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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Nvm replaceable batteries, I keep buying 2-3 pairs of ear buds a year because I keep forgetting them in my pants when I wash them, or I give them a pat down and don't feel them inside of them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My wife wanted me to buy her a pair of air pods.

I'm like, get a pair of headphones to last you more than a month, then we'll talk.

I can't tell you how many pairs of cheap earbuds we've gone through. Either lost or eaten (damn dog). Almost always just the right earbud. Never the left. I have so many lefts left.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Fairbuds: replaceable batteries

Fairerbuds: open source app

Fairestbuds: open source firmware

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (20 children)

Wired 3.5mm jack.

Hear me out. I don’t use Bluetooth headphones. They don’t last the commute and work day.

With a jack you can listen and charge you phone at the same time and never worry about charging your headphones/iem.

If I need to use Bluetooth for connection I still can but overall better battery life

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (29 children)

Nice, how make one with the earbuds attached to each other with a wire and I’ll buy it for sure!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Cool. Their first gen Fair buds were kinda pointless. The headphones though, the Fair buds XL are excellent. I bought a pair recently and I love them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Now I just wish that they would bring their phone to a US provider that is not T-Mobile. I can't buy their phone until it runs on a network that I can use.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

looks kinda cool. will probably get them

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Awesome, but I'm skeptical. Not because it's Fairphone, but because previous bad experiences.

I bought Sony buds, after reading loads of reviews and those were the best! They cost me around 300 and what I got was just shit.

I (still) own a number of lg 800 Bluetooth headsets (those with a thing you wear around your neck) that cost me 50 bucks each, that have better audio quality, louder audio, better noise cancellation, are more comfortable, and after over 4 years still have a battery life of around 10 hours where those huge ass Sony ones cut out new after like 3-4 hours and they died after 1,5 years. I think those wearable bugs are just too small to be any good at all.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They going to get all my business.

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