966616 - Position of headphone-jack

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Hardware, defect)

Description

[Julian Parker]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131205075310

Steps to reproduce:

I know that Mozilla isn't responsible for the hardware, but I have a suggestion for a huge usability-improvement, and maybe Mozilla can recommend this to all hardware-manufacturers that produce FirefoxOS-phones:

most cell-phones have their headphone-jack on the top of the device. Only few phones have it on the bottom. But the bottom-position is much better:

1. When you're looking at the display while using the headphone, the headphone-wire could be in front of the display and disturbing you. With the bottom-position this can't happen.

2. When you hold the phone normally and then put it into your trouser-pocket the normal movement is, that you turn the hand (and therewith the phone) by 180 degrees so that the bottom of the phone is the top in your pocket. With the headphone-jack at the bottom of the device you can do so, but when it is on the top of the device, you always have to separately spin the phone, if the wire shouldn't break at the botton of the pocket.

For these 2 reasons a headphone-jack at the bottom of the phone is much better that on the top. It should be recommended to all manufacturers, because the usability is not only the GUI, but the combination of hard- and software.

Comment 1

[BMO Automation]

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