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Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable

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401 points Bluestein | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 15:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.244s | source
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Spunkie ◴[23 Jun 25 17:23 UTC] No.44357974[source]▶
Still no headphone jack makes this a nonstarter, lame.
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OkayPhysicist ◴[23 Jun 25 21:53 UTC] No.44360560[source]▶
How often are you listening to music on your phone while it's charging? (because otherwise you can always just attach an adapter onto your headphones to make it USB-C). Seems like a weird hang up.
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1. grep_name ◴[26 Jun 25 19:22 UTC] No.44390447[source]▶
I felt like it was a weird hangup too until I realized that the lifespan of my phones has dropped to a third since that damn jack disappeared. Every single phone since then the point of failure has been a worn out / chewed up USB port.

Turns out, when you have to use the same port for all music streaming as well as charging, you end up using that port (in my case) something like 1000% more often, and it absolutely demolishes the phone.