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Fairphone CEO says it’s a ‘myth’ that sustainable tech has to cost more and be of lower quality: ‘Neither is needed’ (www.techradar.com)

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[-] Akasazh@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Now you can't listen and charge your phone at the same time.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To me anyway, that's basically a non-factor these days:

From the factory, phones generally have much longer battery lives than when 3.5 mm jacks thrived. For example (bit of an outlier), my S23 Ultra lasts me two days from 80%. And speaking of that, the battery life capacity over time is less bad now thanks to e.g. techniques like stopping charging early.
Phones charge much faster now than, again, when 3.5 mm jacks thrived. 10 minutes of charging could easily last me through several hours.
Wireless charging is a standard feature of modern smartphones, and it's even decently fast (I've usually seen 15W).

So to me anyway, this conflict would arise and be frustrating in the case that: "Oh shit, I used my phone like crazy yesterday and forgot to charge it overnight. It's so dire that I need to charge it now when I want to listen to something, and for some reason I can't 1) just charge it wirelessly, 2) listen without headphones for 10-ish minutes, 3) listen on another device if I'm using/near one, or 4) go find something to do other than listen to music on my phone for the 10 minutes it takes my phone to charge another 20%."

TL;DR: If you're absent-minded as hell, chronically on your phone listening to music etc., unwilling to think even slightly outside the box, and impatient to the level of a small child, then USB-C headphones will be a devastating downgrade.

[-] Akasazh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I like to listen to podcasts in bed, often falling asleep during. Therefore wireless ones are not feasible as they get lost.

I like to be able to charge my phone at the same time, as it's a long period where I don't use the thing and it's in one place.

Could this be solved attentively? Sure, but changing the thing that is perfectly fine will force me to change my routine, against which I'm naturally hesitant.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Therefore wireless ones are not feasible as they get lost.

Samsung earbuds have a detection mode; you can make them make a noise if they're out of the case, and GPS will tell you the address if you forget them somewhere.

They don't help you if you left them inside the case in your house, but don't know where.

[-] Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

It's not that they cannot be found, when I want to turn over on my other side, I want to switch buds, with the wired ones they are connected and I can find them blindly.

My spouse won't appreciate me hunting after beeping things in the middle of the night.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, unless your headphone cable is very short and/or the nearest hard, flat surface is very far, I don't see any reason why wireless charging couldn't work as an out-of-the-box solution for this. Some phones nowadays even take 25W wirelessly, which is insane, but the seemingly standard 15W will still trivially top you off overnight.

We'll take a worst-case scenario where you have an Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro (5800 mAh; very high), a 15W wireless charger, a phone that we'll just call dead and assume you're still listening to podcasts somehow for simplicity, you're not capping at e.g. 80% to protect the battery, and you're getting five hours of sleep because you were up watching a 3-hour alt history video essay theorizing what the Anglo-Zanzibar War would've looked like if both sides had nukes.

You're talking basically like 30 Wh. So when you wake up in the middle of the night three hours later from chronic insomnia, your phone's fully charged and there to tempt you away from falling back asleep.

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