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OnePlus 6T Trades the Headphone Jack For Better Battery Life (techradar.com)
OnePlus CEO Carl Pei confirmed to TechRadar that the OnePlus 6T won't have a headphone jack. Instead, it will feature a larger battery that will be "substantial enough for users to realize." From the report: Our first line of questioning was obvious. Why? Why ditch the jack? Why ditch it now? For Pei, it's about timing, and creating the best smartphone experience. "When we started OnePlus, we set out to make the best possible smartphone, but making a great phone doesn't mean putting every component available into the device," he said. "You've got to make decisions that optimize the user experience, and understand that at times things that provide user value can also add friction. "We also had to think about the negative side [of removing the headphone jack] for our users. We found 59% of our community already owned wireless headphones earlier this year - and that was before we launched our Bullets Wireless headphones. "If we were to do that [remove the jack] two years ago, the percentage [of wireless headphones owners] would have been much lower and it would have caused a lot of friction for our users."
Pei went on to explain that there are user benefits to the removal of the port, which should bring some comfort to OnePlus fans already pouring one out for the headphone jack. "By removing the jack we've freed up more space, allowing us to put more new technology into the product," he said. "One of the big things is something our users have asked us for, improved battery life." Pei wouldn't be drawn on what the "new technology" will be, but we already know the OnePlus 6T will feature an in-display fingerprint scanner, which will eat up some of the space left by the exiting jack. Pei did mention they will include an adapter in the box to allow users to use wired headphone.
Pei went on to explain that there are user benefits to the removal of the port, which should bring some comfort to OnePlus fans already pouring one out for the headphone jack. "By removing the jack we've freed up more space, allowing us to put more new technology into the product," he said. "One of the big things is something our users have asked us for, improved battery life." Pei wouldn't be drawn on what the "new technology" will be, but we already know the OnePlus 6T will feature an in-display fingerprint scanner, which will eat up some of the space left by the exiting jack. Pei did mention they will include an adapter in the box to allow users to use wired headphone.
It's one of the only features I use on my feature phone. You could take out the cameras, GPS, motion sensors and probably half a dozen other bits i've never heard of let alone used, but the headphone socket is important to me.
They had to make room for the notch.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
As the title says, it means my next phone will be another brand then... To bad since my current OnePlus5 is a great phone for a good price.
Instead of losing the jack, I'd rather see them add waterproofing, FM radio and an IR blaster.
Wireless headphones experience is still crap. I have tried many wireless headphones, and despite paying around 150USD each time, I always ended with headphones that are less comfortable and sound worse than my wired 40 dollar Koss PortraPro or 60 dollar Sennheiser PX100-ii. Moreover, these super duper "advanced" and expensive headsets have a tendency to stop working within a year. I refuse to carry that stupid dongle. It's just another item that will get lost and it's just plain inconvenient to use.
As for Oneplus, all I can say hasta la vista. It was good while it lasted. I recall the first Oneplus One from 2014 which had flagship build and specs for just 300USD. Now that was a value. But now that Oneplus is another +500USD phone that follows the worst trends, whether in pricing, cheating in benchmarks, or deleting the headphone jack, all I can do is stop considering Oneplus for my next purchase.
A headphone jack takes up a neglible amount of space compared to its use. I don't see any legitimate argument for dumping it.
I doubt it very much. I wish the industry made the jump for the 2,5mm jack before considering to ditch it completely.
The fact the CEO choose to not talk numbers indicate that the battery gain is probably just meh.
> We found 59% of our community already owned wireless headphones earlier this year
Yes, I do own 3 wireless headphones but one of them has bad sound, one of them has bad battery and one of them has bad range so the sound skips sometimes even if the phone is in my pocket.
With wireless headphones I could buy a pair with decent sound for $20 and be happy, now I have spent $40-$60 on 3 headphones with decent reviews on amazon and all of them have some kind of flaw.
The flaw with my wired headphones for $20 was that it was wired, but that was at least as advertised.
I have probably used the headphones jack on my current phone, which I have had for three years, less than five times. However, I use the battery every day.
Iâ(TM)d gladly trade elimination of one for more utility from the other.
> With wireless headphones I could buy a pair with decent sound for $20 and be happy
Equally important, you could buy them *anywhere*. I've yet to see a wireless pair at a corner store.
