I refused to give up my headphone jack, so for my latest phone I switched to the Moto 5g Stylus

It’s an OK phone. It often has performance issues, but the battery life is massive and I expanded to storage to nearly 500Gb. The phone is long though - they increased the screen size and avoided increasing the width, so it’s just comically tall. That’s good for scenarios when you want to see more of the screen while keeping the keyboard out and for split screen apps and games, but mostly it’s a burden because you can’t effectively use the phone one handed. For its price, I’d say it’s probably worth at least a year or two of service, but I find myself wanting more power again like the Pixel 3a (my last phone).

I’m interested in a couple of the phones they listed in the article, but definitely will have to double check performance in the future. It’s the most annoying part of this phone

Oh one pro tip for the 5g stylus - the camera is good, but only when using their “Ultra-rez” mode instead of the default mode, and the preview looks a lot worse than the actual picture. The picture will preview as blurry and pixelated while you’re taking it, but once processed it will look great

This might controversial, but I don’t miss the headphone jack. Bluetooth has come far and as long as you’re not listening with audiophile level headphones + lossless audio most people won’t hear an actual difference between wired and wireless audio. Not having the cable dangling around is so muc better, at least for over-ear headphones.

Using high quality wired IEMs is the only reason I would maybe want a headphone jack, but the currently popular form factor for IEMs just doesn’t stay in my ears (probably because my ear canal is super curved).