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The Fairphone 6 no longer feels like a compromise (except in the US) (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not sure why, but BT experiences interference when in my pocket. The signal gets choppy when sections of my torso get in the way. Which is always when my phone is in my pocket. So I got USBC headphones/dongle.

On a bike ride, I noticed the audio was starting to disconnect. This happens often on rides and runs since the USBC plug sticks out a lot from the port and slowly wiggles loose. Except this time it wasn't loose. The leverage of the long plug on the short connector damaged the port. This never would have happened with a headphone jack. It has a strong connection that can rotate freely. Now I have a phone that can't charge or play music.

My next phone will be a sony xperia some they still have the jack and still allow the bootloader to be unlocked.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Are you sure it's not a problem specific to your headphones or your phone? Unless you've got some sort of prosthetics/pacemaker or something like that your torso should definitely not be causing interferences.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago

    I've had this issue for years across at least 3 different phones, and probably 4 different sets of headphones. Mix of buds and over ears. Different brands.

    I don't experience it much anymore, so I suspect its been fixed in more recent versions of Bluetooth.

    No pace maker, no prosthetics, and I'm average weight. The Bluetooth tech was just half baked when it came out. Better now but I can still replicate the issue with older headphones.

    I also experienced it a lot when walking around busy areas. Might be exacerbated by other nearby devices. No idea, but the point I'm trying to make is that removing the headphone jack from devices meant many people had to deal with this shit with no good alternative for years while the tech caught up

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This never would have happened with a headphone jack.

    I call shenanigans on this statement. This exact scenario with a 3.5 mm would have seen the copper inside the connector break from stress. As someone who went through the evolution of Walkman, discman and mp5 players, I can't count the amount of wires I destroyed just having them in my pocket when walking or riding. Even high end woven wires and shit, end up failing due to mechanical stress. It is just entropy. I've had more headphones in my life than I can recall, but somehow BT headphones have lasted me 3 years, more than any of the cheap wired headphones of the past. Only my expensive sannheisers have lived longer and that's partially due to the fact they have detachable wires. So I can change them when they start to wear.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Okay, "never would have happened" is an exaggerated statement. But you're talking about the headphone wires breaking. I'm talking about the USBC port on the phone itself breaking. I've never had a headphone jack PORT break. But Ive had 2 phones USBC ports fail from pressure on the plug.

    I would much rather have the wire on headphones fail instead of the port on the device itself.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago*

    If only there was some sort of technology we could use to completely avoid any risk of mechanical wear and tear from either the port or the wires! Alas, we are doomed as there no such wire absent tech! Doomed we are I say, for black magic it would be to go in life without copper, and a curse upon us from the wretched absent jack port!

    / s

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