Too bad they are chasing all the bad trends (notch, no audio jack, camera bump, flatness over battery size, growing size). That pretty much kills it for me.
Especially the audio jack is a hard sell when their mission statement is sustainability.
Especially the audio jack is a hard sell when their mission statement is sustainability.
Yeah, especially when they have a blurb on their preorder page about how they don't include earphones with the phone "for sustainability, so that you can re-use the ones you already have".
That's going to be difficult if I can't plug them in, no? I think your marketing team just accidentally that entire premise.
> A notable downside compared to previous Fairphones is that the Fairphone 4 no longer includes a 3.5mm headphone jack, a choice that feels at odds with the company’s otherwise customer-first approach. Fairphone tells me it made this decision in order to be able to offer an official IP rating for dust and water resistance, which was missing from the company’s previous phones. It’s only IP54, which means it’s protected from light splashes rather than full submersion, but that’s impressive in light of its removable rear cover and modular design.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/30/22700014/fairphone-4-rele...
wired headphones can literally last decades