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So instead of buying headphones for about $5 which last as long as your phone does, has no connection issus, and can be kept plugged in so it won't get lost, I have to spend $30 for something which is easy to lose and needs to be kept charged (and no, there's no way a little ear piece will have as big of a battery as my phone, and besides for which, I can keep my phone plugged in during the day at work).

And for what?

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I forgot to add:

I went through maybe 10? in-ear headphones over 5 years.

Those things break all the time. And boy does it get annoying and expensive to replace these things:

- Sennheiser CX300-B In-Ear Stereo Headphone

- Sennheiser CX 400 In-Ear Headphone (Black) - 4 of these

- Etymotic Research ER6i Isolator In-Ear Earphones (Black)

- Many Sony headphones from the corner store :P

It's been maybe a year, with bluetooth headphones, my first bluetooth in-ear headphones still work. Maybe because there's less stress on the ear piece-wiring connection? I don't know.

Maybe I wasn't gentle enough with them, had bad luck, or got bad products. I don't know.

Also I forgot to mention how lame it is when the headphone jack itself on the laptop wears down or breaks. And you have to take the whole unit in for repair.

I look forward to never having to worry about that again :P

Personally, I never really invested money into them. I found that the moderately expensive ones break just as often as the cheap ones, but even if you break a $2 pair twice a year, that's $4 a year. To pay off a $20 piece, it'll take you five years of breaking earpieces without losing or braking your Bluetooth.

And no one is saying that Bluetooth is _bad_ and should be banned. We're just complaining that a usable and ergonomic technology is going away.

The trick is to buy headphones with replaceable wires so you don't have to buy new headphones, just new wires.

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