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Is the fairphone really worth it? (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago by dontblink@feddit.it to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The new fairphone 5 came out, it looks cool but the price is really, really high..

If it's a phone that can really last 10 years it could be good, but is that true? Is it worth it? I could get the one with /e/os from Murena because i want a degoogled phone with a bootloader locked, but is it usable on a daily basis?

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[–] d3Xt3r 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Online polls on enthusiast sites like android police very rarely mean anything in regards to the real world.

Which is why I've also listed a poll from makeuseof.com, which isn't an enthusiast site. Also, as I mentioned, the Fairphone is a enthusiast phone in itself - just ask any normal person if they've heard of it - your answer would be a resounding "no".

Just go outside in public and count the people using AirPods alone vs wired headphones and you’ll see the reality is that people use wireless headphones more.

As I said before, one could be a wireless user as well as a wired user, like I am technically, but that doesn't mean I don't use a headphone jack at all.

Why do you think every phone manufacturer is making their own wireless headphones and earbuds now?

That's obviously to make more money. By removing the jack and selling wireless headphones, they're basically coaxing users into buying wireless headphones, and once people buy these wireless headphones, they enter into a perpetual upgrade cycle just like how they upgrade their smartphones, thus creating a new steady stream of income.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

That pill has less than 4000 responses, and is an online poll that anyone can manipulate. It’s worth less than the hosting costs it’s using.

Most people that use wireless headphones on their phones won’t also use wired headphones on their phone. There’s just no point, and it’s far less convenient.

Your point about making more money is right and wrong. It’s right because they make more money because people want wireless headphones, but the fact that they’re not proprietary means you don’t have to buy your phone manufacturers headphones. I for example don’t use AirPods with my iPhone, I use Sony ones, so apple didn’t make more money from me on headphones. Companies are making more and more wireless headphones because that’s what the market wants.

There’s also the fact that every 3.5mm enthusiast overlooks - a simple $5 adapter on your headphone cable means you can use your wired headphones.