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Please bring back the 3.5mm headphone jack!

Removing it is one of the most annoying things ever in a phone. Yes, Bluetooth is getting better, but the jack always works perfectly. Why can't we have both?

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The IP rating will degrade the moment they bring it back. The jacks will either corrode or let water inside the phone and kill it entirely. Nobody wants to deal with that giant hole.

Nah, that was solved decades ago. We had water-resistant phones with headphone jacks, even with replaceable batteries.

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