The New Fairbuds: Nine things you need to know
Replaceable batteries. Sweat and moisture resistant. Hybrid ANC. Introducing the new Fairbuds. Premium sound. Designed to last.
The price tag is pretty important.
For my fellow maple syrup gatherers, it's $219.12 Canadian.
Availability is also pretty important. But you have to go through most of the checkout process before you find out it's only available in Europe.
All three of them
Lol, it's funny how a product like this will likely get a solid 4 star rating, meanwhile I'll find another that is better, has better reviews, and costs easily a quarter of this
I'll save North Americans a click: they're not available here.
I respect what they are trying to do here. I just replaced the batteries in my Sony WF-1000XM4 earbuds... it was not a trivial process.
Fuck Sony overpriced crap. I'm still salty with their v2 update that damaged the battery.
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Glad there's a pair of wireless earbuds with replaceable batteries now, but it's pretty obvious that they only removed the headphone jack on their phone so they could sell more of these. i don't want to encourage scummy business practices like this from fairphone of all businesses, especially when all it does is worsen the user experience and create more waste.
Edit for clarity
Edit 2: am i actually in the wrong here? People seem to disagree with me pretty strongly.
Edit 3: it seems like my comments here aren't showing up in other instances. Something weird going on.
You're not wrong, lots of people on Lemmy.world just really kiss up to fairphone because of their perceived betterness in other ways. Just because they claim to be doing some things better doesn't mean they aren't doing anything wrong or scummy.
Also I bet there's quite a few apple fanboys here who support copying apple in removing features, for some strange reason.
Alright, i thought i was going crazy for a minute there.
it’s pretty obvious that they only removed the headphone jack on their phone so they could sell more of these
Why is anytime when anything by Fairphone is posted, everyone acts as if they were the first and only company who did that sort of thing? They'd keep the jack and sell wired headphones if that was such a massive business.
I dunno, people seem to have a real hard-on for pissing over Fairphone, in a totally weird way. And this travelled over from Reddit. And I know the majority of /r/android has long been Samsung fanbois, but sometimes it gets ridiculous. 😅
Back to the actual topic at hand, wow they're chunkers. Ouff. Since I have a comparatively small head these would look pretty weird on me I imagine. But OTOH, damn is it impressive to build earbuds - a device usually filled with glue - with a user-replaceable battery. I kinda want to support them assuming I need new headphones any time soon.