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Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence (www.ifixit.com)

submitted 10 months ago by DacoTaco@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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While they were happy with what the fairphone 4 brought to the table, they seem to like what was changed for the fairphone 5.
What are you guys' opinions on this? A welcome change? would you get one if your phone died within the next year?

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 0 points 10 months ago (5 children)

As soon as my FP 3 dies they will hopefully have a new phone with a headphone jack. In 10 years or so.

[–] Mo5560@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Honestly I'd probably buy a phone without a camera before I'd buy a phone without a headphone jack.

I was sold on the idea of a fairphone but that's a dealbreaker to me. I very briefly owned a phone without a headphone jack (borrowed from a friend while my current one was in repair), having to think of that stupid adapter all the time was hell.

[–] onion@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Can't you leave the adapter on the heatphone cable?

[–] Mo5560@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

I have 2 main problems with that:

My headphone cable is long and sometimes it gets tangled in all sorts of places. The adapters are small and flimsy, if I leave them on the cable I assume they'll break soon. I have no problems with a broken headphone cable as it is an easy and cheap fix. I don't think the adapters are seriously fixable tho.
Everything else uses a headphone jack everywhere. I have yet to see a use for USB-C to audio jack anywhere else. Which makes sense as USB is digital and audio is analog. I assume many people have no use for headphones outside of their phones, I am not one of those people.

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