5 Best Phones With Headphone Jacks (2025): Tested and Reviewed

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Other Phones to Consider

There are respective older phones from Motorola, HMD, and different brands with the headphone jack, but you should astir apt debar them if they launched earlier 2024. If nary of the supra options onslaught your fancy, present are immoderate others to consider, each tested by me.

Photograph: Julian Chokkattu

HMD Fusion for $300: HMD's Fusion (5/10, WIRED Review) is simply a decent-performing telephone that's a interaction excessively costly for what you get. The bundle enactment is lackluster, and the surface is dim. Its full schtick is the modular “Outfits” you tin connect to grow functionality, though the options are slim close present and are a small uninspired.

Moto G 2025 for $200: A measurement down from the Moto G Power 2025, this telephone doesn't person perks similar wireless charging, but it inactive has NFC to marque contactless payments and, of course, the headphone jack. Its show is simply a small stifling—you mightiness get frustrated arsenic apps instrumentality their clip to load—and its cameras are passable.

Nuu N20 for $114: I conscionable acceptable this telephone up, truthful I can't marque a due judgement telephone yet. So far, it's a small sluggish, but decently built considering it's conscionable implicit $100. It has a headphone jack, a microSD paper slot, and a 90-Hz LCD, but it lacks 5G connectivity.

Photograph: Julian Chokkattu

Motorola's Moto G Power 5G 2024 for $180 and Moto G Stylus 5G 2024 ($242): I usually don't urge previous-generation Motorola devices, but I deliberation these phones are inactive decent buys astatine their little prices (8/10, WIRED Recommends). They execute exceptionally good for the money—the Moto G Stylus is adjacent smoother with an OLED surface and has nicer cameras. They diagnostic perks similar wireless charging, NFC for contactless payments, and the headphone jack. The G Stylus adjacent has an integrated stylus to motion documents oregon doodle. Just beryllium alert that the update to Android 15 is the lone OS upgrade. They volition get information updates for 2 much years, and that's it.

HMD Vibe for $103: The 2 bully things astir this HMD telephone are its terms and performance—it runs OK erstwhile it's acceptable up and going (5/10, WIRED Review). Oh, and it has a headphone jack and microSD paper slot. Outside of that, this telephone volition not get immoderate Android updates (just 2 years of information updates), there's nary 5G connectivity, nary NFC for contactless payments, and adjacent nary fingerprint sensor.

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