We know when Fairphone will announce its sixth sustainable phone. We won't have to wait long, as the Fairphone 6 is expected this month. That's sooner than usual!
Should but to be honest and I will get flak for this but USB-C headphones are really good. I really want a bigger battery even if it’s swappable and a good update sched.
Your honour, this is conjecture! If we’re gonna play this game then I’ll point out that the “barely anyone” who would use such a feature might very much overlap the “barely anyone” who is the target market for a fairphone.
The point is that it can be very costly for a small company like FP to break the mold too much from the industry standards when designing the phone and ordering the parts and assembly. If FP had a bigger volume, they could do it.
Most low-end cheap phones still have a headphone jack, they wouldn’t do this if it was a cost burden.
A headphone jack plus a driver chip is literally pennies at their production scale. Making the hole in the housing and putting in a gasket after the fact would be more expensive than the headphone jack itself
They have custom bodies anyway due to their repairability. Changing the body mold to include the hole for the headphone jack is trivial as they already have to make holes for the antennas
“The standard” of the phone industry literally 5 years ago was that every phone had a headphone jack. Only after Samsung followed apple in 2019 with the note 10 did companies think for the coming years “I can make slightly more profit and sell my wireless earbuds if I remove it”
Guess what year Samsung put out their first wireless earbuds? 2019, the same year they removed the headphone jack
Guess what year Apple removed the headphone jack? The exact same time that they released their wireless earbuds.
Guess what fairphone put out the year they removed the headphone jack? Wireless earbuds.
It is, was, and always has been a money-grubbing ploy to sell wireless earbuds for greater profit. That is just the truth and there is no way to spin it that removes history that the only actual motivation behind it is to sell more wireless accessories.
Most low end phones use completely off the shelf parts. FP is trying to take control of design and materials as much as possible. If you want to do both, that becomes harder and costlier. That’s how China manufacturing works.
Should but to be honest and I will get flak for this but USB-C headphones are really good. I really want a bigger battery even if it’s swappable and a good update sched.
Now, get this: a phone that has both a USB port and a 3.5mm jack 🤯
Seems pointless to add a feature that barely anyone would use, that’s the reality.
Your honour, this is conjecture! If we’re gonna play this game then I’ll point out that the “barely anyone” who would use such a feature might very much overlap the “barely anyone” who is the target market for a fairphone.
The point is that it can be very costly for a small company like FP to break the mold too much from the industry standards when designing the phone and ordering the parts and assembly. If FP had a bigger volume, they could do it.
I’m sorry but this is a pure BS cop-out.
Most low-end cheap phones still have a headphone jack, they wouldn’t do this if it was a cost burden.
A headphone jack plus a driver chip is literally pennies at their production scale. Making the hole in the housing and putting in a gasket after the fact would be more expensive than the headphone jack itself
They have custom bodies anyway due to their repairability. Changing the body mold to include the hole for the headphone jack is trivial as they already have to make holes for the antennas
“The standard” of the phone industry literally 5 years ago was that every phone had a headphone jack. Only after Samsung followed apple in 2019 with the note 10 did companies think for the coming years “I can make slightly more profit and sell my wireless earbuds if I remove it”
Guess what year Samsung put out their first wireless earbuds? 2019, the same year they removed the headphone jack
Guess what year Apple removed the headphone jack? The exact same time that they released their wireless earbuds.
Guess what fairphone put out the year they removed the headphone jack? Wireless earbuds.
It is, was, and always has been a money-grubbing ploy to sell wireless earbuds for greater profit. That is just the truth and there is no way to spin it that removes history that the only actual motivation behind it is to sell more wireless accessories.
Most low end phones use completely off the shelf parts. FP is trying to take control of design and materials as much as possible. If you want to do both, that becomes harder and costlier. That’s how China manufacturing works.
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New entrants need to break the mould…or else they are a worse version of market leaders.
You’re arguing that fairphone of all companies won’t or can’t go against industry standards?
I just use a dap since phone 3.5mm jacks are built like shit and break when you listen to music while phone is in your jean pockets.
That way i always have phone or music battery.
That way i can actually store more than just music on my phone.