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by NikolaNovak 2730 days ago
I'm not convinced (they may in ideal condition, but it does not appear that the Sennheisers or Nuraphones have a boom - they're just headphones with a microphone, so I'd be skeptical of their performance in a noisy environment or if you're typing on a keyboard or any other distracting audio input; as I said I love my wireless Sennheisers and Plantronics for listening, but there are times I still want 3.5mm option) , but for the sake of the argument, my question remains - how would _your_ experience be worse, if your phone also had a 3.5mm jack?

(and lest we go down the argument of "what, do you still need a parallel port" etc - this is a standard that existed, depending on how you count, anywhere between 50 years and a century, which still performs the function cheaply, reliably and conveniently; whereas that lightning to 3.5mm to charging dongle will, if all goes well, be in the dustbins of history in 5-10 years or less - and we'll see how well the Bluetooth headsets work with audio devices 10 years from now)