I see a lot of people complaining that the Fairphone 6 doesn’t have an Aux jack.
Just use an adapter cable.
A 3.5mm Aux jack takes up a significant amount of space just to connect a few wires that could be connected through USB-C anyway, that space could be used for a bigger battery.
Even if there was a good enough reason to keep Aux it should be 2.5mm Aux and not the usual 3.5 as it does exactly the same thing but uses less space
But why remove it? Having the option is more convenient then having an adapter, reduces e-waste and you never have to play the “Where the hell did I leave the dongle?” game ever again! 2.5mm sounds great in theory but the vast majority of stuff you’d listen to music on uses 3.5mm.
Solid unpopular opinion.
This is technically becoming less and less true as time goes on. Keeping the 3.5mm port only reduces e-waste for buyers who already own 3.5mm accessories. Fewer and fewer of today’s younger generations own any 3.5mm devices at all, as more and more devices are unifying toward USB-C. In fact, fewer and fewer people today own any type of wired headphones.
The e-waste is now coming from the older, holdout consumers who are sticking to their 3.5mm accessories, as they’re the ones requiring extra dongles to keep their obsolesced technology functional.
And the non-3.5mm audio equipment is, itself, also e-waste with non replaceable batteries. It’s also generally lower quality than analog.
Exactly. The real e-waste is the millions of wireless headphones going into landfills each year when the non-replaceable batteries die.
Wires fail too. I’ve gone through way way more wired headphones than wireless.
Probably a majority of waste in this context is from people swapping devices or airlines giving shitty corded headphones on every flight.
Not in my experience. I still use BT headphones I bought in 2019, but all the wired headphones I had before that were dying every year with the same cable problems. The only long-lived wired headphones I had were expensive Sennheisers with thick coiled cable, but those were always destroying jack port on my phone with their fat lever of a connector.
Cables just shit for mobile application, they’re always in the way, and always getting yanked around.
Type c supports analog audio, you can have a wired earphones with type c connector, with exactly the same parts as a classic earphone, just not 3.5mm but type c connector.
Type c also supports digital connection for interesting applications where the dac is in the earphone.
Lmfao. The audiophile community would burn you at the stake.
I’m used to catching flac from those guys. ;)
That’s a good pun right there
The audiophile community is too busy masturbating to their golden powercables