Are we not well past a point where the Fairphone 6's DAC for the 3.5 mm jack would be better for audio quality than Bluetooth 5.4 with aptX Adaptive/LDAC? When headphone jacks were being removed from phones around the mid-2010s, it was ridiculous, greedy, and premature. Now, though? I find wireless earbuds vastly nicer and more convenient for phones, and I would only go with wired, say, on a vacation where I can use a cheap $20 junk drawer pair and not mourn them if they get lost somewhere – at which point I can just use a dongle for a weekend or whatever.

I still always want a microSD card slot, but I'd prefer that my phone not have a headphone jack at this point. I think the people who still mourn the loss of the 3.5 mm jack are a vastly smaller minority than they think they are. Which is fine; you're still welcome as a consumer to buy or not buy a phone based off that. But I also think that nagging Fairphone over the removal of the 3.5 mm jack with the Fairphone 4 in 2021 is "old man yelling at clouds" territory.

Sorry, the phone doesn't have a headphone jack?

Every time someone mentions the headphone jack, comes a legion of people defending the corporations. People will really accept anything they do and bully the ones who don't want to submit. That's impressive! And we're in a place with higher-than-average corporation haters.

It's even more impressive when we think about how Bluetooth earphone users don't gain anything by removing the jack, neither lose anything by keeping it. It literally doesn't affect them, but heavily affects anyone who uses wired phones or other stuff. People simply use their energy against others, in favor of corporations for absolutely no benefits for them, but simply for fucking the other people. I can't understand this behavior.

We need a return the headphone jack movement, it makes me glad I still use my pixel 3a for Ubuntu Touch.

Yeah I'm still stuck with my LG V30 and refuse to upgrade because the DAC + Jack is soo good.

Because they cannot bulk buy parts and hire engineers like how the larger manufacturers can.

A lot of it is also economies of scale and full control of the supply chain. The unethical behavior is to squeeze as much profit as possible.

Each new Fairphone is increasingly more custom whereas the first ones used more stock parts. When you order elections from China, manufacturers might refuse to make custom parts for a small room, or charge a lot for it.

Is the Fairphone 6 really significantly more expensive still?

cause its marketed towards richer westeners who cant even unlock a phone

Also the best path for sustainability is to NOT BUY A NEW PHONE EVERY 2-3 YEARS.

Don't buy fairphone. Try to run your current phone for 7 more years.

For me Fairphone has been good. I bought my fp3 on release in 2019 for about 400 euro and it is still going strong today, 6 years later (I am in fact using it right now)

Not to say that there haven't been software problems at all but it has not been that bad and was fixed over time.

Imagine dying

I gotta say, you had me until you cranked it to 11.

Not being able to call with a phone after an OS update is definitely a deal breaker. But "if I don't have my phone on me, I'll die" is the kind of hyperbole that has me doubt your entire testimonial.

Too bad they don't come with an unlockable bootloader

Came from Pixel 6 and picked up a fairphone 6 last week. The camera is sadly not as good but everything else is great (so far).

I can see I'm being down voted so let me explain in more detail. There is a serious problem in the industry where failure rates are not being considered in regards to how environmentally sound a device is. Some manufacturers have historically very low failure rates and while others are very high.

There needs to be a lot more visibility of this as a high repair rate will absolutely kill any positive environmental impact these phones have. So tell us what you're repair rates are.

Of course, if you genuinely want to help the environment stop getting new phones or buy secondhand.