Took a 4-hour train trip recently. Guess what I forgot? Lots of stores in the station had headphones, none of which would work.
Why not just make it 1mm thicker, keep the headphone jack, and vastly increase the volume of the battery...
OnePlus CEO Carl Pei confirmed to TechRadar that the OnePlus 6T won't have a headphone jack. Instead, it will feature a larger battery that will be "substantial enough for users to realize.
If that's what their customers actually prefer that is a sensible course of action. Personally I seldom used the headphone jack on phones so I'm quite pleased to have the space budget utilized for other items like batteries. You may feel differently of course and that's totally fine but there are a LOT of people who do not actually care much about the 3.5mm jack. The fact that Apple sells tens of millions of iPhones without the jack is proof enough of that. People that need/want the jack are passionate about it but not as many as you might guess from the complaining.
Personally I think the best answer is to move the headphone jack to the cases that virtually every smartphone is put into anyway. Think about it. Imagine a smartphone that has a standard interface (contact or wireless) to connect to the case. Then you could put all sorts of useful equipment (headphone jacks, bigger batteries, ethernet or other ports, better cameras, good speakers/amps, extra storage, multi-meters, oscilloscopes, etc) into the case based on your particular needs at the time. It's kind of like the unix philosophy in hardware. You have a minimalist core system and then people add the components to it that they actually need. Since nearly everyone adds a case to their phone anyway it seems foolish to not make full use of that fact and put some real capabilities into the case. Plus it would seem to be a real economic opportunity since people LOVE to personalize their phones. I do a lot of photography and I would love to have a case with a much bigger camera lens and battery that integrated seamlessly with my phone. All the smartphone maker would have to do is provide a good interface and API for the hardware makers to play with.
Fuck them for removing the 3.5mm jack. I rather they removed USB-C and provided a 3.5mm to USB-C dongle
I really don't understand this infatuation with removing something that, for better or worse, has been with us for several decades. It's not just this manufacturer, but it seems to be every manufacturer that is removing the 3,5 mm plug. And I really don't understand why: it can't take up that much space on the PCB, the technology is by now pretty well-known and understood by even the most tech-idiotic people on the planet.
If the manufacturer wants more battery life, why not make the phone a bit thicker? My HTC U11 is around 7 mm thick (guessing, not measuring. For those who want it in Imperial units, you will have to google it.) and I don't think another 3-7 mm would make much difference to me. Granted, I don't know if it would be technically feasible to build a battery in the shape this would force (or make possible) so maybe it couldn't be done in less than an extra 5-20 mm.
As for the question of how much we would use the 3,5 mm plug: in my case at least an hour a day, on my way to and from work. As it is, I have to carry a short cable, with a USB-C male plug on one and and 3,5mm female on the other in order to plug my headphones into my phone. And I don't want to use some other headphones, because when I get to work I plug them into my laptop while connecting the phone to a charger.
More battery life removing a small 1/8 jack? I can think of some legitimate reasons removing a jack could be such as eliminating a point of entry for liquid, or aesthetic reasons. But making room for a noticeable battery life increase is not one of them. I'm keeping my iPhone SE for one reason, that is the audio jack. Yes, I do have Bluetooth headphones of decent quality from Sony. But they still lack the overall quality I get from a decent wired pair. Bluetooth is a lot of things, but one thing its not is having huge bandwidth for audio transfer. I suppose its plenty for many who can't hear the difference. Or maybe all they have ever heard is crappy reproduction from cheap ear buds. But you don't have to be a audiophile to hear bad quality and a step down in quality for the sake of eliminating a wire.
A headphone jack takes up a neglible amount of space compared to its use
Maybe for you but that's not universally true. I almost never used the headphone jack so it was a total waste of space for me. In a compact device with such a tight space budget there is no such thing as something that takes up negligible space. I get that many people like and utilize the 3.5mm jack and the benefits are not lost on me. But the simple fact is that tradeoffs are going to happen and no company can please everyone. And the evidence is clear that a LOT of people don't care about the 3.5mm jack at all.
I don't see any legitimate argument for dumping it.
