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Fairphone 5 Launch (inv.tux.pizza)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world
 

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[–] Intralexical@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let us not forget that S7 and S7 Edge had headphone jack and were waterproof.

Not user-disassemblable, much less Lego-style modular, though. Easy to make something "waterproof" when you can just seal it shut with "gooey black adhesive".

I personally think the headphone jack is a wonderful truly universal and effectively completely open standard that's very good at what it does, and which furthermore is doubly useful as a generic power and analog signal delivery mechanism, while mandating its supposed successors like Bluetooth and USB-C needlessly and massively inflates the technical and material cost of just playing a dang sound file. You could get serviceable wired headphones that last forever for like $5 if you were lucky; Nowadays, you pay at least ten times that for fragile lithium batteries and circuitry that will break in a couple years, and I really don't like this trend of taking away capabilities for less robust alternatives while portraying it as innovating.

But I also actually use my Bluetooth headphones way more than my wired ones, and I appreciate the potential engineering and market challenges in what Fairphone is trying to do here.

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I meant the argument of removing 3.5mm to make it everything waterproof is not holding because there are phones out there which are perfectly waterproof with 3.5mm jack.