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Aux doesn't belong on smartphones anymore. (piefed.social)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The jump from Aux to USB-C is a even bigger improvement than Tape to CD.

The use case of the AUX port is to listen something via a wire. USB-C doesn't offer any improvements here (othen than having to carry one less cable in the longrun, maybe).

I think one is enough, but if you MUST have two ports, than USB-C offers so much more that Aux can’t

Sure, it might enable totally new features. But those are not really relevant when we're discussing the removal of the aux port. That's like trying to make an argument for CDs over tape by pointing out that you can use CDs as a mirror. Sure you can ... but not really the "imrpovment" I was looking for.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

Aux can only carry two audio channels, if I wanted to plug my phone into a 5.1 Surround sounds system or something alike, Aux would be limiting.

USB-C has 24 pins, so it won't have that issue.