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Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US
(www.wired.com)
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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2026
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Yeah, no jack no thanks ...
Not a deal breaker for others but it is for me. Their rationale saying that the USB-C is more resilient than the jack is weird because I've never had the jack fail and even if it does isn't that why you're selling a repairable phone to me ...?
Anyways, I see they're selling earbuds so I'm going to assume that that's their main motivator.
Interesting, when I was still using wired headphones I've never had a jack survive the lifetime of the phone, and only on my Nexus 5 was I able to replace it
Whatever reason q company give for now headphone jack is always bs. Its plain and simple they wanna sell you their wireless earbuds.
I’ve had several 3.5mm jacks fail. I’ve yet to have a USBC port fail, but I’ve also had fewer USBC ports and for fewer years.
Oh oh oh I can do this one.
6 USB-C port failures in my 1.75 years with the phone.
Fuck HMD Global (then Nokia brand) and their absolute trash USB ports.
That's wild.
I had a micro USB charging port give me an issue once, but I've never had a program with a headphone jack or USBC port. Wow.
I've had them both be problematic. Nothing deoxit can't fix.
Headphone jacks have a hell of a lot of leverage on that port. An IP68 headphone jack is honestly pretty bulky.
I'd rather have one. I also also like us to go back to phones that are 1cm+ thick and just fill it out with battery.
Yeah it's pointless having a super thin phone if the camera array is still an inch thick