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's headphones, but its a start!
Mine broke yesterday. The headband base part unfortunately has a weak point and can snap out of nowhere under very minimal force (e.g. taking the headphones off your head, as happened to me). Hopefully it’s an issue Fairphone has looked into and fixed, mine were a secondhand pair purchased a year ago so I’m not sure if there have been changes made since (seems maybe not, based on this recent thread). The replacement part appears to be exactly the same, but unfortunately because I’m in Australia it’s too much money and effort to get two (it snapped at the same time on both sides) sent out via parcel forwarding (which, to be fair, I knew when I bought them). Hopefully I can 3D print some replacement parts because they are really good headphones otherwise, especially for the price I paid.
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you killed my hopes so damn quickly.
Damn this was quite literally the only selling point. They’re bulky, overpriced, fake environmentalism, and not good for privacy. All they could possibly have going over GOS is a jack. Fuck me
I’m continually appalled at the state of the global android scene just kill it off already. Everyone become Chinese
fake environmentalism
How so?
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bulky
who needs ultra slim phones? these are not bulky at all
and not good for privacy
what?
What about Canada, we are now a sperated market even if neighbors.
yeah same
How long do they support updates for? Google has heen trying to sunset my perfectly fine phone for the last 3 years.
They weren’t before? What changed?
I think they weren’t shipping, so people had to find a reseller or something like that
So all that changed is they ticked a box to include “US” deliveries on their ecommerce platform? I’ll never understand why that was so difficult
honestly, it’s probably more than that. you don’t just “tick a box” to send commercial packages to places… like, did you hear about VAT?
Vat is paid by the customer. In international shipping, the shipping company collects it.
Any decent ecommerce platform will automatically add the vat to the order, and it’ll be collected by the 3PL provider. It’s not really a business decision. Still just a box to tick
I mean, they might’ve needed to get FCC approvals and other things to sell in the US
That’s not how the FCC works. They don’t approve things. You follow their standards. If you don’t, they fine you. There is no approval process for devices that must comply wit FCC, UKCA, or CE.
that’s literally not true. you have to get a license to operate radio devices in the US.
companies must get FCC certification for their devices to legally be sold here
To operate. Not to sell.
It literally is true. I make and sell electronics to all three markets. There is no approval process for selling devices.
That seems a little pedantic. They couldn’t very well sell a phone here that doesn’t operate. Functionally you do need certification
Their phones might be good, but don’t buy their earbuds/fairbuds. The bluetooth connection is so bad they are virtually useless (unless you carry your phone in a chest pocket).
That’s where the pinebuds would be a decent substitute.
This is good to know. I’m looking at potentially getting new NC ear buds. I have Bose NC 700 over ear headphones, however want earbuds. I was looking at the fair buds, but I wanna be able to walk away from my phone if needed.
now come to canada
I was just starting to think that I might need a new phone soon, now I know I’ll be looking forward to this!
