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Nobilmantis@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

No headphones jack.

Most people use bluetooth devices nowadays. Few have wired headphones, which they can still use by using a €2 adapter that you just leave plugged to them all the time. Then there is a 0,1% that complains on the internet demanding that phone companies keep a extra hole on their devices for a specific purpose another hole can already do. Oh and HMD phones don’t have it either, at least for what i could find.

More repairable

They seem about the same (glass, back, speaker, battery, port), but on the ff5 you can replace the cameras as well.

more flexible

Tf does that mean? You can bend it?

long term support and updates.

Liar? Fairphones have like 8 years of security updates and major android version upgrades. HMD gives like 3 years on their latest devices… What are you talking about?

Cheaper too.

I’ll give you that, but it really ends there.

HMD phones are not a bad choice at all but if the affordability isn’t first in the list I don’t see how they would make a better purchase over a Fairphone.

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ISOmorph@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I don’t know anything about HMD so I can’t add to that. However I’d like to correct you regarding the headphone jack. The people that like it so much are generally privacy enthusiasts. Leaving your Bluetooth on makes you easily trackable. Using USB-C headphones helps in that regard but expediates wear and tear on the port by a lot and often makes the phone unusable a lot quicker. Audio jacks generally have very low wear and tear. Hope that helps you understand we’re not crazed evangilists hanging on to the past for the sake of it.

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- desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  having only one battery that needs to be charged, one way to get the headphones disconnected (unplugging), and the greatly reduced battery drain by not needing Bluetooth on should be good enough reasons for 3.5mm jacks to stay.
  
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- Lazhward@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  expediates wear and tear on the port by a lot
  
  How much is a lot? And good thing the usb-c port is a $15 user replaceable part then. Also dongles with two connectors exist if you specifically want to charge and use headphones at the same time.
  
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  - DNU@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    so everybody who wants to use 3.5mm headphones on phones should just replace their port every quarter? lmao
    
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    Lazhward@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Every quarter? This is why I asked what was meant by ‘a lot’. If you’re going to claim that the extra wear caused would be this extreme I’d like for that to be at least somewhat substantiated.
    
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AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Another hole can carry analogue audio? I think you’re referring to a USB port when you say “another hole can do the same job”, but obviously it can’t carry analogue audio. You need an external DAC to convert the digital audio it can output, to analogue. (The phone already has an internal DAC so this is dumb)

And then of course you run into the issue of being unable to use it while the phone is charging because you have 1 port for 2 different jobs

Not all of us like the idea of wireless earphones, there are still many who prefer to spend good money on nice IEMs or headphones that don’t have to be charged to work, rather than overly expensive, subpar wireless options that will inevitably turn into e-waste when the batteries can no longer hold a charge.

Not to mention the ubiquity of the 6.5mm/3.5mm jack, this is standard across every piece of music gear you can think of from synthesizers to electronic drum kits to guitars, pedals, and interfaces.

You certainly don’t walk into a recording studio and find USB C ports to plug into

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DNU@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
idc about hmd, but usbc for audio is just shit. Ive tried various setups, I have a dac for phones, i have iems with usbc and yet the port is just not constructed for usage on the go where i preferably use in ears. So in total: aux got taken, instead we use the charging port and if we actually do that the ports gonna be dead in a year maximum if you havent aldready ripped apart your in ears because of these darn constant disconnects. I do have wiems that are more expensive than my iems and yet bluetooth audio transmission still sucks compared to cables and I long for the moment where i finally have a phone with aux again so my ears dont have to constantly bleed (wildly exaggerated obv). Last time i almost bought a Sony because of aux, but theyre just way too expensive for the software support they deliver. I just hope in a few years time theres a value phone built for me :).

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