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The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

No headphone jack means fairphone now encourage Bluetooth earbuds and electronic waste.

They're dead to me.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I still don't get this level of rage. I just have a USB C adapter on the end of my ear buds, problem solved, one less physical port to have to replace as I keep my phones until they're dead dead.

I guess you could argue you need an extra cable on you to plug direct into a HiFi system, but I cant even remember the last time that was something I'd want to do.

Aldo in the case of a repairable phone and having replaced the USB on this fp4, I struggle to see where they would have fit an extra daughterboard for a 3.5mm jack to make it repairable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, the rage seems to usually stem from two misunderstandings:

It forces you to use Bluetooth headphones.
A 3.5mm jack is cheap and trivial to build into a phone, so there's little or no reason to not include it.

You already pointed out why neither of those are legitimate reasons. For 1 you just need a simple dongle, not new headphones. For 2, because the Fairphone is modular and repairable, it's not just the 3.5mm jack but also a custom replaceable daughterboard they'd have to develop and keep in stock.

Not having a 3.5mm jack is a minor inconvenience at most, I don't get the rage either.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

what phone do you use?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

A Nokia.

5 years of security updates. Cheap. Repairability commitment.

Headphone Jack Dual SIM

Very good camera.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Dont get me wrong, Im pissed about the removal of the headphone jack too. But its not really their fault, or to be more precise: its complicated This guys explains it quite well

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EAogtqyN22M&pp=ygUYZmFpcnBob25lIGhlYWRwaG9uZSBqYWNr

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Man I watched that whole video, it has nothing to do with the headphone jack. It's about how fairphone releases repair schematics. The title is clickbait, he still says "the removal of the headphone jack is still bullshit and I stand by that, but they sure do release schematics which is nice".

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