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Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US (www.wired.com)
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[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Yeah, no jack no thanks ...

Not a deal breaker for others but it is for me. Their rationale saying that the USB-C is more resilient than the jack is weird because I've never had the jack fail and even if it does isn't that why you're selling a repairable phone to me ...?

Anyways, I see they're selling earbuds so I'm going to assume that that's their main motivator.

[–] ArtificialLink@lemy.lol 2 points 17 hours ago

Whatever reason q company give for now headphone jack is always bs. Its plain and simple they wanna sell you their wireless earbuds.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’ve had several 3.5mm jacks fail. I’ve yet to have a USBC port fail, but I’ve also had fewer USBC ports and for fewer years.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh oh oh I can do this one.

6 USB-C port failures in my 1.75 years with the phone.

Fuck HMD Global (then Nokia brand) and their absolute trash USB ports.

[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 2 points 23 hours ago

6 USB-C port failures in my 1.75 years with the phone.

That's wild.

I had a micro USB charging port give me an issue once, but I've never had a program with a headphone jack or USBC port. Wow.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've had them both be problematic. Nothing deoxit can't fix.

Headphone jacks have a hell of a lot of leverage on that port. An IP68 headphone jack is honestly pretty bulky.

I'd rather have one. I also also like us to go back to phones that are 1cm+ thick and just fill it out with battery.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah it's pointless having a super thin phone if the camera array is still an inch thick