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What I find most sad about this is that LG appears to be the only manufacturer who makes phones with both wireless charging and a headphone jack. Somehow these features seem to contradict themselfs for other manufacturers. Wireless charging is seen as a premium feature, while headphone jack is seen as a budget feature. I unfortunately have gotten so used to both that I don't want to give them up. I love my wired headphones and my phone is pretty much always at 80% (Battery limiter) since it always charges when I'm at my desk. Right now I don't see a reason to upgrade my V30 but when that time comes I hope someone makes a similar phone (my biggest hope is Sony as they at least appear to be interested in headphones, now they just need to add wireless charging)

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Yeah, I unfortunately finally gave up the headphone jack. My phone broke and I couldn't find a good phone that had wireless charging, a headphone jack and a micro SD card slot. I went with the S20 FE since it had 2 of them. The budget galaxys seem have headphone and mcicro sd but not wireless charging. I almost bought an old S10 since that's the last galaxy with all three, but figured since it'd be losing update support soon I had better pick which feature to lose.

I'm kind of regretting it already. I don't have portable bluetooth headphones right now, had to order some and I kept wanting headphones over the weekend since they haven't arrived yet.

I was kind of leaning towards and LG, but everyone online was saying this was going to happen soon.

I recommend getting an es100 to pair with wired headphones

Genuine question: isn't a "Bluetooth" "DAC" an oxymoron? The only way I can imagine I'm getting the quality level I'd expect for $100-$200 is if I were sending it uncompressed audio. Which Bluetooth definitely doesn't have the bitrate for.

I use a NextDrive SpectraX USB-C DAC/AMP with my Android phones, and am pretty satisfied.

(I still demand and sometimes use the built-in headphone jack, mind you. The SpectraX obviously sounds better than that, though.)

These, the higher quality DAC, and the lack of software bloat are killer features for me. I'm not looking forward to replacing my G7.

I just got a G7 as well and I love it. really don't want to replace it either.

You can use GSM Arena's Phone Finder tool to search for phones with specific feature sets. In this case released 2019 or newer, 3.5 mm jack, and wireless charging[0]. As of now there are 26 phones that match those criteria and 10 of them are from LG. Three are from Huawei which means they are basically useless outside of China. Looking at high end devices you are left with the 3 year old Samsung S10[+], the Motorola Edge+ from last year, and Sony's Xperia 1 II. Sony has an announcement on the 14th where they will likely announce the Xperia 1 III[1]. I would look forward to that to see if it retains the headphone jack.

[0] https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2019&chk35mm=...

[1] https://www.techradar.com/news/sony-xperia-1-iii-gets-possib...

I'm currently in the research phase of switching back to a smartphone and have been using GSM Arena a lot for comparing specs, but didn't realize their search tool could be used like that. This is exactly what I needed to see right now, thank you!

> only manufacturer who makes phones with both wireless charging and a headphone jack

May be the you should mention "flagship" because there are many android mid-rangers with both headphone jack and wireless charging, but this too is not true because sony's flagship xperia 1 mark 2 still have both headphone jack and wireless charging + sd card support that the others have abandoned.

Samsung S10e has both. Best smartphone I ever owned (once you got rid of all the crapware using ADB).

Are there any services that will strip off bloatware using ADB for you? Would be happy to pay $100 for it to just reliably work out of the box then spend a bunch of time reading forums and worrying that something will break.

Just pick and choose from the list of bloatware: https://github.com/khlam/debloat-samsung-android

Honestly you don't need to remove anything. You can just hold the icon and uninstall virtually anything nowadays. There may be a few megabytes of shim left behind but that doesn't really matter and will never affect your life.

I have a list of packages that can be safely removed from modern Samsung phones (I'm not missing anything at least, updates still work). Email me at <my_profile_name>@imap.cc if you're interested

Agree, still typing with a V30 and rocking.

Amazing pictures and nice and slim look, working with no problems for years now.

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