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Fairphone unveils Fairbuds 2 with replaceable battery, Sony LDAC and ANC (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] 4 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I used to share this opinion but grew out of it tbh.

From an engineering perspective headphone jacks are: a) a huge waste of space for no real functionality as the function is integrated in USB-C or lightning.

b) an unnecessary weak point in water- and dustproofing.

If you need an audio jack, specialised models still have it or a dedicated android audio player (fiio make great ones) will serve you better.

I say this as an audiophile btw.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    There were water- and dustproofed jacks.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    There are, but they're even more bulky, and they are waterproof in the sense that the water wouldn't damage the device, but the port itself is still vulnerable, and very much so. Unless it has a flap, but no regular phone used that ever.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    I wouldn't miss the audio jack, if phones had two usb-c ports, one for charging and one for audio. But all adapter I tried that allowed charging the phone while listening to audio where very flimsy and/or unhandy.

    I just would like not every device to have is own built-in or custom battery. Them being changeable is good, but I would also love if we start having a smaller set of standardized formats.

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