Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017

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Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017
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Fairphone?

I thought the newest one ditched the headphone jack?

Yo, if they ditched the headphone jack, that's wack.

They had to, I'm guessing. At this point nobody is manufacturing headphone jack hardware for smartphones.

I'm pretty sure that DACs and 3.5mm jacks are still being manufactured

Then it's likely cheaper to make a bluetooth headphones phone than include a 3.5mm jack? Or they could just be greedy, although I would hope FairPhone won't turn to the dark side so soon.

Excuse me, this is meant to be an admin account for c/OpenTTD@lemmy.zip so I'll have to return to whence I came.

I'm thinking Fairphone saw the trend and decided to make a profit. I don't see how removing headphone jacks is beneficial for the consumer.

You're probably right, there are reasons stopping them, it's not necessarily a conspiracy of phone makers.

Just got the notification for a post you made 10 minutes after mine...

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It did? Sad to see even fairphone did it

They already got rid of it with their previous model years ago.

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