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Do you prefer the headphone jack to be at the top or at the bottom on a phone, and why? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 7 months ago by sarmale to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

All phones I've had, had the jack on the bottom where it's in the way of me holding the phone or placing the phone on something. I always wondered why it's not just at the top.

BTW just got a new phone (Oneplus) and I'm glad to have found one that has a jack at all

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I always wondered why it's not just at the top.

Couple reasons:

The charger port is also on the bottom, and if you have the phone plugged in and also feeding audio through an audio cable, you'd presumably want the wires to go the same way.
Usually people put their phones into their pockets upside down, since it will be the right way up when you pull it back out without having to reorient it in your hand. In older, more innocent days when we all listened to music with wired headphones, the port would be facing out of your pocket, so you could keep it wired in without fumbling to flip the phone the other way around when you take it back out to use it.