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The Fairphone 6 no longer feels like a compromise (except in the US) (www.theverge.com)

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[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 24 points 1 month ago

Still no 3.5 mm jack.

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 23 points 1 month ago

Is this a real complain or I'm too obtuse to understand this as a running joke?

I mean there have been usb c to 3.5 for quite a while now.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is a real complaint, and for me personally, it's a complete dealbreaker.

There have been converters, but I don't want to choose whether I want to charge my phone or listen to music (¿por qué no los dos?, i.e. "why not both?"). I also don't want to add up lines of dongles for something as primitive and actively used as a headphone jack.

3,5mm jack doesn't take much space and is used by many people, so why remove it?

For regular companies, the answer is clear: to sell you wireless devices often produced by the same companies, costing more.

But for Fairphone, a "fair" company that always shipped their phones with it, this seems like a betrayal. Failing to mention this giant point of concern is not great for a review article, either.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

It’s a real complaint to an extent; The real issue is that the jack itself isn’t enough, to be worth anything it needs a good DAC behind it and there have only been a handful of phones ever that have had that. So the jack complaint itself is mostly a meme as yeah, the USBC splitter option would sound just as good as most jacks built in.

On devices that really care they use the 6mm jack anyway.

[-] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Real complaint.

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

yeah so? If you need to regularly use one of those then that is a good argument for having it in the device itself

[-] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I bought 4 of these before I've found one that does not add background noise that hurts ears.

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