Yeah, my current bluetooth headset has that option, and i keep a cable in reserve. the ones i had to replace were mostly in my teens/tweens, and were still cabled in-ear style - easier to hide under clothes and hair, but also no cable replacing if you don't know much about how to solder. TBH, if i had to decide i would not go back to cabled headphones at all - it's simply too limiting and irritating to deal with, especially with multiple audio sources. When listening to music the latency is not important (and has improved a lot in comparison to the humble start), and it's been a while since i had phones which had sound quality issues because of bluetooth.

Are we forgetting that companies also have their own bias to make the decisions that increase overall profits? They lost buyers (me included) by this change, but they made up the difference by selling higher margin accessories. Companies will only cater to users if it aligns with turning a bigger profit. If adding an anti-feature is better for the bottom line, then that's how it goes. Enshittification doesn't happen accidentally, but by pushing the boundaries of what the users tolerate.

This this this.

They want to sell their buds and headset.

don't misunderstand me, those are great repairable bluetooth devices, but if i were to not have a headphone jack and just a "long lasting repairable phone" , i'm sticking to my Google pixel.

I understand all of that and I agree with you. Not wanting to pay monthly storage fees is perfectly reasonable too. I know I did everything to avoid giving Google any money for storage.

But microSD slots on phones aren't coming back, and manufacturers are giving you 512GB of internal storage at most, so we need to move on with the times.

I don't have a home server (yet) either, but I do have 2 TB disks I use to store all the important stuff I want to save forever. Nothing lives on my phone so I'm fine with 128GB.

Local syncing can be done just by installing Syncthing or Omnisend, and everything gets transferred through your home Wi-Fi. No need for complicated setups. I mentioned home servers as an example but you certainly don't need one.

MicroSD cards also die so I don't know why you used that as a slight against internal phone storage. You should always have backups.

Storage is dirt cheap these days, it makes no sense to hinder yourself buying niche phones, often at inflated prices, just for a feature that is easily worked around. In my opinion.

They want to sell their buds and headset.

Not sure if it still is that way, but when i bought my FP4 years ago, free buds were included.

I wish I could ditch stock android but my business bank app refuses to run on e/os and I assume I'd have the same problem with graphene.

e/os was otherwise soo much better, and the increase in performance and battery life was huge.

how many people care about the source of the materials?

the 3.5mm jack still exists on low to mid-range phones, the high end ones were the only ones that removed it and then mid-range phones copied it.

Maybe phones shouldn't have multiple cameras if they aren't actually usable

how else are you supposed to connect it to cars that weren't made yesterday?

The transfer speed over USB on mine probably doesn't even pass USB 2 speeds anyway and I've had flagship phones in the past that were even slower over a cable. I guess if that's still the case then there's probably a good engineering argument to reduce complexity.

Maybe you shouldn't buy a phone if you want a "usable" camera.

And you shouldn't buy a camera either as you don't seem to understand those either.

I doubt it's some conspiracy, but it does still suck. I'm on my 3rd USB port on my fp4 because I use wired earphones. Replaceable USB port was my initial reason for buying a fair phone otherwise I'd likely be buying a new phone every year.

USB C is not up to that kind of use, and BT ear buds suck...

Just get a cheap usb c -> 3.5mm adapter. Problem solved.

Bluetooth audio is good enough when you’re comparing it to phone headphone jacks. Phones aren’t audiophile devices. No one is going to notice the difference in sound.

A 3.5mm jack adapter is as unintrusive as can be - it just stays on your headphone cable.

a camera should save the raw data from the sensor to a file along with potentially metadata, there is no reason for it to "enhance" the photo or video, compression only makes sense for posting online or video

Yeah no one should trust IP ratings on phones because unless they cover water damage in their warranty - which none do - the company doesn’t even trust their own IP rating.

I always shake my head when I read about people taking their phones in the shower, in the pool, etc. IP ratings degrade over time as well.

Tell that you every single digital camera. Very few output RAW by default, many don't even offer that option. This isn't a "phone cameras" issue.

The fact that you think post process is compression says a lot, or that there's no reason to apply post process when 99.9% of the population don't even know what RAW is and won't benefit from it.

Again, you want a proper camera, buy a proper camera. But learn a bit before

You will need to add on the price for a new battery replacement on a 3 year old Sammy lol

First of all no, i dont want to carry a dongle as i may plug in multiple headsets.

Second of all, i want to charge my phone while listening to music, and i want even less to carry a doubling d'ongle

Third of all, i fail to see the "eco responsible" part of needing to buy more things than nécessary, then wearing down needlessly the usb-c over time.

So, with all due respect, piss off

PS : you're the same kind of person who said "don't want a phone without headphone jack? Only buy one that has one instead of complaining" when apple started the trend, and guess what mfers, i'm never stopping complaining