Talk? I use it daily on all my devices

You'll have to pry my 3.5 mm jack and physical media from my cold, dead fingers.

I recently bought an MP3 player because I was so sick of Sonos fucking me around, messing with Bluetooth for a few minutes every time I wanted to play a song, losing or breaking my USBC to aux adaptors, no local storage for music, subscriptions, etc.

$100 and this thing has dual DAC chips, can be used as a desktop DAC, has a micro SD card slot, 3.5 AND 4.4mm aux output, and USBC rechargeable. (And Bluetooth but I'm not touching that.) It's genuinely so good that I'm thinking about dumping all "smart" crap and just going full Y2K with my tech.

If you look up "rugged phones" theres quite a large selection of chinese branded phones that have all the bells and whistles you can think of. Ulefone, 8849, Dogee are some of the brands. Ive owned an Ulefone Armor 26 and now an 8849 Tank 5. Both have been great on Tmobile in the US. Headphone jack, waterproof, IR blaster, 120w charging, 17,000mah battery, reverse charging, OLED screens, dual physical sim + esim. My Ulefone had a walkee talkee functionality and a massive speaker. My current Tank 5 has a 1080p projector built in.

Downsides is that you'd probably have some Chinese spyware or something, updates are few and far between and basically never any OS version upgrades so whatever version of android it ships with is what itll always be. Also it uses Mediatek processors instead of Snapdragon. So while good, they're not TOP of the line.

I don't have that problem on my wakman.

I still use 3.5mm auxiliary cables on a daily basis. Not phased out quite yet.

I refuse to buy a phone without a headphone jack. They already stole our IR blaster, I refuse to let them take more

last year almost checked out a phone without jack at the carrier's store, noticed on time, turned around and got a model with lower specs but had a jack

I can live without the headphone jack, no micro SD card is the bigger sin, limiting you to your phones built in storage for no reason other than pure greed is infuriating

I like both. wireless for the convenience, wired for the quality n latency. Imagine a guitar effects rack n all pedals are connected via bluetooth. Every note would have a 3-5 business day delay. BUT not having the option to choose is a real bummer.

I separated an extra pair of headphones for me and once I wanted to use them I noticed my phone has no headphone jack

I really prefer my wireless anyway. I used to go through a pair of headphobes every month, because the cables got fucked from being tangled in my pocket. Now I've had the same pair of buds for 5 years, with much better sound quality than what I had before

I genuinely don't understand the obsession. I don't miss having a cord on my headphones even a little bit.