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

  • @remon@ani.social
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    45 days ago

    Yeah, I’m open for having a USB-C port replace the AUX port if the other industries play along and no use-cases/features are lost in the process.

    But until that happens, AUX belongs on smartphones.

    • Ek-Hou-Van-BraaiOP
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      05 days ago

      I hope the EU pushes USB-C as the standard for more devices, I have 3 wireless shavers, they all use different charging ports. There is no reason they couldn’t have all been USB-C

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        5 days ago

        I think razors, thoothbrushes, etc are exempt from the standard because their connectors have to be water resistant, which USB-C isn’t. So probably not happening for now.

        • Ek-Hou-Van-BraaiOP
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          05 days ago

          Perhaps, but there are many waterproof USB-C devices that you can swim with, so I don’t think it should be much of an issue.

          • @RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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            14 days ago

            Have you tried swimming while charging said device? Mobiles like my Pixel 7 will disable it’s USB port if it detects water. I doubt anything could have waterproof usb port outside of sealing the port with external mechanism.

      • Koarnine
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        4 days ago

        Look on Aliexpress for adaptors for the shavers, that’s made my life so much easier until I get new ones with usb-c.

        I also have 3 wireless ones that shoulda been usb-c but bought em far before the new mandate.

        Also I thought the rules did apply to more than just phones though I may be mistaken.