Fairphone 5 - The Ars Technica Review

Hate to be that person but no headphone jack for a sustainable phone?

With no headphone jack thats gonna be a no for me dawg. How can they promote sustainability and then design a product that is going to be unusable in 5 years max. That's just the reality of all wireless headphones. The battery will fail to hold charge and they will become useless. Not the truth for wired headphones. Goodwired headphones will last as long as you're able to take care of them usually

Edit: if anyone could give me one good real reason to remove the headphone jack? It's not about the alternatives it's why remove it in the first place? And the space saving aspect of it has long been debunked.

2028 Baseband support ... so 5 ish years of full support. Which is pretty good, why not just say that?

Man I'm super interested in this hardware, if GrapheneOS supported FP it would be a no brainer for me.

So the specs seem pretty good. Some are equivalent to the Pixel 7, some a little less, some a bit better like the selfie camera. But the pixel is quite a bit cheaper, nearly $200 retail. I wonder if they're considering making a cheaper version equivalent to the Pixel a series.

Will be interesting to see a comparison of the fp4 and the pf5!

Wait, people are scared of industrial components? They’re usually the most reliable

Now if only I could buy it.

Specs aren't too bad, doesn't sound like a bad mig range phone and I might actually consider this if it wasn't that they don't sell it here 😔

Seems really awesome and promising however I'm not really trying to have an outdated computer (read: phone) at 600 euro. Not even available in north America right now.

I like what they're trying to do, however 10 years is an eternity in the tech world and if this company doesn't sell enough phones - likely enough of this phone, then whose to say this company will even be around in 10 years, much less have a dev team competent enough to take over support where Qualcomm left off?

This is one of those huge promises that manufacturers make, with little to no evidence of being able to back it up.

Anyone with an older model know if there’s been a way to add wireless (qi) charging?

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Ah, another post on a great new addition to the Fairphone lineup, another post where the top comments are complaining about because there is no headphone jack, they won't consider it.

Y'all seriously have your priorities messed up if that's what keeps you from supporting Fairphone. If having a device with a headphone jack is that important to you, invest in a dedicated audio player. You can get some with high quality DAC's and more. But seriously, y'all need to cope about the Fairphone not having a single feature you want being a total deal breaker. That's honestly petty...

Sounda great, but like all previous Fairphones there's no reason for the vast majority of the people on Earth to be interested in this because it's only available in Europe.

Even if I do import it here in AU; I don't get a real warranty, I pay huge important taxes (or a markup to a reseller), and I have to go through just as much trouble for any replacement parts I may need.