You wish to stick two cables in your phone, but sticking the same cables in an adapter first is somehow atrocious for you. This weird aversion of yours is the weirdest shit ever, I swear.
You now need 2 dongles (or a bigger, more expensive dongle) to do something you could previously do with no dongles. Not only you need to buy the dongles, but you also have to remember to take them with you and not lose them. It’s a worse experience.
But your phone doesn’t have a big hole in it that is practically impossible to waterproof, takes all the grime and dust, randomly breaks for no reason, requires a bunch of additional space and electronics, and all that just so small minority of users can avoid having additional three cm of cable on their meter of cable.
It’s a better experience for everyone, and imperceptibly marginally worse for small percentage of people. I can’t overstate how much having a small extension on a phone cable is a non-issue. The best premium one is like 7 euro, 3 cm long, and weights 9 grams.
Audio jacks are easy and cheap to waterproof, way easier to clean than usb-c ports and way sturdier than usb-c ports (in fact, it’s easier to break a usb-c port due to daily headphone use, while I’ve never broken an audio jack, despite abusing some).
They take up space, but many other brands have easily figured it out even in smaller phones. Hell, samsung can fit a whole pen in their phones.
It does not affect people who won’t use it, and I know a lot of people that would benefit from one (including myself). More importantly, it follows fairphone’s supposed ideals of reducing e-waste.
And no, a 7€ dongle is not a good experience, and not a premium thing. For that price, it’s also probably an analog dongle, which already requires the phone to have the extra hardware for the audio jack inside, just without the convenience of the audio jack.
AFAIK it depends on the adapter, some phones have an inbuilt DAC and literally just use pins in the USB-C port for headphones, which means the dongle is literally just wires.
Other phones don’t have that and require the dongle to have its own DAC.
You probably used a simple adapter on a phone which didn’t have those headphone lines in the USB-C port.
You can always just use a usb-c to 3.5mm.
no charging then
They make adapters with several ports, it’s very cheap and doesn’t add much.
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You wish to stick two cables in your phone, but sticking the same cables in an adapter first is somehow atrocious for you. This weird aversion of yours is the weirdest shit ever, I swear.
You now need 2 dongles (or a bigger, more expensive dongle) to do something you could previously do with no dongles. Not only you need to buy the dongles, but you also have to remember to take them with you and not lose them. It’s a worse experience.
But your phone doesn’t have a big hole in it that is practically impossible to waterproof, takes all the grime and dust, randomly breaks for no reason, requires a bunch of additional space and electronics, and all that just so small minority of users can avoid having additional three cm of cable on their meter of cable.
It’s a better experience for everyone, and imperceptibly marginally worse for small percentage of people. I can’t overstate how much having a small extension on a phone cable is a non-issue. The best premium one is like 7 euro, 3 cm long, and weights 9 grams.
Audio jacks are easy and cheap to waterproof, way easier to clean than usb-c ports and way sturdier than usb-c ports (in fact, it’s easier to break a usb-c port due to daily headphone use, while I’ve never broken an audio jack, despite abusing some).
They take up space, but many other brands have easily figured it out even in smaller phones. Hell, samsung can fit a whole pen in their phones.
It does not affect people who won’t use it, and I know a lot of people that would benefit from one (including myself). More importantly, it follows fairphone’s supposed ideals of reducing e-waste.
And no, a 7€ dongle is not a good experience, and not a premium thing. For that price, it’s also probably an analog dongle, which already requires the phone to have the extra hardware for the audio jack inside, just without the convenience of the audio jack.
That doesn’t work on other phones. I’ve tried.
AFAIK it depends on the adapter, some phones have an inbuilt DAC and literally just use pins in the USB-C port for headphones, which means the dongle is literally just wires.
Other phones don’t have that and require the dongle to have its own DAC.
You probably used a simple adapter on a phone which didn’t have those headphone lines in the USB-C port.