• @davidgro
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    429 months ago

    Can’t wait for people with these to talk on speakerphone in public (or just play their music at max volume)

    On the other hand I wonder if “600% higher” is just 8.5 dB louder. (700% total) - which isn’t nothing, but “In general, to measure loudness, a sound must be increased by 10 dB to be perceived as twice as loud.”

    • @thehatfox
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      369 months ago

      Yeah, as someone who uses public transport having the noise nuisances get 600% louder really doesn’t sound too great.

      • Hyperreality
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        119 months ago

        Sometimes I wear headphones/earbuds without the music on, just to drown at the noise.

        Get ones that isolate noise well.

        • @[email protected]
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          69 months ago

          Hahaha this, I have ANC headphones and I always have them on, rarely any music.

          In the past with my in-ear buds I would always listen to some random stuff just to get rid of that noise, which makes no sense and left me mentally exhausted

  • ugh
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    309 months ago

    Those will… not sell. Elementary school kids have smart phones. This isn’t 2009 when the cool kids are sharing earbuds to listen to their Zune.

  • @woelkchen
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    139 months ago

    XLR socket or bust!

  • @[email protected]
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    109 months ago

    One headphone jack is enough. Just pair it with a powerful amp and dac like on the LG V-series.

  • BirdEnjoyer
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    109 months ago

    I just want a phone designed to make spoken word more audible in noisy environments, so I don’t have to use some sketchy app when I’m trying to hear a poorly balanced podcast over the stove fan while cooking.

    This just sounds like q feature that I’ve literally never seen anyone ask for outside of that or movies, basically

    • @[email protected]
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      89 months ago

      Try out Shokz bone conducting headphones. They are awesome, you can hear the world around you, and the app has a vocal booster mode that makes listening to podcasts much better. It works really well on my 1.5 hour bike commute in traffic with road noise, and I can still hear the cars passing by.

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      Try new moto phones. They have dolby presets and their podcast preset is quite good. I don’t know if all their phones support it, but most of the new ones have this.

    • @[email protected]
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      19 months ago

      It’s got it’s faults but I love the speakers on my Zenfone 10. Very loud with good bass, especially for a relatively compact phone.

      I’d love a phone with a dedicated DAC and decent shielding like the old LG V devices. Whilst there are dedicated DAPs with these features at this point I’d prefer an all in one device. Although the ZD10 has a headphone jack I can hear humming with no music/sound through them -_-

  • @[email protected]
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    99 months ago

    Meme phone for sure but the industry is so boring now that I’ve started to appreciate these occasional weird designs out of China.

  • @aluminium
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    99 months ago

    Having a headphone jack is great, but this really is a gimmy

      • @herrvogel
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        89 months ago

        Who? Who needs to be able to plug 2 headphones into their phones?

  • @[email protected]
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    -29 months ago

    Finally the phone for everyone who claims the fairphone is not sustainable anymore because they removed the headphone jack.

    • алсааас [she/they]
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      189 months ago

      “trust me, consooming the green way is going to save the planet. just buy our TWS earbuds, no this is not the reason we removed the headphone jack”

      • @davidgro
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        69 months ago

        Or removable battery