What they did with the wireless earbuds is amazing. User replaceable batteries on an earbud is something I hadn’t seen before. And definitely kudos to them for doing that.
But skipping on the audio jack, which could have saved so much e waste too, was such a bad take.
They did the earbuds because they can charge you 100€ for them, and then you’re essentially locked to their battery subscription for when the batteries eventually fail every year. It was just a coincidence that they had just removed the audio jack before releasing them.
And even if you have usb c headphones now you have to replace the usb hub every year from wear and tear, and they get huge profit margin from it as it’s an Usb2.0
Sony Xperia devices have audio jacks + good support for custom ROMs usually. They don’t have the Fairphone bits of repairability and modularity though.
Noted, thanks for the recommendation. I’ll take what I can get. I want a phone that can run pmos well enough for daily driving, so I’m currently waiting to see what gets done with this new (much needed) push for mainline linux on phones. I’ll definitely keep an eye on sony’s phones, I’ve heard many good things about them.
AFAIK it depends on the adapter, some phones have an inbuilt DAC and literally just use pins in the USB-C port for headphones, which means the dongle is literally just wires.
Other phones don’t have that and require the dongle to have its own DAC.
You probably used a simple adapter on a phone which didn’t have those headphone lines in the USB-C port.
No mention of adding the audio jack back. Sad, because it would be a solid phone with one.
Also, imo, it’s a huge miss when marketing for less e waste
What they did with the wireless earbuds is amazing. User replaceable batteries on an earbud is something I hadn’t seen before. And definitely kudos to them for doing that.
But skipping on the audio jack, which could have saved so much e waste too, was such a bad take.
They did the earbuds because they can charge you 100€ for them, and then you’re essentially locked to their battery subscription for when the batteries eventually fail every year. It was just a coincidence that they had just removed the audio jack before releasing them.
And even if you have usb c headphones now you have to replace the usb hub every year from wear and tear, and they get huge profit margin from it as it’s an Usb2.0
Sony Xperia devices have audio jacks + good support for custom ROMs usually. They don’t have the Fairphone bits of repairability and modularity though.
The upcoming Commodore flip phone is going to have an audio jack with an audiophile (whatever that means) DAC.
https://commodore.net/callback/
Noted, thanks for the recommendation. I’ll take what I can get. I want a phone that can run pmos well enough for daily driving, so I’m currently waiting to see what gets done with this new (much needed) push for mainline linux on phones. I’ll definitely keep an eye on sony’s phones, I’ve heard many good things about them.
You can always just use a usb-c to 3.5mm.
no charging then
That doesn’t work on other phones. I’ve tried.
AFAIK it depends on the adapter, some phones have an inbuilt DAC and literally just use pins in the USB-C port for headphones, which means the dongle is literally just wires.
Other phones don’t have that and require the dongle to have its own DAC.
You probably used a simple adapter on a phone which didn’t have those headphone lines in the USB-C port.