The issue with Bluetooth is that these earphones are ear-specific, and headphones cover both ears so you can't lay on an ear
I listen to audio books while falling asleep, having just one earphone in because I don't want to lay on one (they're plenty sturdy, but my ear is not)
Falling asleep is harder if you want to turn around but need to now look on the nightstand (if available, not always the case in a ho(s)tel room) for where you've left the other one, place the one you took out in the right spot, and your model needs to have pause/play available on both sides so you can extend the sleep timer on the audio book player. Ideally, they also work for meetings because you already have a set of earphones so why not dual-purpose them?
This sounds like a tall order when I write the requirements out, but the second-cheapest earphones models, the variant with a mic and button built into the cable for like 15€ when I last bought a pair, worked just fine ever since I was a child (Nokia 6230i) until now (S10e battery is on its last leg and the screen is discoloring pretty badly, idk what's wrong with this unit, I didn't drop it...). There just aren't performant phones with a headphone jack left, only this Asus "not your phone" device, cheap tablet-sized phones, and old models that won't run modern apps after a few years (not for performance reasons, just minSdk)
The pains of growing old and having to go with the times I guess
I listen to audio books while falling asleep, having just one earphone in because I don't want to lay on one (they're plenty sturdy, but my ear is not)
Falling asleep is harder if you want to turn around but need to now look on the nightstand (if available, not always the case in a ho(s)tel room) for where you've left the other one, place the one you took out in the right spot, and your model needs to have pause/play available on both sides so you can extend the sleep timer on the audio book player. Ideally, they also work for meetings because you already have a set of earphones so why not dual-purpose them?
This sounds like a tall order when I write the requirements out, but the second-cheapest earphones models, the variant with a mic and button built into the cable for like 15€ when I last bought a pair, worked just fine ever since I was a child (Nokia 6230i) until now (S10e battery is on its last leg and the screen is discoloring pretty badly, idk what's wrong with this unit, I didn't drop it...). There just aren't performant phones with a headphone jack left, only this Asus "not your phone" device, cheap tablet-sized phones, and old models that won't run modern apps after a few years (not for performance reasons, just minSdk)
The pains of growing old and having to go with the times I guess