We asked if you adopted Bluetooth wireless headsets or a wired-with-a-dongle experience. It wasn’t alike close.
This anniversary we capital to apperceive about your preferences in a headphone-jack-less world. Would you accomplish do with a active ‘solution’ via a dongle and your charging port, or do you adopt Bluetooth headphones?
Let’s accumulate allocution of the headphone jack abbreviate and sweet: best of us prefer a phone that has one. That’s a given, we apperceive all about it, and it’s ok. We adulation you too headphone jack.
Now, if our phone doesn’t accept a headphone jack, we at atomic appetite an included dongle (memo to HTC). Still Bluetooth headsets accept appear a continued way and are about appealing accessible to use. Shout out to our colleagues at SoundGuys who do their best to explain to you which headsets will clothing you, anniversary in anniversary out, active or unwired.
But Bluetooth accessories artlessly allegation charging, so if you’re not acutely active you ability be bent abbreviate – never acceptable if your angle cuts out aboriginal on during a continued flight or car trip. Then there’s the affair of audio delays, which can be annihilation if you allegation to be on a appointment call. And the Bluetooth operating abundance at 2.44 GHz can beggarly operating in a awash environment, administration bottleneck with Wi-Fi signals in a active city. Oh, and if you blooper your phone in your pocket, you may lose some arresting affection as able-bodied as your anatomy absorbs the arresting absolutely well. Relying abandoned on Bluetooth aloof doesn’t consistently work.
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Each of these is a baby little downside alone, and there are some solutions. But they add them up – and speaking of abacus up, abundant cans are not bargain either, so you’ll appetite to do your analysis afore slapping bottomward what can be hundreds of dollars bottomward for aiguille quality. (My favorites are noise cancelling, because offices and continued trips are so abundant bigger back you’re acquainted out.)
Wired via a dongle is hardly a absolute band-aid to accepting no headphone jack either. Losing or apathy the dongle back you allegation it is not a fun time. Sometimes you accept to pay aloof to accept one in the aboriginal abode if it isn’t in the box, and if that’s not all, you can’t allegation your phone while you listen, unless you buy addition dongle/adaptor/unnecessary thingmabob.
So how did you vote on all of this? On to the results! What did the added than 50,000 of you who voted on the website, on our YouTube poll, on Twitter, Facebook, and on Instagram, say?
It’s a absolute win for Bluetooth headsets beyond the acclamation on every belvedere – alone the Instagrammers differed by any cogent margin, while Youtubers were best determined about Bluetooth.
So, why did the votes go this way? Let’s booty a attending at your comments. (Note, we aren’t blank anybody who said “but I accept 3.5mm headphone jack!” but it’s not about that. A poll including the headphone jack would not accept told any adventure – we like headphone jacks too, we aloof appetite added information!)
What you said in acknowledgment to the poll was absolutely advisory and useful, so acknowledgment for your contributions afresh people. What’s become bright isn’t that bodies badly appetite a active band-aid always, it’s aloof that it’s the best for now. Audio quality, no allegation to allegation a battery, no audio delays. Bluetooth is a champ absolute for some, but it isn’t yet for others because it’s alone an boilerplate band-aid to wireless.
On to your comments:
Don’t balloon that although we at Android Authority adore a acceptable speakerbox (and the adulation below), we bow bottomward to the masters of fidelity: our colleagues at SoundGuys! Check them out, I affirm Lily Katz offers a authentic ASMR acquaintance on YouTube too.
See you abutting week!
The problems with Bluetooth
But is a dongle any better?
Results
Relying abandoned on Bluetooth? We adore your adventurousness lifestyle
- “Bluetooth headphones: I don’t anticipate bodies abhorrence actuality chargeless of wires, it’s aloof that bodies abhorrence the agitation that comes forth with it (having to allegation the headphones, cede in complete quality, etc). If an OEM like Sony, Sennheiser, Audio Technica, etc can accomplish wireless headphones that complete absolutely good and accept batteries that aftermost months instead of hours, after accepting to accomplish them amount an arm and a leg, I anticipate a lot of bodies would be blessed to use Bluetooth instead of the 3.5mm jack.”
- “Bluetooth forever. I don’t alike apperceive how abounding headphones I’ve ripped the wire out of. Half an hour if charging gets me 13 hours of comedy time. I’ll never accept why bodies appetite to break in the past.”
- “I sometimes accept to music while charging my accessory and I abhorrence dongles. Either way though, I’ll apparently never buy a phone after a headphone jack unless it’s aloof that good.”
- “Wired headphones with a dongle: Because Bluetooth headphones accept to be charged.”
- “I aloof appetite to accept an instant acknowledgment and no audio delays back application Bluetooth.”
- “As continued as the dongle had a affection DAC/Amp inside, I’d accept that. Bluetooth is bound to 24/48 and I consistently accept to audio up to 24/352.8 with MQA from my V30.”
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