With completely wireless earbuds, the rule is: when the battery fails, they have to be disposed of. Not so with the Fairbuds, that allow you to replace batteries in just a few seconds. Combined with a repairable design, the earbuds should therefore have an extremely long lifetime.
  • @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    65•1 year ago

    And get caught on everything.

    I can’t be bothered with the inconvenience of wires. Bluetooth quality is good enough for what I need it for, and the convenience of simply putting them on gives me sound is hard to beat.

    I have a pair of noise-canceling Bluetooth headphones (not buds) from 2008 that still work. Battery life isn’t what it was, but whatever - they work fine for how I use them (as one pair of several). I could replace the battery if I felt like it, just not worth the effort.

    But I get that some people prefer the wired for their use-case.

    • @ShortN0te@lemmy.ml
      53•1 year ago

      The simple point is, no one forces you to use wires. Bluetooth has been a thing for decades.

      But basically every (yes some exceptions) company that makes phones forced you to use wireless ones.

      And in the case of Fairphone it is just simply hypocritical.

      • @rainynight65@feddit.de
        0•1 year ago

        Strange how I’ve been using wired headphones with my phones until two years ago, even though I haven’t had a phone with a headphone jack since 2017…

      • @MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world
        -9•1 year ago

        You can get 3.5mm to (whatever usb port) that will as far as I know work in every phone. Just because it doesn’t have a dedicated port doesn’t mean you can’t wire in your headphones.

        I much prefer it this way, if you want to wire you can, if you don’t you don’t have to have an extra useless port on your device.

        Edit

        Lol, bring on your down votes. I bet if you surveyed a hundred random people on the street if they really want a headphone port on your phone and are committed to using it you’d get less than ten people. It’s not realistic to support every legacy hardware function on a modern device because a few tech enthusiasts want it, especially when there’s a very easy way to support it.

        • @toastal@lemmy.ml
          2•1 year ago

          You’re supposing every tech/audio enthusiast here wants the same shitty setup as the masses? The fact is there is basically one brand still offering headphone jacks in a flagship that you can unlock … where the point of Android was all the delicious innovations of each OEM. But they saw how profitable selling branded earbuds could be so now you have next to 0 options.

    • @ActionHank@sopuli.xyz
      9•1 year ago

      No one’s disputing the utility of wireless. But it’s not harming anyone to have a device with both mini-jack and bluetooth; the way it was for nearly 2 decades without any complaint.