It's a Creative Zen Stone that I got as a Christmas gift in 2008. I just found it in a drawer, and it's still holding charge. The last thing I put on it was The Life And Times Of Scrooge by Tuomas Holopainen, in 2015 -- I don't know why, at that time I definitely had a smartphone.
It has a headphone jack, which immediately makes it better than every smartphone produced in the last several years, and it can easily drive my 80-ohm Beyerdynamic. The audio quality is as good as one can expect. The only drawback is that it only holds 1GB... my old CD rips had to be compressed to hell and back.
Let me reiterate that this has been sitting untouched for a decade and was immediately ready for action. No login, no annoying software updates, expired subscription, or remote bricking by the manufacturer. Eat my shorts, Spotify Car Thing.
P.s. A Lifetime Of Adventure is a banger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwSVOo5K_k
Any budget phone has them, xiaomi, samsung, oppo, really only "high end" phones dont.
I wanted a Samsung for my most recent phone purchase but I ended up going with Sony because it's the only one on the market with a jack. Samsung hasn't had jacks for years, which is a bummer because I miss my Samsung phone. They're just somehow more responsive and easier to use.
Which Samsung model are you claiming had a jack? I could be wrong.
Galaxy A series, now im doing some research and am not 100% sure, but up to last gen (a 24), they did have them.