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I see a lot of people complaining that the Fairphone 6 doesn't have an Aux jack.

Just use an adapter cable.

A 3.5mm Aux jack takes up a significant amount of space just to connect a few wires that could be connected through USB-C anyway, that space could be used for a bigger battery.

Even if there was a good enough reason to keep Aux it should be 2.5mm Aux and not the usual 3.5 as it does exactly the same thing but uses less space

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Used for a bigger battery? Lol. OP has never taken a phone apart. Aux port might get you another 20mah. Out of that 4,415mah battery.

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I have seen so many people say the 3.5mm port takes up room, and it is such a crock of shit. The space it takes up is practically non existent and it costs almost nothing implement.

Like literally if I'm making a custom circuit board, or even bread boarding, with a microcontroller of all the IO currently on phones a 3.5mm jack is probably the cheapest and easiest thing to implement. It's a hell of a lot less of both than say a finger print scanner and I don't see anyone calling for those to be removed despite the fact that many people don't use that feature.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)

I don't use the fingerprint scanner cause cops can force you to unlock your phone by fingerprint, but not by pin or pattern.

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago
[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Analog ports all the way.