2025 Motorola 5G Stylus.
Has aux port and SD card slot
And a stylus
That’s the one I got precisely for those reasons.
The shitty part is that the screen was advertised by LG themselves as an HDR display and once I got it it’s not HDR in any sense of the word. If I used my phone to watch stuff besides the odd tiktok I would have been very pissed and returned it.
You can just buy phones with headphone jacks. I have never bought a phone without a headphone jack and without an SD card slot in my life and I don’t plan on starting.
The headphone wire also serves as a FM radio antenna. You can’t get that with wireless headphones or a connection via the USB jack.
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.
Ugh. I just dug out my Zenfone 6 to use as a DAP. I do wish there was something smaller though…
I almost forgot how cool it is. Notification LED, rear fingerprint reader, SD card slot, dual SIM, extra programmable physical button, flip-around camera, headphone jack w/ HQ DAC. It’s pretty much peak hardware (other than being too big and heavy). But unfortunately ASUS abandoned the software after about a year.
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.
2025 Motorola 5g Stylus. Aux port and SD card slot. It’s fantastic. And Motorola supports grapheneOS
Does it play FLAC and OGG files? Make/Model please?
Yep. I have .flacs .wav etc. Plays em all. They call em DAPs (Digital audio players) now instead of MP3 player because they can play most music formats.
Fiio Echo
Dank
Ass
PlayerEDIT: Another highly recommend player is the HIFI WALKER H2. Some people are putting custom firmware on it, if you don’t like the stock.
I would never touch a Sonos after what they did to the people with the first gen hardware.
It’s my biggest fear with cloud crap and then they went and confirmed it.
Yeah I have first gen Sonos. I heard they had bricked em before my app upgraded and I disconnected them from the internet before they got to mine. They’ve just been offline since, only used on the tv.
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 leave a USB-C to headphone jack adapter attached to my headphones. I’ve had these headphones for 10+ years. They’re nice, sound superb, and don’t have batteries.
Yes, but they require to add an adaptator to charge the device while you use the headphone. So a good old jack would make the device better.
Should I choose between two devices and the only difference would be that one has the 3.5 jack, and the other doesn’t ; I would take the one with the jack…
Sony xPeria 6 user here still using aux for headphones
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
The Clicks Communicator BB clone looks to have a Jack. It’s in the running!!
I feel like the only people who crave the physical keyboard on a phone are the ones that still refuse to use a Swype style keyboard on a touch screen.
When they were first released it was pretty good and now it’s basically perfect.
I have not had a physical keyboard since my palm pre died and have not felt the need to go back.
Swipe gang rise up
I refuse to buy a phone without a headphone jack. They already stole our IR blaster, I refuse to let them take more
I got a red magic 11 pro. Crazy high specs, headphone jack, and IR blaster. Also cooled with a fan and (superficially but looks awesome) circulating liquid cooling.
Still no SD card slot, though.
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
This was solely, and I mean completely solely, done out of greed to make more money by massive up charges to the phone model with more storage, and to push users into using their cloud based storage systems that would lock you into their ecosystem and and make a subscription based profit.
I mean, yes but also Android has no idea how to properly use MicroSD cards and that is fucking annoying.
lol what are you talking about considering Android is the only mobile OS that even lets you access the file system unlike apple
I haven’t needed the extra storage of the micro SD since what feels like forever. My current phone has 128GB, I’m only using half of it and I have hardly deleted anything from it in something like 2 years.
I also had what appeared be too much storage.
Then I got 2 cats.
Now it says 99% full.
Ok so you got a ton of photos of your cats but you’re not sharing any. I see how it is.
I have broken 4 micro SDs in the last 2 years. Thsnkfully, “broken” means set to read-only mods, so i could recover it. But yeah. I use it a lot.
I only recently learned that when they die they (usually) go read-only and you can very easily
ddto a new SD and carry-on.Would have saved me a lot of headaches over the years.
And that’s why I stopped giving a shit about SD card slots. I’ve never had a micro SD that didn’t break within a few years at most. It’s annoying and since you have to keep buying new cards it’s not even cheaper than just buying a phone with “enough” storage. I’d rather spend the money up front on a phone with a higher storage tier and have it actually work worry-free for the entire five plus years I’m using it.
This shows just shitty SD cards are for storage that’s used a lot. Even the expensive ones for high intensity use burn out really fast.
I’ve been self-hosting my own storage backup with Immich, and it’s been a game changer for me. It’s been an improvement over swapping out microsd cards and keeping track of what is stored where.
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.
Yeah it’s weird, the second you leave flagship phones there’s actually tons of options with headphone jacks and expendable storage, but somehow everyone got it in their head that they NEED a flagship android or an iPhone.
I have yet to buy a phone without both expandable storage and a headphone jack. My phone is not old, it’s just middle range instead of top of the line.
They aren’t going to shove these phones in your face the same way they do flagships, but they’re still being made. Do people really need the very minimal upgrades that cameras, storage, ram, and processing power get generation over generation? I don’t. I have real cameras that are better and cheaper than an iPhone. I don’t do much that requires a strong processor or more ram, those things happen on my computer. I honestly bet there’s tons of other people with similar needs that just aren’t aware that non flagship phones with different features even exist.
I love wireless earbuds. I know they’re not cheap like the wired ones are. Listening to music while you’re working out is better wirelessly. Talking on the phone is better. I get that tech companies are forcing us to adopt less free standards but I would never go back to wired earbuds.
Audio quality in calls with bluetooth sucks balls.
I don’t use ear buds, I use cans. Sony XM4s. Can use BT or Wired. Absolutely fantastic for when your headset battery runs out and still need to listen to good audio
I agree. Wireless buds are great. As are wired. Back in the day no one forced you to choose one.
And if you want to you still don’t have to choose between the two. You have to choose between phones that let you use both and phones that make you use wireless.
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.
That’s kind of an insane comparison. Input delay when using wireless headphones to listen to music is essentially meaningless. At worst it means it takes an additional 1/2 of a second for the song to start.
Input delay when you’re actually playing music is of utmost importance because there is a delay on everything you do. It makes it impossible to keep rhythm.
It’s two completely different scenarios
Yeah, but people play games on their phones, and video syncing to wireless earphone latency, is extra software that the app has to work around.
And all this, because some industry leaders want to extort you for 50 extra bucks for headphones, instead of putting the 0.70 cents jack on your phone.
The point, is the senselessness of the inconvenience the customer goes through, not how big or small the inconvenience is.
It’s proof the designer doesn’t have your interest in mind, and will take active steps to make your life worse, big or small, if they can get 10 more bucks out of you that way.
