I feel like there's an adequate market for a phone case with a high quality headphone jack, extended battery, sd slot, etc. It shouldn't more than double the thickness
I have a recent Nokia that has all of the above. Except for maybe the "high quality" part, I'm not sure if the phone or aging headphones are to blame there. But the battery is a monster, though not replaceable. There seem to be plenty of others on the market.
I have joined the bluetooth headset world though, shokz openrun finally had a compelling feature set that I couldn't find with wired headphones.
There used to be a market for battery cases that were double thickness but that pretty much dried up when phone batteries became good enough and chargers charged in minutes rather than hours.
It's almost like features like card slots in smartphones are not particularly important to the mass market!
The discussion on HN when headphone jacks come up is always quite amusing. The market has demonstrated now for years that removing headphone jacks from phones is a perfectly reasonable decision for a manufacturer to make. I wonder how much longer HN commenters will keep insisting that it's a terrible mistake.
flukus|3 years ago
I have joined the bluetooth headset world though, shokz openrun finally had a compelling feature set that I couldn't find with wired headphones.
secondcoming|3 years ago
jmprspret|3 years ago
Gigachad|3 years ago
jhugo|3 years ago
The discussion on HN when headphone jacks come up is always quite amusing. The market has demonstrated now for years that removing headphone jacks from phones is a perfectly reasonable decision for a manufacturer to make. I wonder how much longer HN commenters will keep insisting that it's a terrible mistake.