Unpopular Opinion

I feel this is a very good unpopular opinion, as I think a lot of the annoyance about the fair phone not having a headphone jack is that they bill themselves as a sustainable phone maker who prides themselves as reducing waste and increasing repairability of their devices, something that dongles kinda fly in the face of from an ewaste perspective.

The same target group that they are aiming at generally likes stuff like expandable storage (so that they don't have to upgrade devices just to hold all their photos and stuff) and having a dead simple headphone jack so they can use one of the oldest standard ports in the world to use their headphones.

Since most newer phones have multiple days worth of battery life, I'm more than willing to sacrifice a few hours worth of runtime (maybe even a days worth) just to have a headphone jack. And you could say that I am in the minority of phone users, which is apparently true, however I'd argue I am pretty solidly in the target demographic for a fairphone, which I'm not getting due to the lack of a headphone jack. I instead, got a Sony Xperia 1 V (stupid name for a very nice phone) which offered a 3.5 mm, expandable storage, and decent repairability.

I agree, fwiw

S-tier

Anyone who claims they can hear the difference between an aux jack and USB-C is lying.

Cool...so I wanna listen to my headphones and charge my phone. Should I just get fucked then?

The ONLY compromise I would find acceptable, if is they had 2x usb-c ports that could handle data/audio, and one of them dedicated for charging...but guess what, that's more expensive for them compared to a 3.5mm

no

last time i bought a phone, the store had models with and without jack, i like choices, no reason to want them sell units with only the features i need

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Bah. Where is it? It was right here. I just have to

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find the fucking adapter. It was right in my bag in the side. Why

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is it not in that pocket? It's always there. Could

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it have fallen out? Into genpop where

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my gym clothes were? Why doesn't it fit in the winder with

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the earbuds anyway? I always lose it. Aw shit. It's Steve from

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confidential, and he is under 60 so he hates voicemail. But so do I so..

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I guess I'll have to wait until he can leave the secure area and turn on his phone and send me an SMS.

Been waiting a while, though. How long is this gonna take? I have to drive home before the sitter leaves.

Look. He's not calling me back. He's probably pissed because I was so insistent and now it looks like I flaked. And now, we've been idling in the parking lot for 10 minutes and so we gotta go before Laurie's mom comes.

Okay. Onto the freeway. Home in 30.

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Admittedly I was very stuck in the 'I hate phones not having Aux' camp because I preferred wired headphones for the longest time.

I was given some fairly poor wireless headphones and was pleasantly surprised by those, so I bought a good quality set myself. Now I've gotten so used to being untethered from my phone while listening to music, or podcasts, etc that I don't think I'd go back to wired headphones while mobile.

That just leaves stereo systems, portable speakers, vehicles and the like. All of those, instead of carrying around or leaving an aux-aux cable, swap that for a usb c to aux cable.

Or even one of these:

As OP said, more space for battery. It's also one less opening to waterproof. It took me a good long while, but I've come around to agree a headphone jack just isn't worth the extra space it takes up. It's not worthless, but there's better ways to use the space.

I want my preamp back too, goddammit. Take my rage vote for doing this right.

Upvote. Upvote for a 2.5mm too.