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No headphone jack. 100% dealbreaker and makes it seem like greenwashing. I might consider a Sony phone when my Pixel 5a either falls apart or becomes a smoldering crater, as they seem to support the custom ROM scene pretty well by open-sourcing their kernels.

I quite literally do not care about waterproofing or IP ratings or whatever because the few times I've gotten my phone almost seriously water damaged they've never died.

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Can you draw the line between how a lack of a niche specific feature makes it greenwashing? A feature, which btw, nearly every major manufacturer has abandoned.

I think it's pretty clear that most people do not care about a headphone jack, but do care about water resistance ratings.

My Pixel 5a has one and I think every single phone by Sony still has one. How is wanting to use audio equipment a niche? And even if so, you would expect the people buying a phone like this to want such a feature.

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