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Fairphone Fairbuds launch with replaceable batteries, titanium drivers and ANC

www.notebookcheck.net Fairphone Fairbuds launch with replaceable batteries, titanium drivers and ANC

With completely wireless earbuds, the rule is: when the battery fails, they have to be disposed of. Not so with the Fairbuds, that allow you to replace batteries in just a few seconds. Combined with a repairable design, the earbuds should therefore have an extremely long lifetime.

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Really happy to see replaceable batteries! It's a wear item and guaranteed to brick your device after a number of years if they aren't replaceable.
The comments on this post are entirelly missing the point. Jesus christ lemmy. Yes, we know you like 3.5 mm jacks. That is not the point. The point is that FairPhone launched earphones with ANC with replaceable batteries. This is good!
Let's not forget this here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRdL0StldJM

Wired headphones do not have the need for replaceable batteries.
Buds can be used without an app, but they really should open source it if they really care about long term sustainability.
> only support AAC and SBC codecs

> available for 149

Eh.
Please, just give us back the headphone jacks!

Or let us amputate the legs of techbros (they're obsolete in the world of cars and electric wheelchairs).
Did you guys notice how many ventors that website shares your data with??
Every time it comes up I must lament the switch to screens too tall to watch content, the decision to remove wired 3.5mm jacks in order to drive sales of wireless headphones, the switch to increasingly fewer physical buttons. No more IR blaster.
Is their app open source?
If only they shipped to the US...at least, I didn't see that option.
I'd much prefer a 3.5mm jack
Fairbuds: replaceable batteries

Fairerbuds: open source app

Fairestbuds: open source firmware
here's hoping the next Fairphone finally launches new in the US.

Really would love to finally use one.
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
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.
Nice, how make one with the earbuds attached to each other with a wire and I’ll buy it for sure!
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.
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.
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.
looks kinda cool. will probably get them
They going to get all my business.
If they launch a phone similar to zenphone 10. I'll def buy it.
I've been looking for buds with replaceable batteries ever since my first pair degraded. Good to see FairPhone offering one that does it this time!
I have Samsung Bluetooth earbuds that I have had for a few years and they work great but I rarely use them. I rarely listen to music through headphones. If I were to buy a new pair I may consider that ones from Pine.
Bluetooth is okay. But, I wish they offer USB c dongle connection like JBL or Anker. I hate pairing
They got rid of the headphone jack for this PoS?
wireless charging is not supported

This is 2024, right? Heckling aside, I'll look for the next release.
They're only showing the battery replace in the CASE though, do the headphones themselves not use batteries?
that’s cool, ill never buy silicon tips again tho. why is apple the only one making real ear buds?
Only 899,- and your first born kid. One could think it's on purpose...

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