There are wireless earbuds with repairable batteries. Just not Fairbuds, which have soldered batteries (LOL!)
“we want to reduce e-waste by forcing everyone to throw out their wired headphones and buy a new set of wireless ones every couple of years when the battery goes dead”
The hypocrisy enrages me here
iopq@lemmy.world 11 months ago
bitwolf@lemmy.one 11 months ago
forcing everyone to use a high quality 9$ dongle DAC with their wired headphones
Ftfy
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Which you have to carry around separately, which comes at a convenience cost and so you’re more likely to just go for wireless ones (I know I have after the headphone jack wore out in my phone)
And also not charge at the same time unless you get a well shielded dac dongle with a usb female which also allows charging and supports thunderbolt, which is another piece of future e-waste that you’ll have to carry around in addition to your phone and 3.5mm only dongle, as the unconnected wire will get caught on your hand if you try to use your phone
Your idea of a fix makes as much sense as apple calling selling you 90% of a new device fixing your device, it’s a mindset we need to get away from
bitwolf@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Usually I keep my nice head phones come with a case. The dongle fits inside.
Unfortunately my previous phone’s headphone jack was underpowered and didn’t work well with my headphones so I used to dongle despite having a jack.
This is the unfortunate reality with most phones that do include the headphone jack (RIP LG)
xnileap@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve been using the same pair of Sony XB50AP wired headphones for over 7 years now. It works fine (although not great) even after going through couple washing machine cycles. Meanwhile my wireless WH1000XM3 broke after 2 years of use.
Also I own an Android with no headphone jack, so I have to use a USB-C to 3.5mm dongle. And I can feel it’s slowly destroying the type C port’s connectors on my phone everytime I plug the dongle in, making the headphone connection sometimes not even recognizeable on my phone.
iopq@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The WH-1000XM3 have repairable batteries. You can buy them online, and pop them in after undoing two screws
xnileap@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thanks for the headsup but mine broke because of something wrong inside the device, probably something wrong with the pcb (might be water corrosion or something). Plus the headband on WH1000XM3 is just so easy to broke. I’ve replace both side of the headband just because it’s designed very poorly.