Fairphone presenting a tablet on 09.04? (no, actually earbuds)

2 years ago by datendefekt to c/fairphone

I just got an email from Fairphone that something new is coming on the 09.05 - a whole new category.

My hot take is on a tablet. What do you think?

Edit: so the whole new category is earbuds. Somewhat disappointing, but replaceable batteries for earbuds are nice, I guess.

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Gieselbrecht 32 points 2 years ago

Hmm "turn up the Volume" sounds like a speaker maybe? They do offer headphones already.

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datendefekt 34 points 2 years ago

Bluetooth speakers? That would be a perfectly logical, reasonable and absolutely disappointing suggestion.

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Ross_audio 1 point 2 years ago

People really need to give up on fairphone if they start selling more battery powered Bluetooth accessories.

They're meant to reduce landfill but they've been trash since bringing out the fairphone 4

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JustEnoughDucks 13 points 2 years ago

Yeah they offered wireless earbuds for all of a year and a half before shutting it down an pulling the product, just to release wireless headphones which haven't been pulled from the shelves quite yet.

Maybe this is their next speaker in a line of barely-supported short lived audio products.

I am a little salty over their decision to remove a headphone jack from the fp5 in order to push their shitty audio projects that they drop in a few years anyway...

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Gieselbrecht 5 points 2 years ago

Oh I didn't know about the earburs. The FP4 also doesn't have a 3.5mm headphone jack.

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lemann 4 points 2 years ago

push their shitty audio projects that they drop in a few years anyway...

I was under the impression those were released following a pine64-like model, where the intention is the community designs and supports custom firmware for the buds XL to replace Fairphone's stock firmware?

According to current reverse engineering efforts on the FP forums the buds XL are running some generic Qualcomm firmware (assumedly on a CSR102 series SoC?), which is flashed to the headphones via Fairphone's Fairbuds app

https://forum.fairphone.com/...

We will inevitably see how long these are supported for, as I'm planning to get one at some point...

As for the original Fairbuds TWS I have no idea what they were thinking there 🤦‍♂️ fairtrade plastic doesn't carry much weight if the product is still very likely going to end up as unrecyclable ewaste

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jol 3 points 2 years ago

The headphones are fantastic. The earbuds on the other hand are medicore irreparable e-trash. If i didn't get them for free with my FP4 i would have asked forna refund.

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