Lets be real here, you probably cannot afford a new phone if you have to cheap out with wired headphones/earbuds on a mobile device in 2023.
passive audio protection > active sound canceling. Unlike most people, I don't find losing earbuds and surprisingly discharged earbuds to be 'features'.
That is not correct. Please do not say that.
And both wired and wireless have their own convenience problems. But the wireless ones are more frustrating in my experience.
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Bluetooth usually introduces some pretty big delays to sound. Sometimes video players can synchronize themselves, but controls will have a weird lag even for audio-only applications and hopefully you don't want to do anything interactive.
And speaking of interactive, your typical bluetooth device will drop to horrendous quality if you switch into headset mode.
That said, since I changed over to a device without a headphone jack, it's never been a problem after maybe a month of adjustment. It's really just one more device added to my charging routine.
In other words, you're plugging expensive headphones into a mediocre driver.
I for example like to ride my bicycle with some earbuds, the cables help me to wrap it around my helmet strap so they are very tight in my ear, and I don't have to worry about losing an airpod when riding rough terrain.
I haven't found the same satisfaction with bluetooth buds. I had some Jabra's that were connected to each other with a cable, but then the receiver is in a location that somehow blocks bluetooth reception when the phone is in my back pocket.