2.5mm Headset Jack WHY Nokia WHY? 😢
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Verizon does not want phones competing with the Storm and its 3.5mm jack
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No, its not Verizon. Nokia made the phone.
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I think that it is Verizon. All the headsets they sell are 2.5mm. I think they want manufacturers to make them a standard 2.5mm. Smartphones are the exception. All the Verizon dumbphones are 2.5mm
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LG Dare is not a smartphone...3.5mm jack. Most music centric phones are getting the 3.5mm jack and most headsets are beginning to be made that way or include the adapter.
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MennoMar 24, 2009, 1:50 PM
LG Dare
LG Chocolate 3
Are both dumphones with actual headphone jacks. If this is a smaller jack, it is Nokia's doing. Considering they are going for form factor, they most likely chose to do it on their own.. Just be happy they didn't make it a proprietary jack that connects to the charging port to make the phone even slimmer.
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Well Said. In fact that proprietary jack can be found on smartphones. I'm looking at you HTC.
Three Basic hardware connections (Slot/Port/Jack) every mid to high end phone should have.
microSDHC Slot
microUSB HiSpeed 2.0 Charging/Data Port
3.5mm Headset Jack
It's not Neurosurgery
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Unfortunatly the entire industry is screwed up, and carriers don't bud out of handset makers making phones. They need to be seperate industries damn it! Television sets and the cable industry are seperate! ! !
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Because it is - by far - the most common standard connector for phone headsets.
On a music-centric device, 3.5mm makes more sense, but on a phone-centric device, 2.5mm makes more sense.
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I say ANY phone that has mp3 software IS a music centric phone, and therefore should have a 3.5mm headphone jack.
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I disagree. Most phones have an MP3 player these days. A simple software feature like that costs almost nothing to add. It's practically like alarm clock, calendar and calculator; there's all standard on phones for a reason. MP3 player doesn't make a phone music-centric, just music-capable.
Even many phones with little memory and no memory card slot have an MP3 player. Sure they can only hold half a dozen songs, but from the software developer's point of view, why not? Would you call such a phone a music-centric phone?
I think the reality is that 3.5mm jacks have a size trade-off, and to most people, they're rather have a smaller phone, larger battery, etc. That's why 3.5mm is not in more phones.
Some phones are music centric...
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did you notice how thin this phone is, that is the main reason the "manufacture" will put a 2.5 vs 3.5 to save space.
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