Good, but what about my 3.5 mm jack?
You need to drill a 3.5mm hole to get it
What about it ?
Its on a USB dongle.
Don’t think about that. Buy their wireless earbuds instead.
Is this Innovation™?
They don’t have wireless earbuds anymore and haven’t for quite a while.
You must be mistaken. They stopped selling and supporting those earbuds right after they came out.
Buy their wireless headphones instead. They promise that the same thing won’t happen with those!
You need to let it go.
I’d rather let the fairphone go.
I like having options and the versatility personally 😁
The 3.5mm jack can also be used to record video audio with a much better microphone, attach a HW infrared blaster, or use your device as a crude oscilloscope im a pinch with appropriate software
The more common use case is people with existing wired headphones - there’s honestly no need to cast aside perfectly good cans for no reason. Yes USB-C DACs exist, but IMO that’s a completely manufactured expense and inconvenience, considering almost all phones still have the 3.5mm dac and amplifier components physically present on the mainboard: only now you must purchase a dongle to access the output via passthrough, or purchase a third party dongle that includes its own DAC.
My pain point though is the fact that users with wired headphones are now being forced to induce more usage cycles on a single connector port (which is not always economically repairable on modern devices), and all the avoidable e-waste produced by these things when the unreplaceable, consumable batteries give up the ghost after two years of ownership
I cant, wireless earbuds suck ass.
Also running around with Bluetooth enabled on your phone is a privacy hazard.
That’s why i use USB-C Earbuds.
Seriously, thry’re a great alternative.
I have a headband that has Bluetooth headphones in them can’t stand in the ear ear buds
You don’t.
NEVER
This sounds like very bad news imo.
To be more than a blip on the radar, Fairphone needs to go way past 80% of customer needs. Hendriks says people want to make a contribution (to sustainability), but they don’t want to sacrifice everything else in the process.
This sounds like the new CEO wants to sacrifice sustainability for popularity. The current gen fairphones are everything they need to be imo. There is barely a need for improvements on the hardware side and its supported very well by custom roms.
To achieve that feat, Fairphone is more closely collaborating with Google and Qualcomm.
This could mean anything but i dont think collaborating closely with google is what Fairphones need more of tbh.
Google Is a chip manufacturer like Qualcomm
No. They do design work for chips but they do not have any fabs to actually make chips. Samsung and in the future TSMC are the ones actually making the chips for google.
But yeah maybe they just want some advice on SoC design. The Pixel phones do have decent hardware i must admit.
While I agree it seems unlikely that they’d use google designed chips I don’t think Qualcomm has their own fabs either.
I think it could be because Google may offer them quite a bit longer hardware support. They had to go with some industrial SoC for the FP5 to get Qualcomm to offer even a half decent hardware support cycle.
I hope this means a US release is soon
You can technically get a Fairphone 4 in the US. Unfortunately, it’s only supported by T-Mobile’s network.
This awesome if its possible. The article said they would try reduce costs by closer partnerships with Google and Qualcomm but I don’t think hat will get them to reduce their prices that drastically. I hope I’m wrong though!
I really need a better option in the US. I use phones I fix from relatives who discard them, but it’s not exactly fun prying out a glued in spicy pillow battery every time (plus fully replacing the glass because it’s practically designed to shatter when opened). I looked into Fairphone but those expanded markets don’t seem to include mine.
Are they bringing back the headphone jack?
My Nokia should last until 2027 with updates but it would be nice to know my options if it breaks.
This time they removed the sdcard. That should answer your question.
