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Google Is Latest Company To Ditch Headphone Jack In Its Newest Smartphones (cultofmac.com)
When launching its original Pixel smartphone, Google mocked the iPhone 7's missing headphone jack in its marketing material. According to Cult of Mac, Google won't be doing the same for the Pixel 2. "The company has decided to remove the aging port from its latest handsets," reports Cult of Mac. "A new leak reveals that the lineup will rely solely on USB-C for wired connectivity." From the report: Incredibly reliable leaker Evan Blass has published pictures and details of Google's upcoming Pixel 2 smartphones on VentureBeat. He has also confirmed that neither device will feature a headphone jack, which means users will have to rely on a USB-C adapter or Bluetooth. It also means Google will no longer be able to put out Pixel ads that take sly swipes at the iPhone's missing port. Blass says both Pixel handsets will be powered by a Snapdragon 835 chipset -- the same one found in the Galaxy S8, the LG V30, and other 2017 flagships -- not a faster Snapdragon 836 processor as originally planned. Other features are said to include 12-megapixel cameras, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB or 128GB storage options. The smaller Pixel will pack a 5-inch 1080p display with a 16:9, while its larger sibling will pack a 6-inch Quad HD display with an 18:9 aspect ratio. Is the lack of a headphone jack a deal-breaker, or do you think the Pixel's other features, like stock Android and front-facing stereo speakers, will make up for it?
If you don't like it, don't read the posts. Get over yourself, faggot.
And it also has a battery that you can't remove. Sucker.
I know this is blatantly off topic and I'm just feeding a troll but I've been hooked and can't let go.
USB is a serial bus (2 pins for supply + 2 pins for serial signal), but USB-C isn't because is a parallel bus.
The Universal Serial Bus is a parallel bus?
USB-C is a new plug which can implement the USB3 protocol.
The USB3 protocol uses two sets of differential pairs for high speed communication. This is a serial bus and the same setup as many other systems including Serial ATA.
For backwards compatibility USB3 plugs contain wiring for both the serial USB2 signal and the serial USB3 signal, typically referred to as a dual signal. A typical device enumerates on one of the two busses, hubs enumerate on both to form two hubs one of which handles downstream USB3, the other downstream USB1/2.
However multiple serial busses does not make it a parallel bus, especially because the two signal sets run independently are clocked at different rates.
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Hello. Pentax K-S2 owner here, with five lenses (only three of which I regularly use).
I'm on your side -- I think cell phone cameras are atrocious. The ergonomics are terrible, the sensor is tiny and noisy (though admittedly improving all the time), the lenses are short, the aperture is effectively fixed so you have no control over depth of field (you have to fake it in software), and rolling shutter is the rule of the day. There are various kluges around these shortcomings, but they are just that -- kluges.
That said... 95% of people don't care, and can't be made to care. All they want is something to take snapshots. This is why the market for point-and-shoot digital cameras is disappearing. Cell phones absolutely crush them on features (larger screen, larger storage, built-in network connectivity, etc.) and have long been their equal in image quality. If you want something to take snapshots, your cell phone is absolutely the way to go.
However, if you want to get in to photography, then you'll need something better. Alas, there just don't seem to be that many people looking to do that.
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His is a perfectly valid response. Just because something's from the 1980's doesn't mean we need to ditch it. Hell, I'm from the 1980's and I find new uses for myself all the time.
Incidentally, the 3.5 mm jack is actually 19th c. tech, just slightly scaled down for some applications in the 20th c..
If you're not carrying some chip on your shoulder over Sony, unlike many people here, you might check out their phones.
The Xperias are still getting OS upgrades a few years later, not just security patches. My own handset is only about a year old from its own introduction, but it's been upgraded from 6.0.1 -> 7.0 -> 7.1, and is supposed to be getting an upgrade to Oreo in the future. It has a microSD card slot, a headphone jack, supports 192 khz/24 bit audio, Apt-X lossless bluetooth audio, and mine at least (Xperia Compact X) isn't stupidly slim, so it gets good battery life. I'm probably a bad example of phone usage, but I only charge it once every four days.
What the fuck? Lossy compression has nothing to do with the quality of data retrieval on a hard disk. If you've got data corruption, it'll affect any sort of file (and `flac -t` will tell you when a file is corrupted). a 320kbps MP3 stored with no intermitent data corruption from 2001 will have exactly the same bits and quality that it did in 2001. (Encoders have gotten better. A 320kbps MP3 from 2001 might sound worse than the song from the same source being encoded as 320kbps MP3 *today*, but that hs nothing to do with magical degradation.)
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>" https://www.amazon.com/Headpho... For $6.90 your problem is solved. But keep whining if that makes you feel better..."
Let's see:
1) 1.8 star review
2) Something else to remember
3) Something else to carry
3) still consumes battery
4) can't charge while using
5) can't use headset, only headphones
6) no option for inline controls
7) major compatibility issues
Exactly how does this solve the problem? So yeah, I will keep whining.
It has not gone away. Most brand new motherboards in mATX and ATX form factor do have headers for a parallel port and also a serial port.
You would just need to get brackets for them to get sockets out the back - just like you had to do with AT motherboards back in the day.
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