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Fairphone Fairbuds launch with replaceable batteries, titanium drivers and ANC (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I'd much prefer a 3.5mm jack

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (3 children)

There are a plethora of cable earphones.
I don't understand why people complain about wireless.
You're not the target demographic.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, wired headphones are everywhere.

My wireless earbuds were such a game changer I'll never go back, I don't know why so much hate.

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[+] [email protected] -15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Seriously, people act like there aren't solutions to that "problem" that aren't basically identically inconvenient to how it was before you needed an inline usb c to 3.5 mm adapter.

To preempt those that are gonna say "the adapter is inconvenient..," no, the 3.5 mm jack that takes up space in my pocket that is unused 100% of the time is the inconvenience. You want a jack. You can have one. You get to have the inconvenience that goes along with it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The adapter IS the inconvenience.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Disagree. The 3.5 mm jack that takes up space in my pocket that is unused 100% of the time is the inconvenience. You want a jack. You can have one. You get to have the inconvenience that goes along with it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Just because you don't find yourself needing a given port doesn't mean no one should have one.

My USB c port broke from being cycled too many times with a stupid headphone dongle, and now I can't charge it with a cable OR use my god damn headphones. I like my headphones, its obnoxious that I can't just plug them into the device I want to listen to. I get it's not relevant to you but it is relevant to many other people which is why so many people are still bitching about it years after almost every manufacturer has removed the port. Every single day its frustrating I don't have one. Its frustrating when my friends want to play music in my car and they don't have one.

I got my headphones for Christmas and I LOVE THEM, but I can't even use them with my phone :(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well I've got a solution for you!

Just insert this adapter into the 3.5mm jack and it will be blocked for you. It'll no longer be wasted space because this adapter is a useful place to store several grains of rice for a snack.

Unfortunately you do lose a feature as a result of using this adapter, it will stop one of the speakers from working and degrade your audio quality.

But you shouldn't complain about anything removing a feature, or degrading your audio quality. You've got a new feature of being able to store rice!

You can even buy special fairphone sustainable rice from us. With only a small 300% mark up but an incredible 80% of the sustainability of already available rice. It comes in green!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The fuck you talking about.

The complaint is "phones don't have headphones jacks"

Presuming I was on your side,

Just insert this adapter into the 3.5mm jack and it will be blocked for you. It'll no longer be wasted space because this adapter is a useful place to store several grains of rice for a snack.

Homie, you got rice storage with the old jacks. An adapter doesn't introduce this problem.

Unfortunately you do lose a feature as a result of using this adapter, it will stop one of the speakers from working and degrade your audio quality.

Homie, this is how headphones work. You plug them in and the speakers stop working. If your audio quality is dropping something is wrong.

But you shouldn't complain about anything removing a feature, or degrading your audio quality. You've got a new feature of being able to store rice!

Homie, again the data jack on USB C is more than fast enough to push FLAC through. If you're losing quality it's not the architecture.

You can even buy special fairphone sustainable rice from us. With only a small 300% mark up but an incredible 80% of the sustainability of already available rice. It comes in green!

This is you projecting. While this is on an article about fair phone, I'm only here to inform you that your nonsense complaint about 3.5 mm jacks is silly. It is valid, sure, but fucking silly anyways.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I'm sorry, I started joking because you weren't being serious either.

Wait, you were being serious?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

This!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

You're being downvoted, but yours is a legitimate request.

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[–] [email protected] 162 points 7 months ago (7 children)

The comments on this post are entirelly missing the point. Jesus christ lemmy. Yes, we know you like 3.5 mm jacks. That is not the point. The point is that FairPhone launched earphones with ANC with replaceable batteries. This is good!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not when they're twice the price is decent Sonys

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Can you replace the battery at the Sonys?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can get a decent pair of sonys for €150? The conversion rate must be better than I thought!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

We're allowed to want both.

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[+] [email protected] -21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Counterpoints:

Good IEM-s don't really need ANC. If the silicone tip doesn't isolate enough you can use foam tips that basically function like hearing protection earplugs.
No battery is even better than replaceable battery.
Wired IEM-s never get obsolete. At worst you'll need to replace the silicone tips from time to time, or the cable and today even 20€ Chinese IEM-s have replaceable cables. With good care wired IEM-s can last decades.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So you basically said there's no need for fair wired headphones because cheap 20€ chinese wired ones perfectly serve that market?

Even better that fairphone builds true wireless earbuds with all those fair features, because there is no alternative there already.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

That's a strawman and you know it. OP basically said that we want 3.5mm jacks.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you don't think you need ANC you've never experienced good ANC, even the best passive noise isolation won't quiet down the sound of a full cafeteria or bus.

No wired iems will never be obsolete, but I will just be leaving them at my desk where the downsides over wireless are less.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

I've used passive noise isolation earbuds that work better than any ANC. This one time I took them off after a long flight, only to realize that a toddler was crying behind me.

Edit: lol at the downvotes! https://maxrockearbuds.com/

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