With five major OS ugrades and eight years of patches.

Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one.

  • @LazhwardEnglish
    2•10 months ago

    Yeah, the rage seems to usually stem from two misunderstandings:

    1. It forces you to use Bluetooth headphones.
    2. A 3.5mm jack is cheap and trivial to build into a phone, so there’s little or no reason to not include it.

    You already pointed out why neither of those are legitimate reasons. For 1 you just need a simple dongle, not new headphones. For 2, because the Fairphone is modular and repairable, it’s not just the 3.5mm jack but also a custom replaceable daughterboard they’d have to develop and keep in stock.

    Not having a 3.5mm jack is a minor inconvenience at most, I don’t get the rage either.