The new fairphone 5 came out, it looks cool but the price is really, really high…

If it’s a phone that can really last 10 years it could be good, but is that true? Is it worth it? I could get the one with /e/os from Murena because i want a degoogled phone with a bootloader locked, but is it usable on a daily basis?

  • monke@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    There is a good reason to remove it. Especially for a company like fairphone. Why waste resources and money into making a redundant component (USB-C can do audio, also the majority of people have switched to wireless audio) when you’re trying to make a planet-conscious product?

    • highduc@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      There is no good faith argument that can be made for the removal of the headphone jack. Companies removed it to sell overpriced wireless headphones.
      They said it was due to size, but new phones are quite chunky these days so that’s not true. Waterproofing? Can be done, many phones have waterproofing and a headphone jack.
      Costs? Come on it’s a very simple, very old, plastic bit.
      And sustainability? “planet-conscious”? You must be kidding. It’s way better to use regular headphones than the wireless pieces of crap with batteries and an amplifier and a bluetooth receiver in them.

      • monke@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        Companies removed it to sell overpriced wireless headphones.

        Of course, I’m not denying this. That still doesn’t negate my point about audio jacks being redundant ports.

        It’s way better to use regular headphones than the wireless pieces of crap with batteries and an amplifier and a bluetooth receiver in them.

        Yes, and those regular headphones CAN be plugged into phones without headphone jack via the USB-C port