Imagine a fully working headphone with diaphragm and electronics perfectly fine but you have to throw the whole thing because it won't last minute because of an aging battery.
And the impact of this wasteful greedy manufacturing on climate change cannot be overstated.
And I don't know why all the hollow climate change talk is so shallow on action and regulations?
What can be done about it? Also, any headphones that let you replace batteries?
I don't need extensive water proofing. Just give me back old reliable 3.5mm jack
A couple of months ago, when shopping around for a new smartphone for my son, I made a point of considering only models that have the 3.5mm jack. It's getting very difficult to find newer models. I am not an Apple fan so I considered only Android-based phones.
Ironically, I also don't like any of the wired earphones I have used in the last 10 years. They all seem to break within a year or two.
Several months ago my latest set of wired earphones broke down, and I gave up and bought a bluetooth set, a JBL model with a wire connecting the earphones, so it's a bit like wired earphones. I don't like them either, the sound quality is off for some reason, and I don't like having to charge them, but the battery life is pretty much as advertised. We'll see how they'll hold up. I still feel kinda dirty for buying them. At least I'm still with my 6-year-old phone with the 3.5 mm jack.
I've only tried bluetooth headphones once and I regretted it. They didn't fit right and the little mp3 player was a bit finicky getting the two to pair. I can only assume the batteries are cheap and have a low charge cycle rating if any rating at all so I expect I will reach your conclusion sooner than later. So to answer your question, yes I am already sick of them. Not a total loss as I wont buy anything without a headphone jack.
I've since gone back to my cheap old school wired headphones and they are good enough for walking and jogging. If I need headphones at home I have some mid-cost-range wired over-ear headphones that sound decent. Not as good as my old Bose wired qc-15's but I am retired and no longer need to tune out the bull-pens. Most of the time I just rock the house with some old Cerwin-Vega's I bought from a coworker 26 years ago.
You’re not wrong, but you’re also focusing on a really small part of a huge mess.