slice. Same reason you have a nano SIM rather than one the size of a credit card.
and waterproofing supposedly.
It'S hard to deny that a hole will make it harder to waterproof a phone
But i'm glad to have a head phone jack
Just easier without a connector. It will be soldered to the pcb, which needs to line up which the hole in the case. Not fitting it is one less thing to get right.
Xiaomi you say....
Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
Well I'm always on the lookout for what Lithuanian cyber-security have to say, and the next time I use the Chinese characters for 'Free Tibet' I could be in big trouble.
I think you can put 'contains technology that could be used to censor' in the same section as 'developed a special censored search engine for China that they won't rule out finishing some time' (Google).
Meanwhile you're probably all happily using your Alexa and Google home devices that 'accidentally' record stuff and upload it to their servers. But yeah... China bad.
My current phone - 11Pro 256 cost £790 2 years ago (ebay within a few months of launch) it's still worth £450 now. My sim costs £6 a month. Total cost of ownership for a top of the range phone £500 or £20 a month. For a 1st rate camera, GPS, phone, video camera and music player + data, calls...how can this be bad value? Also, after 2 years of use, the maximum battery capacity is still above 96% and NOTHING has gone wrong with it despite being ejected from a jersey pocket at over 30kph onto the road. In fact, I've owned every model of iphone except the 12 and the SEs in some guise and I've only had one problem with a power button in all those phones and that they fixed free of charge outside of warranty.
I'll be buying a 13pro 256 as soon as I can get one under £800.
My iPhone is a 512Gb model, (11Pro Max), and I’ve been using cloud backup for photos for years, I’ve got something on the order of 27,000 photos online, with 2Tb of iCloud storage. Music-wise, I had about 150Gb of music that I’d ripped into iTunes and put onto my phone, but decided to check out Apple Music, which I get included in my Cloud package, and I’m now recklessly downloading onto my phone loads of music that I’d always wanted to check out, so I’ve now got 255.25 Gb of music on it*. There are certainly issues involved with just adding tracks and relying on streaming, because I’ve found quite a few instances where music I’d just added to my library would stop playing as I was driving, even as I’m just walking around, because there isn’t enough bandwidth for the music to keep streaming; I did have an issue with music I’d ripped then tried putting onto the phone, but once you’ve signed to Apple Music that doesn’t work - you will lose the library if you sign off, but it will come back, but only streamed, any actual downloads onto the phone have to be done again.
I’m looking forward to upgrading to an iPhone 14, which is when my contract comes to an end, and getting 1Tb of storage… 😁
*Currently I’m using 353.7Gb of storage - 255.25 music, 30.78Gb UK Map, 4.4Gb photos, 3.35Gb ViewRanger, 1.88Gb TomTom Go, and 1.06Gb Books, plus sundry other apps.
Don’t forget none of the newer iPhones or top Galaxy models have a headphone socket
True but there are cheap adapters for iPhones and Androids which allow using headphones and aux cables. Also available with power if needed. And yes, it is step backwards but not a show stopper.
But i’m glad to have a head phone jack
I’ve got a load of different headphones, most of them using a 3.5mm Jack, and I’ve never had an issue using any of them. Just as headphones have been supplied with an adapter for decades to allow use with either a 1/4” or 3.5mm socket, there are plenty of cheap adapters available to allow a 3.5mm Jack to be used with a Lightning socket. This has two benefits - 1) the adapter acts as a flexible joint and relieves the stress on the headphone plug, and 2) it’s also a d/a converter, so you actually get better quality sound. It’s even better if you have headphones with replaceable cables - I have a pair of Taotronics SoundSurge headphones, which are BT, but have a 3.5mm socket, like the s****y Sony ‘phones. Unlike some others, (Apple AirPods Max, B&M P9), the ‘phones will work passively using the cable, and I’ve got a 3.5mm > Lightning cable with remote, cost about £10, that works beautifully, allows phone calls n’all.
I’ve also got several sets of IEM’s, Ultimate Ears and MeeAudio, which use 2-Pin and MMCX connections to allow the cables to be replaced or swapped, and I found a company online which makes replacement cables with those connectors and with Lightning and USB-C plugs, with remote, for around $25, and they do make a significant difference to the sound quality.
Frankly, I’m really glad to see the back of the 3.5mm socket, it’s not needed, legacy headphones and earphones can be easily and cheaply adapted to work happily with the Lightning connection, the only ones complaining are those too sodding lazy to look for suitable adaptors or cables.
Or snivelling about having to use a dongle. It’s not a ******* DONGLE! A dongle is a device that allows the use of locked or licenced software to be used on a computer by legitimate users! You use an adapter to adapt one plug to another socket, which people have been happily doing for decades.
Just get a usb hard drive?
It looks like my choice has been made for me. I would have stuck with Samsung if i'd been able to get the 512gb S21 Ultra, but 3 (current network), EE and O2 don't offer it. Only 128gb or 256gb. A possible option would have been the top spec Galaxy Note 20 but having had a Note previously they just feel too big in the hand. So Apple it is. 3.5mm to lightening cable for in car use is easy to get as is an adapter for when I want to use my Sennheiser headphones in wired guise rather than Bluetooth. I've been informed that Google maps works perfectly well on iPhone and I'll do some research on what music player gives the best/most customisable experience for iOS.
I bought a cheap Sony Xperia and feature wise it's great but it freezes regularly. I can't be bothered to swap.
Well the order has been placed. IPhone 13 Pro Max 1Tb should be here around 20th Oct.... about the same time as my new frame and fork. Exciting month ahead of me 😃