That's because you are only looking at the issue from your own perspective. If I were to use my own perspective I would argue exactly the opposite that there is no legitimate argument for including it. After all I don't need that particular bit of kit. Both views are equally valid if we aren't considering the needs of others. In reality a vast number of people don't care at all about the 3.5mm jack and likewise a lot of others care very passionately. Companies need to try to serve what they think their customers really want which might not be what you or I personally want.
What I really think is the best answer is for them to make an elegant interface for cases so that OEMs and third parties could make cases with all sorts of cool optional equipment (batteries, cameras, headphone jacks, etc) for personal needs. I'd LOVE to have a case with a larger battery and a "real" camera in it because I do a lot of photography. I don't care about the headphone jack but you do and then you would have a way to get it while keeping the core phone elegantly small. Most of us put our smartphones in cases anyway so why is nobody taking full advantage of that fact?
Once again android handsets copy Apple. I love watching the google fanboys lose their minds.
Personally, I get enough battery life out of a OnePlus 5. A little more would be nice, but it's not that important on the phone.
Of course, what helps battery life is turning off unnecessary wireless connections - like wifi, and even bluetooth when you don't need it. And they'll be delivering Android 9, which should improve matters further.
Where I do have a problem with battery life is on wireless headsets - you just can't get anything that I am comfortable with wearing that has more than 8 hours continuous battery life.
When I'm travelling long distances, I'll use *wired* headsets - in order to improve my "battery life". So removing the 3.5" jack for slightly better battery life on the phone isn't solving any problems that I have. It is simply creating one.
Sorry, I don't believe it. The footprint of a headphone jack next to the USB jack isn't going to give any meaningful improvement in battery size opportunity.
How about make the stupid phone 1 or 2 mm *THICKER*. That would make a huge difference in cubic space available for a bigger battery. And now poll consumers- which would you rather have:
1) Crazy thin with headphone jack and X battery life
2) Crazy thin with NO headphone jack and X + 20 min more battery life
3) 2mm thicker with headphone jack and X + 20 HOURS more battery life.
Of course, I am making up the numbers, but you get the idea.
You just traded my interest, for lack of interest.
Don't follow some idiot fad from Apple. Possible the most ubiquitous plug across the entire planet and you omit it?
Power varies in shape, voltage across the planet.
USB? I dunno, it might rival the audio jack, maybe for install numbers.
I don't want to charge headphones, I don't want to use USB-C headphones, I want to use the plethora (plethora!) of headphones I have, I want to be able to use /dirt cheap/ crap spare ones in my work drawer or work bag. I want to be able to pay $5 at the airport for a crap pair when I forget mine at home before a fight.
I have no interest in bluetooth / wireless audio. I LIKE the cable.
Nope, no sale. I will not.
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
An oldie but a goodie perfectly demonstrates how adding features can be a slippery slope into the dump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Answer is in the blurb. "We found 59% of our community already owned wireless headphones earlier this year - and that was before we launched our Bullets Wireless headphones."
That's all.
So you use the headphone jack.
No. The last time I actually plugged a set of headphones into my own smartphone was about 4-5 years ago and I can probably count on my fingers the total number of times I've ever used ear buds since I started using a smartphone. I have a set of bluetooth headphones if I want to listen to something privately. My car also has bluetooth and USB so the headphone jack is completely unnecessary to me. I don't listen to music or other sound when I work or exercise. The removal of the jack from my smartphone didn't affect my work flow at all. I used the word "seldom" to be truthful but I could have said "never" and it would have been accurate enough.
We want our tangling wires!
Bought my kid a OnePlus 3 and wished I had one myself. Wired headphones get lost / broken easily enough in our house (real life in a family), I have no interest in dealing with four sets of cordless headphones as well, no way I want to trade it for less quality on top of that. Between phones, tablets, game controllers, battery packs I already have around 12 devices to charge from night to night. No way I want to manage chargeable headphones. I guess I won't be buying OnePlus any longer.
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They're idiots, all. It's not a "headphone jack," it's an analog audio jack.
It's used almost exclusively as a headphone jack by 99%+ of users. You are technically correct but calling it a headphone jack isn't actually wrong.
It works with headphones, but having bluetooth headphones doesn't help with connecting a phone to an older car or a stereo.
