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The Fairphone (Gen. 6)

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155 points DavideNL | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 09:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.251s | source
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tonur249 ◴[25 Jun 25 11:06 UTC] No.44375883[source]▶
The tech specs for the Fairphone 6 say the following:

USB-C 2.0 (OTG capable) can be used to connect USB Sticks/SD-Cards/Audio Amplifier/Network-adapters directly

I was really looking forward to use this with a pair of display glasses, like the XREAL One Pro, but this seems like the Fairphone 6 might not support display output? That's sad. Especially since the Fairphone 5 had this in their tech specs:

USB-C 3.0 (OTG capable) can be used to connect USB Sticks/SD-Cards/display (also Android™ desktop mode)/Camera/Audio Amplifier/Network-adapters directly

But maybe it was not used enough?

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mhitza ◴[25 Jun 25 11:16 UTC] No.44375949[source]▶
> But maybe it was not used enough?

Likely not used enough, yet. It would be premature to drop support this quick, as Google seems to just now move Android in the direction (DEX by Samsung is the same thing, but it's Samsung specific).

At the same time, only last year I saw a device in which I'd "dock" my phone (the Nexdock looked reasonably priced) and having both a phone and the steam deck with desktop mode would make such a device more useful.

I know you're talking strictly from the perspective of display glasses, but convergence is the main category under which I'd classify this feature.

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1. tonur249 ◴[25 Jun 25 14:08 UTC] No.44377534[source]▶
I agree, display with desktop mode on mobile devices could be useful. I'd really like the idea of using a phone as an everything device at some point, but there are a lot of things that are not lining up, with missing compatibility with external displays being a huge blocker.