Any news of headphone jack?
I never understood why this is important to people. Is it a privacy thing with bluetooth? Is it an audiophile thing? A cost thing?
Its a conveniece thing for me. Sure I can and do currently use bluetooth, but im a super forgetful person and forgoting to charge the headset is a new pain that never happens with the audio jack
I get ya. Pairing and maintaining pairing is a pain in the ass too 🤬
In going to be honest, I don't get the vitriol about a physical audio jack any more. I used to agree but I bought a nice set of bluetooth earbuds on clearance years ago and never looked back. I'd rather have wireless charging than an audio jack if im going to give up physical space in the phone.
I get all the reasons too, battery life for the buds, losing them, built in tether.... But being forward with you all, most of those aren't actually issues for me.
I'd rather have wireless charging than an audio jack if im going to give up physical space in the phone.
These aren't mutually exclusive though. The Zenfone 10 managed to do it in a way smaller body for example
As much as I'd want to, I think it probably wont be inclided, judging from 2 points:
They didnt mention it. Audio jack would really be a convincing feature for the phone, it'd probably be one of the first things to mention, especially when they say that they removed the telephoto camera and thus they are already cutting features. They could make it look as a trade-off, removing a camera, but adding back the audio jack. Being silent about any possibility of it returning is probably on purpose to avoid extra flame.
It says that speakers, usb port, camera etc. are easily replaceable. An audio jack port would be very easily replaced too. Not mentioning probably means that it doesnt exist.
It's such a let down, they might be the best phone company and they still are bad. A huge part of the community complains about it and there's almost noone who would be bothered about having an audio jack port. Greed is making them kind of blind...
I appreciate it would be easier not to have to, but as you can get usb c to 3.5/aux converters, is that not an option?
imo no. Because:
there are dongles that allow both
Those are not standards compliant and potentially dangerous IIRC.
Yeah I'm not surprised
Nope, screw having another dongle, and screw the shitty cable-embedded DACs.
As an owner of FP3+ (bought it around the end of 2023) i start feeling a bit outdated))) The current phone suits my needs, though - so not gonna dump it.)
The fp3+ actually has the audio jack (which i think i've used only a couple of times, tbf)) - but i'm mostly interested how/whether Fairphone can make feature back-compatible models and/or modules.
I'm guessing, keeping compatibility (between different models/generations) is not quite possible, though.
It is quite ironic that your repairable phone only lasts you two years.
It has lasted two years so far and it is working without issues. Like I said, i'm not going to dump it just because a new model is released, and i keep using the FP3+.
The thing is, I'm still using my FP4 and it's going strong. I want to move to a newer, slimmer stronger device, but I can't justify it. Maybe Fairphone could get more people to upgrade if they had a return-to-resell practice. I could give them my FP4 and they'd take €100 off the FP6, then they'd resell the FP4 for €200 or something to someone who needs a phone.
Finally, I've been needing a new phone since like November but didn't want to get the FF5 because an FF6 was due so soon
Tbh, if Calyx will support this, I will have no reason not to buy it