If you want a smartphone with a long life, Fairphone is leading the industry.

Fairphone is unique in the world of smartphones. It’s pretty much the only company trying to build a sustainable device that isn’t glued together and hostile to the repair community. Today, Fairphone is announcing a brand-new flagship: the Fairphone 4, which brings an updated design and better specs while still shipping with all the modularity you would expect.

  • @onlooker@lemmy.ml
    4•3 years ago

    Looks cool, but I’m not a fan of the notch and the reason for the removal of the 3.5" jack is spotty at best:

    Fairphone calls the removal of the 3.5mm jack ‘a difficult decision’ in an explanation. “At the end of the day, it’s about making a product that will last five years. We had to remove as many vulnerable parts as possible, and a 3.5mm jack gets all sorts of dust over time. Plus, the phone with an audio jack was too wide. We don’t want users to throw away their working wired headphones and we’re making sure that a USB-C adapter is available for purchase through our sales channels.”

    Source via lingva.ml

    So let me get this straight: 3.5" jacks fill up with dust, but USB-C ports don’t? At least the Fairphone 3/3+ has one, I guess.

    • Ephera
      3•3 years ago

      I mean, they need a USB-C port anyways.
      But yeah, you can just take a needle and scoop out the dust from the headphone jack.

      • @pinknoise@lemmy.ml
        1•3 years ago

        But yeah, you can just take a needle and scoop out the dust from the headphone jack.

        With usb-c this works because it’s shallow and closed off. 3.5mm jacks have springy contacts that need a bit more room so you can’t really reach everything. Also many smd sockets don’t have sealed bodys so maybe they were also hard to source.