The Essential Phone doesn’t consider a headphone jack essential

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Priced at $699 and built out of titanium and ceramic, Andy Rubin’s Essential Phone is by all accounts a pure premium device. Far from the modest implications of its name, this is a top-spec smartphone with top-tier aspirations. And yet, it doesn’t have a headphone jack. I know what you might be thinking: neither does the iPhone 7, and that phone’s helped Apple to record-breaking sales. But the problem with that reasoning is that most things that are true about the iPhone are true only of the iPhone and should not be treated as universal truths about all smartphones.

Let’s review the fates of the Android companies that have ditched the headphone jack over the past year or so. LeEco was among the first, and it provided its president of…

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