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Since you asked, the lack of the headphone jack is the exact reason I have not upgraded my phone. I use my phone for music in my two cars and my home gym. None of those currently have Bluetooth.

Upgrading all 3 is just a matter of money of course - throw everything I have away & buy new. I see no reason to do that.

I hated the loss of the jack until I got lightning/usbc headphones. The microphone and sound controls are so good I honestly widh my steam deck had a second USB c slot rather than a headphone jack

I still use a wired headphone.

You can't beat the battery life of Infinity. Go non stop for a complete day and even or you forgot to charge, keep using the next day without any downtime.

For me, this is just one less thing to worry about.

Plus, I can use mine on flights instead of their sorry excuse of electronic waste.

They largely brought that on themselves. I mean obviously they did by removing the jack, but I think moreso by claiming to be better than the rest of the industry - and charging a premium for that difference.

When Samsung removed the jack it was annoying, and also very hypocritical as they had made fun of Apple for that just a year before, but it was to be expected from a corporation like that. These guys promised they weren't like that, and then did the same thing.

You can imagine it like this: if you see an ad by a pop star trying to sell you some bullshit product that doesn't work you'd think "that's shitty" and move on. But if you saw the same ad, but instead of the plain old pop star it was the members of Rage Against the Machine, you'd notice that a lot more. Everything they had done before would ring hollow, and every time someone would bring them up you'd remember that they're just posers looking to make a buck off of a demographic.

And that's how I feel about this phone. Just posing as something better.

I just want the option. Sure I use bluetooth 98% of the time, but when I'm in a car I'd rather hook in through the jack than the tooth. And when I'm out hiking I also like the jack option so I don't have to worry about my blutooth battery dying, bluetooth draining my phone faster, loosing an earbud in the leaves and so on.

You have been visited by the USB-C port. This post is now protected against headphone jack jihadists

cause you live in a part of the world, that has already gave up. including yourself.

The fairphone 5 actually did extremely well if you look at MKBHD's camera competition in 2024. If you don't care about having very over-saturated, over-sharpened, images that pop on social media, then it is actually very competitive (except for with the pixel beating everyone). Miles better than a HMD global or Samsung A-series camera. It looks better than the Samsung S series and daylight iPhone in many shots.

I think the 6 has a similar camera. It's never going to beat a DSLR, but it isn't meant to.

Well, the audio problem is not going to be worse with 2.0. USB 2.0 can deliver 480Mbps. Audio data rates are in Kbps. Even at 192kHz, 24 bui studio recordings it is only 4.6Mbps. Stereo audio is easy from a digital perspective. Also, USB 2.0 is MUCH less susceptible to bad hardware design, bad cables and dongles, and bad shielding. A single twisted pair at low speeds and minimal negotiation is much simpler and almost never drops. In a joystick design I did, I had a 20cm long untwisted pair in testing and it never dropped at all.

USB 3.0+ (and especially external display capabilities) is an order of magnitude more noise sensitive, impedance variation limited, and susceptible to bad design. If you use a non-twisted cable, it won't even negotiate USB 3.0 and will only work with 2.0.

That being said, USB 3.0+ for large file transfers and an external monitor desktop mode would be so much better, but I guess not many people use those.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250823135357/https://www.theverge.com/phones/762755/fairphone-6-review-no-longer-compromise

Best I could come across. Can’t access the other archive sites atm for some reason.

We are required to sing doot doot doot here, by law.

/e/OS is a pretty good de-Googled alternative, fully supported. :)

Agreed. Freedom from pricy expendable headphones is a thing. And converter-dongles are a ghetto stop-gap created to check boxes on a brochure.

The problem is a lot of people say they want small phones, but in practice almost nobody actually buys small phones. The reason companies don't make them, and many have tried, is they just don't sell. Fairphone is a pretty small company. They do not sell that many phones, so having multiple SKUs of the same phone would just tank their profitability.

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.