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by davegirdy2 947 days ago
The aux cord removal is still felt by many
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I refuse to buy a mobile phone without one. Just not happening.
What phone would you buy right now if needed one?
Asus and Sony are still holdouts in the premium price range, Motorola and OnePlus in the budget range, and also a number of Chinese manufacturers I think
Sony, AFAIK, still gurantees boot unlocking, so, they're cool. But the price...
I have an xcover 6 pro that I adore!

Pros:

- incredibly durable; in the first week I had it, it slipped out of my pocket and was run over by a car, screen side down. No lasting damage aside from a few marks on tne glass

- headphone jack

- expandable storage

- removable battery

- dock-rechargable (which makes up for its lack of wireless charging)

- pretty clean android skin, cleaner even than my Pixel (which had a nonremovable google search box)

- has 3 programmable buttons, each with two options, so you can have hardware that launches your most used/time-sensitive apps. I have one mapped to Shazam, for example.

Cons:

- pretty big

- cant remove some samsung apps

- not a great camera or flashlight

Overall i would definitely buy another!

I bought a new phone a few months ago. Galaxy A14 5G. Of course, it's an extreme budget phone, but it works fine for me and - because there's less pressure to go for flatness - it has a 3.5mm port. In my experience, lots of budget phones still have them.