We asked, you told us: In the Bluetooth vs dongles war, you’ve made a choice

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As the smartphone headphone jack slowly fades away, most individuals are confronted with two selections in the case of listening to music on their cellphone: Bluetooth audio or utilizing a dongle with wired headphones. Sure, there are USB-C headphones on the market, however who makes use of these?

We thought we’d discover out which aspect of the fence our customers put themselves on. Do they use Bluetooth audio completely or are they residing that #donglelife? Or are they taking part in each side and utilizing one or the opposite when wanted?

We ran a ballot on the matter each right here at Android Authority in addition to on our Twitter account. Let’s take a look at the outcomes!

Bluetooth audio or dongle audio?

Our ballot requested how folks with out headphone jacks hearken to music on their telephones and gave three alternatives: Bluetooth audio solely, utilizing a dongle with wired headphones solely, or each.

Here’s how the info breaks down. Notice how the outcomes are very related on each our website and on Twitter, main us to imagine it is a fairly correct illustration of our readers:

The information clearly exhibits {that a} majority of our readers are all-in with Bluetooth audio. Whether that’s an ideal set of over-ears or a smooth pair of true-wireless earbuds, most individuals who go to our website have ditched the cable.

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However, it’s fairly attention-grabbing what number of of our readers soar backwards and forwards from dongles to Bluetooth. While the variety of those that use each is sort of far off from these devoted to Bluetooth audio completely, there’s a a lot smaller hole there than we anticipated.

Let’s dig into a few of your feedback to get a greater have a look at what this information means.

Some of your feedback

Our readers take their audio expertise very significantly. There are so many individuals right here who refuse to purchase smartphones with out headphone jacks and have a lot to say in regards to the high quality of varied strains of Bluetooth audio merchandise, together with headphones.

With that in thoughts, there have been tons of feedback to dig by, each right here and on Twitter. Check out some selection feedback associated to our ballot beneath.

White Razor:
I’m high-quality with wi-fi if there’s no audio sync points. It’s nice on the gymnasium (been utilizing Aftershokz for years now, it’s nice), however after I’m sitting on the practice I default for the wired choice to observe movies.

Denis:
#DongleLife. I personal Bluetooth audio headsets however each of them have lag when gaming.

Roaduardo:
Decided to not die on the “I received’t purchase a cellphone and not using a headphone jack” hill. BT for my audio now. It wasn’t a very troublesome transition. Wires began to get on my nerves. Wireless life may be fairly nice.

@smantic86:
Thanks to the dongle I can at all times have nice old-school listening to music. Bluetooth after I don’t really feel the necessity to take the cellphone with me, particularly at dwelling.

While folks will probably at all times be passionate in regards to the headphone jack changing into a factor of the previous, it does seem that almost all of our readers have already transitioned to a post-headphone jack world. Who is aware of, although: possibly the jack will make a comeback and this selection received’t be crucial. I’m wondering what number of of us would keep on with Bluetooth audio if that have been to occur? Maybe that’s an concept for a future ballot!