I never use wired headphones even though I have a jack in my phone. But I have never bought a phone without a jack and probably never will.

Ipersonally think it's user hostile to remove the jack and also goes directly agains the green profile Fairphone wants to have.

I posted this elsewhere but the tech specs for the Fairphone 6 say the following:

USB-C 2.0 (OTG capable) can be used to connect USB Sticks/SD-Cards/Audio Amplifier/Network-adapters directly

I was really looking forward to use this with a pair of display glasses, like the XREAL One Pro, but this seems like the Fairphone 6 might not support display output? That's sad. Especially since the Fairphone 5 had this in their tech specs:

USB-C 3.0 (OTG capable) can be used to connect USB Sticks/SD-Cards/display (also Android desktop mode)/Camera/Audio Amplifier/Network-adapters directly

But maybe it was not used enough?

The Sony form factor is the best on the market IMO. You can hold it in you hand and get more screen in the height.

600 euros? That's like 700 USD

Remind me again, wasn't like 80% of the American population on the verge of poverty and homelessness if a 500 USD emergency happened?

Who's benefiting from this?

People don’t want to pay for privacy. That’s the real problem with end users. Imagine if more people did so. What a world we could have. Nah. Let’s be cheap AF!

Ethically sourced, fair wages to workers, etc. Makes you wonder what a factory worker in china makes to allow for cheaper phones.

They are hardly even in the US market. Only via Murena with their e/OS/.

Interesting that they seem to be using a consumer grade Snapdragon chip this time, typically they used weird chips ment for industry applications if I'm not mistaken. Wonder what sparked the change, did Qualcomm start supporting their chips for longer?

Who in the US is buying midrange or flagship phones without a loan?

Ooo they sell these in the US?

Same US. EU gets the best stuff.

You can shoot RAW on your phone today.

Fuck these guys... Seriously. I bought a phone off of them hyped at the idea of the ethics. It didn't work on arrival. Over 3 months later and not one single reply to my helpdesk request (other than the Automated acknowledgement of receipt).

Unbelievably bad user experience, I went from hyped at the concept of reducing my production of electronic waste to beyond disappointed at a brutally bad user experience.

Then to make matters worse, it is difficult to source spare parts for the fairphone 4 (according to a friend of mine who owns one that he bought a while ago)... Like is that not the entire point of the phone, reduced consumption of new phones by supporting repairs. If you're going to stop producing the spares at least release the patents then.. if you really believe in the promoted ideals that you spout... Which they clearly do not.

It turns out that it's just another money hungry company hell bent on burning the planet down to see a line go up, as far as I'm concerned. All gaff to sell shite phones at higher prices.

Do not buy.

The sound quality on them blows no matter which you get.

They have adapters. But yeah, would be nice to have a slot directly integrated.

All I needed to know was when they released their BT earbuds just when the jack port got removed to figure out where their priorities are.

Probably yes.

And probably due to EU mandating new phones to be supported for longer.

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Locking privacy behind a paywall? Sounds like a nightmare.

That’s the real problem with end users.

The real problem with end users is that they buy according to whatever needs corpos inject via advertising.

This is nice for Europe I guess, and I want to like the fairphone, but unfortunately it's not viable for me.

Besides basic phone features and the ability to run Android apps I have 3 requirements, 2 of which the fairphone fails at. I need it to be usable in the US on my phone carrier. I need to be able to use Google Pay or another mobile payment alternative (that's accepted in most stores). Finally it needs to have at least a 48 hour battery life.

Fairphone unfortunately doesn't work in the US with most carriers, and the one that kills not only it but all the de-googled phones, it doesn't support mobile payment of any kind. I've done a ton of research trying to find some kind of fix for that second point because I'd gladly use something like GrapheneOS if I could, but every time the answer I come to is it's just not possible.

The final assembly is only part of the story though. As far as I understand, fairphone does actually try to check their supply chain to ensure the raw materials are (more) ethically sourced. As opposed to those optimizing for profit, who will intentionally look the other way.