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>Options..?

Carry a battery pack. Have a backup set of cheap old-style tethered Bluetooth earbuds, if you don't have any others. And most importantly, charge your headphones in your pre-flight routine.

I'm a curmudgeonly type who has clung to all of those fading amenities: headphones jack, removable battery, micro SD. And I can say that the headphone jack has mattered the least by far.

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Or carry a dongle, or carry... that's the problem. So now your "we made it thinner" phone makes you carry and keep track of several more items to solve a problem that shouldn't exist. Instead of having to carry an entire tech portfolio everywhere, how about the ability to plug in a set of headphones most airlines / gas stations charge $5 for?

You don't really want a headphone jack, just carry a (comparatively huge) battery was a funny take to read for sure. The removal of the headphone jack was obviously not motivated by technological superiority of BT or any sort of necessity. It was for the vanity factor that Apple started on, and others joined, of slightly sleeker looks; and the cynic in me strongly suspects the airpod / other peripheral market was not far behind as a driver of that decision. I don't care so much if technology changes, but when it regresses for what appears to be largely (if not only) vanity and greed, it's fair to call a spade a spade.

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