I see a lot of people complaining that the Fairphone 6 doesn’t have an Aux jack.
Just use an adapter cable.
A 3.5mm Aux jack takes up a significant amount of space just to connect a few wires that could be connected through USB-C anyway, that space could be used for a bigger battery.
Even if there was a good enough reason to keep Aux it should be 2.5mm Aux and not the usual 3.5 as it does exactly the same thing but uses less space
Aux can only carry two audio channels, if I wanted to plug my phone into a 5.1 Surround sounds system or something alike, Aux would be limiting.
USB-C has 24 pins, so it won’t have that issue.
Yeah, I’m open for having a USB-C port replace the AUX port if the other industries play along and no use-cases/features are lost in the process.
But until that happens, AUX belongs on smartphones.
I hope the EU pushes USB-C as the standard for more devices, I have 3 wireless shavers, they all use different charging ports. There is no reason they couldn’t have all been USB-C
I think razors, thoothbrushes, etc are exempt from the standard because their connectors have to be water resistant, which USB-C isn’t. So probably not happening for now.
Perhaps, but there are many waterproof USB-C devices that you can swim with, so I don’t think it should be much of an issue.
Have you tried swimming while charging said device? Mobiles like my Pixel 7 will disable it’s USB port if it detects water. I doubt anything could have waterproof usb port outside of sealing the port with external mechanism.
Look on Aliexpress for adaptors for the shavers, that’s made my life so much easier until I get new ones with usb-c.
I also have 3 wireless ones that shoulda been usb-c but bought em far before the new mandate.
Also I thought the rules did apply to more than just phones though I may be mistaken.