The Fairphone 6 no longer feels like a compromise (except in the US)

The Fairphone 6 is the most repairable yet, but also the most powerful, and the first I can easily recommend — though it’s a trickier sell for US buyers.

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I find it interesting how every post I see on Lemmy about Fairphone always has half of the comments complaining about the lack of a head home jack, but in real life I don’t know a single person that really laments it’s removal. All the people I personally know are fine with Bluetooth headphones. This is just such a loud minority, it’s impressive. I know that there is overlap between people that want a headphone jack and people that want a repairable phone, but still, I feel it’s way over-represented in the comments.

Since you asked, the lack of the headphone jack is the exact reason I have not upgraded my phone. I use my phone for music in my two cars and my home gym. None of those currently have Bluetooth.

Upgrading all 3 is just a matter of money of course - throw everything I have away & buy new. I see no reason to do that.

For the car, I use a tunai firefly ldac, it’s an incredibly simple and reliable device.

They’re fairly cheap at ~35$, and can be reused if you change cars. I ended up using mine to make my home stereo system wireless after my last car was replaced.

tunai firefly ldac

Ah, cool, I figured there must be a device out there. Sadly it doesn’t help me directly, as I’m already using a cassette adapter just to get up to a 3.5mm jack. Still bookmarking this though, never know when I’ll need it. Thanks!

You could plug a 1/8" or 3.5mm TRS coupler onto the end of the cassette adapter, then you would have an input port for the tunai firefly ldac’s aux out. If you were so inclined I guess, I have no horse in the race