With five major OS ugrades and eight years of patches.

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

  • @Mannimarco@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33•1 year ago

    It makes no sense to me, their whole deal is sustainability, by removing the headphone jack it forces me to buy Bluetooth headphones that all have batteries in them and are presumably not up to Fairphone standards of sustainability.

    And saying we’re just following market trends sounds like a shitty explanation to me. I have the 3, I’ll use it for as long as it works but after that no Fairphone for me.

    • KaynEnglish
      13•1 year ago

      USB-C earbuds exist. No one is “forcing” you to do anything.

      • southsamuraiEnglish
        24•1 year ago

        Which is still having to buy a second set of earbuds/headphones when there’s no need for it. Or buy a separate dongle (a major pain in the ass over time).

        This is not “sustainability” friendly design.

      • @TwoCubed@feddit.deEnglish
        2•1 year ago
        • can’t charge the phone when the USB port is in use
        • can’t use the aux input of any external devices
        • can’t use the headphones with anything else
        • shitty experience as someone else here mentioned
        • …

        I like my Pixel 7 Pro but its also my first phone without a headphone jack and I hate it. Bluetooth is such a shitty standard and the USB dongles suck ass too. Why the fuck did they have to get rid of something so simple and practical…

    • @sudneo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Our starting point for design is longevity, which means making our devices more repairable, a very different approach to the electronics industry standard. To support maximum longevity and because of the IP rating, Fairphone 4 does not feature a headphone jack. In the end, it comes down to how we make a product that lasts for at least five years. We needed to eliminate as many vulnerabilities as possible, and the headphone jack is subject to dust and water ingress over time.

      Again, you might disagree, you might know better, I don’t know. But this is their motivation when it comes to longevity and hence sustainability. To me, it seems a reasonable idea: if the jack helps reducing the consumption of batteries in headphones but decreases the lifespan of the phones, it seems a bad tradeoff.