You can buy a bluetooth adapter with a 3.5mm jack to give any device this capability for less than $20. I did this with an older truck of mine that had a 3.5mm jack but no bluetooth. And it's a LOT easier to deal with that plugging in a loose audio cable to my phone every time I get in the vehicle.
BT audio is more complex, costly, and inconvenient.
Oh bullshit. The cost differential is a few dollars at most and your smartphone is going to have bluetooth anyway. It's not complex and it's actually FAR more convenient in a lot of use cases. Personally I absolutely hate wrangling cords which is ironic since I make wire harnesses for a living.
And the "we traded a jack for more battery life" is pure and simple bullshit.
Not really sure how you came to this conclusion. If they pulled out the jack and dedicated that space budget to a batter then it is the absolute truth. It's going to be a marginal improvement but it's one I personally would take every time since I don't use the jack. Obviously others feel the same way.
The DAC in that adapter sucks way more battery than the infinitesimal bit gained by removing the jack.
That is nothing more than an assumption on your part without evidence provided to back it up.
There are zero reasons that I will benefit, and a multitude of reasons that I don't want the device. Problem solved, for both of us!
The 3T is great. I won't be buying the 6T. Idiots.
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The only reason there is no headset jack and an ugly, losable dongle is to strongly compel people to fork out for expensive wireless earbuds.
"Expensive"? You CAN pay a lot if you want to but it's hardly a requirement. You can get wireless earbuds for less than $20. The price differential with wired earbuds of similar quality is generally minimal if you bother to do any shopping.
As for losing the dongle, how would you do that? If you have one that you use you're going to put it on your headphone jack and probably leave it there. You're about as likely to lose your headphones as you are the dongle. I will agree however that dongles are a shitty hack "solution" and that a better solution would be to integrate the headphone jack into the case for people who want the capability.
And actually there are other reasons to remove the jack besides cynical merchandising. For one, a lot of people don't actually use the jack. I'm one of them. It's a complete waste of space in a phone for me. Obviously many people do use them but millions more are existing quite happily without the jack. It's a single tasking relic of an interface on a device with a tight space budget. It's not hard to think of alternatives uses for the space. If it's important to you then by all means get a phone that has one but please don't pretend it is any sort of universal requirement.
Don't follow some idiot fad from Apple. Possible the most ubiquitous plug across the entire planet and you omit it?
A fad indicates that it will eventually pass. Tens of millions of phones are being sold every year without the headphone jack. It's not coming back so I suggest you get over it. It's a single tasking and relatively large connector which makes very little sense on a machine with a tight space budget and acceptable replacement options available.
USB? I dunno, it might rival the audio jack, maybe for install numbers.
"Rival"? Try vastly exceeds. Almost every low power device I have has a USB port. Computers, cameras, headphones, chargers, mice, keyboards, tablets, smartphones, etc. You know how many of my devices have a 3.5mm audio jack? Maybe 3. My oldest car, an ancient amplifier and one of my older PC monitors. Maybe I'm forgetting one but you get the point. You are hugely overestimating the ubiquity of this particular port. If you need it there are plenty of ways to connect to one even with devices that don't have the port. Bluetooth and USB adaptors are widely available and cheap.
I have no interest in bluetooth / wireless audio. I LIKE the cable.
That's a perfectly valid choice but please don't pretend the rest of us should have to go along with it.
Current devices are used by a lot of people to access Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Rarely are used as phones, so have an headphone jack is of lesser utility. On the other hand older analogue and GSM cellphones didn't normally had a 3,5 mm jack, but used a propietary connector for connecting headphones and mic, some used a 2,5 mm jack to save space, but the idea to have an external headphone and mouthpiece is natural for a telephone.
If you think them as a spying devices on the other hand.. .
Better battery capacity... But wouldn't bluetooth transmission consume more power than what is earnt from a slightly bigger battery? Or would that even out with not having to do the D/A conversion inside the phone?
For Pei, it's about timing, and creating the best smartphone experience.
How is devaluing the utility of my phone by making an everyday activity impossible "creating the best experience"?
Seriously curious - it seems my current phone is a battery hog with bluetooth on and constantly transmitting the way it needs to for headphones. Does running the bluetooth transmitter actually drain the battery less than wired phones?
