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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste (www.bbc.com)

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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste::In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

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[-] xnileap@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

I've been using the same pair of Sony XB50AP wired headphones for over 7 years now. It works fine (although not great) even after going through couple washing machine cycles. Meanwhile my wireless WH1000XM3 broke after 2 years of use.

Also I own an Android with no headphone jack, so I have to use a USB-C to 3.5mm dongle. And I can feel it's slowly destroying the type C port's connectors on my phone everytime I plug the dongle in, making the headphone connection sometimes not even recognizeable on my phone.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

The WH-1000XM3 have repairable batteries. You can buy them online, and pop them in after undoing two screws

[-] xnileap@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the headsup but mine broke because of something wrong inside the device, probably something wrong with the pcb (might be water corrosion or something). Plus the headband on WH1000XM3 is just so easy to broke. I've replace both side of the headband just because it's designed very poorly.

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