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      1 year ago

      Copying my reply to this same point from elsewhere:

      Those phones were presumably glued together and not as repairable as the Fairphone is. Which is very useful, but does lower your waterproof rating, hence the need to compensate elsewhere.

      I really feel like people are too quick to assume malice, generally. Often, there are just trade-offs with no clearly-right answer, and it’s not obvious to folks like us on the outside what those trade-offs are.

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          1 year ago

          Could you also replace the screen, camera’s, USB port, loudspeaker and earpiece with nothing but a screwdriver?

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            1 year ago

            I don’t see how is exclusion of headphone jack going to help with water resistance if everything is held with screws anyway.

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                1 year ago

                If they figured out a way to keep it out of usb c hole then it isn’t a rocket science to keep the water from going in through headphone jack.

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                  1 year ago

                  What I’m assuming happens is that no way is fool-proof, so they managed to limit the amount going into the USB port, and they’d be able to limit the amount going into the jack, but not by enough to tip it over the edge of the rating.

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      1 year ago

      Ok, Fairphone lied I guess. You obviously no better than the manufacturers. It’s not like other phones with those jacks likely cost more to water proof those jacks or anything. Everything is always exactly the same and doesn’t cost extra to do anything differently.

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        1 year ago

        Judging by how much phones cost I expect them to be water resistant and have headphone jack. And besides, Fairphone said they removed it because it was a “point of failure” while conveniently releasing their own wireless headphones.