If they REALLY want to save battery, how about not transmitting my location, heading, speed, acceleration, inclination, and anything the microphone picks up back to home base every 2 seconds.
that this whole jack removal thing is somehow industry forced. Maybe a requirement for 1+ to sell their device (for the first time) via a major US carrier? I can understand the reasons to remove the SD card slot and for non-removable batteries, even though I don't agree, but regarding the headphone jack there is literally no reason at all (more space, outdated tech is just... laughable) except one... DRM.
Also, 1+ plus knows the majority of their customers are power users which won't accept this change lightly. They also ridiculed themselves (just like Google did) because they followed this trend only a few months after mocking their competitors for doing so. So either Pei was somehow forced to it make this change or he is a complete idiot. I don't think the latter is true.
Doesn't excuse his action though...
Oh well... I guess I'll buy this phone for its other features, and keep my old phone for calls, videos, music, browsing, finance, games, and a few other things.
You know what else gives a better battery life?
A thicker battery. In other words, something that's thicker than the enclosure of a headphone jack.
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If you do a lot of photography then buy a proper camera.
Already have a Sony A9 but thanks for the unhelpful suggestion.
There are lots of times where a smartphone is FAR more useful than the best "proper" camera. Every pro photographer uses their smartphone camera routinely. Smartphones are more compact and light, take better than decent quality images and video under many circumstances, are unobtrusive, have VASTLY better capabilities for sharing and backing up images, bigger and better screens than any "proper camera", far better interfaces for point and shoot, and more besides. As the saying goes the best camera is the one you have with you and I ALWAYS have my smartphone with me but I'm not lugging a 3kg full frame mirrorless camera + lens everywhere I go. "Proper cameras" are can get better images if you work at it but smartphones have totally kicked their ass in the low end of the market.
Honestly the major camera makers (Canon, Nikon, Sony, etc) are seriously dropping the ball with regard to interface and image sharing on pro grade and enthusiast grade cameras. They are universally terrible without exception regardless of brand. I shoot Sony and their menu system is horrendous but Canon and Nikon and the rest aren't meaningfully better. And the options for getting photos off your phone to a PC where you can use them are even worse. My camera actually has a built in RJ45 ethernet jack but the only thing you can do with it is to FTP the files. No automatic backup via wifi, minimal or clumsy geostamping, poor integration with tablets/smartphones, terrible interface software. Smartphones killed the point and shoot and are hurting the "pro" camera market because they have made the workflows for actually using pictures absurdly bad. They still expect you to pull out the SD card and transfer them like we are back in the days of floppy disks. Hell, my $4000 camera doesn't even have USB-C or USB3 for fucks sake.
But "wireless headphone owner" does NOT equal "user who doesn't care if their phone has a headphone jack"! I own wireless headphones, it doesn't mean I also don't care about the ability to plug into the several non-BT audio systems I regularly use!
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The analog hole is now dead. There's few of us left who care.
This isn't just happening with cell phones. Browsing motherboards on newegg I keep finding ones that support 5.1 or 7.1 surround but only have a stereo out jack, instead of the usual 3 or 4. I guess they figure on using HDMI for audio?
LG tried something similar with the G5 and it wasn't a big hit. I don't know the reason. Probably because the phone itself didn't sell too well.
I would imagine because they didn't do it right and didn't make a big deal out of it. I wasn't aware they had even bothered to try. Realistically it would probably have to be Apple or Samsung or Google to get involved to really make it a reality - nobody else has the market share or brand cache including LG. Ideally it would be Apple since they are the main trend setter but I don't see Apple doing it because they seem to think expandability and customer choice are the work of the devil and they treat cases and other accessories as afterthoughts if they bother at all. (their battery case is a HORRIBLE design) Doing what I suggest involves building an ecosystem which isn't easy.
Smart people carry a bag of every dongle they might need with them, apparently.
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They work at the gym, they work on the motorcycle, they work when i'm doing yard work, they just plan work.
Leave the damn headphone jack!!!
so if I want earphones I have to worry about charging two devices not just one. Yeah that's progress.
You can mod your own car.
(Personally, I've added two such gadgets, a similar to my mother-in-law's car, and one using the car manufacturer's proprietary connect on my mother's car)
But you won't by yourself modify every single analog only device, specially all those that you don't own :
- rental cars (these tend to be old and with as few options as possible)
- the speaker set at a friend's appartment when they throw a party, and some iPhone user want to stream their playlist instead of the friend's laptop's.
