I have been using Sony Xperia's since the Pixel 1 phased out the headphone jack, and the Xperias have had better 3.5mm jacks than even many dedicated DACs.

Physical SIMs being phased out seems to be primarily a US thing right now, but if that happens I'm just gonna stop using phones entirely.

If you want to glue a usb hub, DAC and card reader to your phone, go ahead, but I'd consider that a little bit inconvenient.

Seriously, the latency on wireless and usb-c headphones is so unpredictable that for lecture recording at hacker conferences they've now been banned for both live video/audio production and for video editing, with 3.5mm as the only option going forward.

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jasomill 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For what it's worth, Apple's cheap (<$10) 3.5" adapters tend to have excellent audio quality and should work with Android devices.

	▲	kuschku 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They're still significantly worse than the builtin 3.5mm ports Sony provides, and they're obviously still a major inconvenience.

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hexfish 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is no significant latency on usb-c DAC's. In fact most internal DAC's are just the same chip connected to an internal USB bus.

Bluetooth absolutely has a noticeable delay depending on the codec/profile.

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kuschku 15 hours ago | parent [-]

USB DACs themselves are fine, but many wireless headphones that also support USB-C run active processing with unpredictable latency.

	▲	grapheneos 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There are a lot of high quality tiny USB-C DACs available and also a decent set of direct USB-C headphone options.

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ysnp 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you know any top level mobile division people at Sony you could encourage them to reach out and commit to meeting GrapheneOS's requirements.