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  • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyztoFairphone@lemmy.ml•Leak: Fairphone 6 launching soon with modernized, modular design for €549
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    16 days ago

    As much as I’d want to, I think it probably wont be inclided, judging from 2 points:

    1. They didnt mention it. Audio jack would really be a convincing feature for the phone, it’d probably be one of the first things to mention, especially when they say that they removed the telephoto camera and thus they are already cutting features. They could make it look as a trade-off, removing a camera, but adding back the audio jack. Being silent about any possibility of it returning is probably on purpose to avoid extra flame.

    2. It says that speakers, usb port, camera etc. are easily replaceable. An audio jack port would be very easily replaced too. Not mentioning probably means that it doesnt exist.

    It’s such a let down, they might be the best phone company and they still are bad. A huge part of the community complains about it and there’s almost noone who would be bothered about having an audio jack port. Greed is making them kind of blind…

  • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyztoFairphone@lemmy.ml•How to design a Fairphone 101
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    16 days ago

    Fairphone Product Manager, Javier Manrique, puts it perfectly, “It’s all about balance. Do we want a bigger battery or smaller display? How do we offer the best cameras possible without breaking the bank for the end-user? There are a variety of factors to consider, and some hard decisions to make.” The mini-jack on the Fairphone 3 is the perfect example. Like we mentioned earlier, user feedback showed us that bulkiness was a bigger concern for the majority of our users, so we had to remove the headphone jack to make the Fairphone 4 thinner.

    Wut… Some people avoid buying phones without audio jack, no audio jack is one of their biggest misses, probably the first thing people complain about fairphone and they say they removed to make the phone slimmer? Was there even ever a poll? Also didnt they use to say in the past that they removed it cuz it was waste or whatever?

    And apart from all these, is making a phone slimmer really a stepcloser to sustainability than adding ~0.3cm³ for an audio jack that wont require buying dongles that stop working, wont require wearing out the usb port, wont require buying wireless earphones (how handy that they also sell wireless earphones, very expensive too) and will make the phone compatible with so much already existing hardware? (I personally have both wireless and wired and I use them both (the wired with a dongle on my phone) for different occasions (when I need mobility I use wireless, when I want good audio quality I used wired and both wired and wireless cost around 20€ and both seem to last for years.)

    Having said that, we’re still not making enough hard decisions, according to Fairphone co-founder, Miquel Ballester. “The Fairphone 5 is a good example of where we tried to do much, without excelling in one area. Learning from that, we’re making more focused choices for our future designs.”

    Hmmm, are they preparing us for cutting more features on the upcoming model?

  • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyztoAsk Android@lemdro.id•Decibel meter app?English
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    17 days ago

    Yo, you’re kind of on the correct path. I think though it probably wont work for you if you dont have a sound amplitute tool already (I know, counter intuitive).

    Step1: for this to work, you need to be in a room where you have a device producing a sound of a certain loudness, use a sound loudness measuring tool and then put that value in the calibration field. By pressing calibrate it will calculate the offset, how far off the current reading of the app is from the actual value, and then it will try to take this into account when measuring sounds (and display the proper values).

    Step2: Here you’d put the offset if you already knew it (if you had done step1 in the past for example). Since you haven’t, you’d have to do step1 instead of step2.

    Step3: yes

    Step4: yes

    Step5: I’d do both probably. Export data either as csv (comma separated values file) or as excel file and I’d also export a screenshot of the graph.

    To conclude, you need a sound measuring tool, a constant sound source (like a phone playing a specific frequency at a certain volume) and a somewhat quiet place to avoid any interference. If you know anyone who could lend you their sound measuring tool to do a calibration it could help. Otherwise, there are cheap sound meters (maybe some Uni-T ones?).

    PS. Even if the readings are correct though, I dont know if they could be considered as evidence, you’d might have to check that first.