Also, bluetooth won't share sound (e.g.: two users watching s movie from the same tablet in a plane). Only some bluetooth headsets from some manufacturers are able to forward the sound stream to another headset *from the same exact brand*. We you and your girlfriend happen to have noise cancel headphone from two different manufacturers (say Bose and Logitech UE), you can't listen simultaneously. Whereas the analog cable doesn't give a fuck what brand is the other headset plugged into the other leg of the Y audio splitter.
etc.
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Oneplus never had FM radio support. So it was already off my list. So don't care about them.
They didn't "start" OnePlus...Oppo did, and, still makes ALL the OnePlus phones. As for the user experience, Oppo's oneplus phones are nothing more than beta test devices for more expensive Oppo phones. They have the users do the testing. They ARE getting better, but still lack in a good out of the box/new experience. Too many bugs/patches/updates to get it to work properly. It started out as a cheaper high quality phone, but the price now is to the point you can get a better phone for almost the same price.
That is like saying they had a layoff that freed workers up to do better things.
No BUY!
Fun fact, in a manner of speaking, we already have a way to do this.USB ports on the bottom of the phone.
True but it's not an ideal way to do it and the phones were never designed with that in mind. It also requires making a rather fragile pass through connection so you can charge your phone which shouldn't be necessary. It's something of a clumsy hack rather than a purposeful design. I'd like to see something purpose built to take full advantage of the idea without messing up the form factor (think electric contacts flush with the case with a sort of magsafe technology connector). That said, I'd certainly take using the existing USB/Lightning ports over nothing at all.
The DAC on any phone probably costs a whole $0.02 to manufacture, and you're being snobbish about sound quality? You're not going to get audiophile quality sound out of that, no matter what flac file you play through it.
Unfortunate to be honest. I've been using their phones since the One. Now, their phones are just cheap Apple knock offs. Looks like I'll be doing some research for a new manufacturer that allows me to unlock the boot loader.
Why not make it 1mm thicker and keep the headphone jack?
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
and what a lousy excuse, as others have pointed out just increasing the thickness a slight amount you could have a super battery
Numbers of hours increase or this is FUD/marketing lies.
And I'm also of the thought that if the headphone jack + amplifier take up that much space then I'd rather have a phone that was much thicker than many current flagship phones and have an extra day of battery life.
Is it possible to get a list of phones which incorporate a headphone jack which are currently on sale.
A headphone jack is a feature that I would like to have.
Reviewers get your heads out of your arses and give phones without headphone jacks a bad review.
The smartphone space is desperate for new ideas; so desperate that they copy things (see "the notch") that sometimes add nothing at all, even as they subtract from available screen space.
So this Pei fella, he also thinks it's "courage" to remove a valuable feature. In that respect it's surprising they made the correct decision on including the larger battery! Where's the courage there, Pei??
Just skimming through the comments, I guess I'm the only one that really doesn't mind. I don't think I've used the headphone jack once on my OnePlus 3T. I only use bluetooth headsets, so if this comes out to a little better battery life, sounds good to me. I'll probably pick up the 6T.
But if it has a non-removable battery, they can keep it. Phones without removable batteries are disposable, and I won't pay more than $50.00 for a disposable phone.
Really if your telling me this is the future of technology you gotta be joking! It seems like only in America do we have slow so called innovative ideas in the works, especially with the IPhone! And scanners to me is an invasion of privacy, I donâ(TM)t like it at all, in fact it creeps me out! Itâ(TM)s a reminder of Total Recall from 1990, and now we will see more of this?! Well forget you stupid Scientists and Engineers today with your wacko ideas I just want an ordinary cellphone without all those ridiculous contraptions and why play video games on a stupid small device?! All I would like to see is an improvement with the battery and the apps for selling on my device, And I donâ(TM)t play video games on my IPhone!
The one thing I don't need and won't ever need is a fingerprint scanner. Give me the analog port. I don't even mind if you switch to a smaller jack and include an adapter to standard to make the phone thinner or water-tight, just include an analog audio port and halfway-decent D/A built-in.