Fairphone 5 Review: Hopeful Innovation?
Fairphone 5 Review: Hopeful Innovation?
I reviewed the Fairphone 5: the sustainable, eco-friendly smartphone. Are its specifications and 8 years of Android updates worth the €700 price tag?
The review is a bit late, but it's fairly detailed and informative.
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Was actually looking into getting one myself. But the lack of a headphone jack is a deal breaker for me.
Same. I think it's worse because a green company should just have this IMO.
Coincidentally they also sell wireless headphones
I'm with you on wanting a headphone jack, but why should a green company specifically have one?
Wireless headphones have a battery that eventually will need to be replaced, which it usually is not designed for. Wired headphones dont have any inherently degrading components, so can (with care) be used for a very long time.
Because there might be a lot of wired headphones out there going unused because of no headphone jacks in newer phone models, contributing to ewaste.
I feel yah, but I was completely fed up looking for the golden pony boy with a 3.5mm jack. I'm team dongle now :-(.
I am reluctantly Team dongle now aswell.
I'd have liked to get something like a Sony that would fit a lot of my needs hardware wise (headphone jack, SD card reader, side mounted fingerprint scanner, and so on). But the shit software update policy and higher price made me just get a pixel 6a and make some compromises.
The only ones I've seen have 180° degree USB-C ports, I haven't really been thorough searching tbf..
I feel like they could pose damage to the charging port, if I were to use them with the phone on my pocket.
Probably just overthinking it but still 😂
Just get the apple usb-c to 3.5mm dongle, it's cheap and relatively powerful. They are 10 euro rond here and I have like 3 laying around (dongles suck and get lost ) or permanently coupled with the cable I use it with. 180 degree ports are probably not great in pocket, maybe if it rests on the port? port downwards?
Yeah, they're cheap enough Thanks for the suggestion!
I was also outraged when the audio jack disappeared from phones but now that they have quality wireless earbuds I really can't imagine going back to a wired headphone. The very last time I used a wired headphone I got it snagged on a cabinet pull and they painfully ripped from my ears. Never again. And even if you wanted wired, usb-c dongles are dirt cheap.
I can no longer understand the argument for an audio jack at this stage.
Primarily, wired headphones tend to be less disposable. Don't require batteries too.
I had to get wireless earbuds too, since my company requires me to use a device of their choosing, but we're talking personal preference here.
Sure, wireless BT has come a long way, no argument there, and it's not like I listen to FLACs on the go.
The thing with dongles is that they look fragile AF.
And I find it hard to justify the unnecessary use of batteries, it's just something else for me to forget, and also somewhat raises some environmental concerns.. idk
But that's only my POV on the matter, not a hard stance or anything