• J4g2F
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    Nice I want to move to Fairphone, but the Fairphone 4 is not a upgrade. So I’m wanting on the Fairphone 5.

    I get tired of phone’s that are basically death after 3 years and are basically not user repairable.

  • StrangeWorrier@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    A few years ago I was on team keep the jack but at this point it’s not as necessary. USB C headphones exist, wireless headphones have gotten quite good, and if you use one pair of 3.5mm headphones if you keep a dongle on it it’s really not that inconvenient.

    • SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s an unusual thing to do since they promote themselves as a brand that sells repairable phones. When they removed the headphone jack, they conveniently released their version of wireless buds, which are known as not very repairable. Then they released the video stating they removed the jack because “it may break.” It’s just nonsense because they saw how much money tws market is making.

    • MrGeekman@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      It’s very off-brand for Fairphone to start selling non-repairable earbuds and then release a phone without a headphone jack. Fairphone bills itself as being fairer for its workers, its customers, and the planet. How is Fairphone being fair to either the customer or the planet if they’re making wireless headphones the most convenient option? Wouldn’t it be fairer to customers and the planet if customers could use the wired headphones that they already own? Plus, wireless headphones have an artificially short lifespan due to the batteries.

  • foggenbooty@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Well it have decent bands for Canada? That’s what’s always kept me from then in the past. That and they really pissed me off by dropping the headphone jack.

    • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yeah dropping the headphone jack is the single reason I didn’t buy this phone. If they didn’t it would’ve been a no-brainer since this literally doesn’t have any competition.

      Went with the Samsung XCover 6Pro instead

      • MrGeekman@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        For me, it was the headphone jack, cell service, and the warranty. I should probably mention that I’m in the US.

  • Fisch
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Looks really good. I don’t like that it doesn’t have a headphone jack but maybe using an adapter isn’t as bad as I imagine it to be.

  • lightrush@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    I wish they could pull the same number like the Fairphone 3 where the camera sensor was the same one used in the Pixels and Google Camera worked and produced the same spectacular photos Pixels produced.

  • XTL@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Let’s hope there’s a decent camera. That was a stumbling block for many, including me, with the previous model.